The Nose at the Met Opera

Shostakovich's The Nose

This week's broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera takes on The Nose, Dmitri Shostakovich's 1930 opera. It tells the story of a bureaucrat in St. Petersburg named Kovalyov who wakes up one day to discover his nose is missing.

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The Recorder Less Traveled

This week on Q2 with Terrance McKnight, we hear trailblazing recorder player Michala Petri perform Vagn Holmboe's Concerto for Recorder, String Orchestra, Celeste and Vibraphone.

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Lillian Hellman at the Movies

In this week's Movies on the Radio, host David Garland presents music from films written by or about American writer Lillian Hellman. The scores for these films were composed with great sensitivity by some of Hollywood's finest.

Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine in The Children’s Hour (1961)

A Bach Birthday at Oberlin

This week's Pipedreams features students from the Oberlin Conservatory and musicologist Steve Plank. Host Michael Barone celebrates with live recordings at Warner Hall.

1974 Flentrop/Warner Concert Hall, Oberlin Conservatory, OH

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Albrecht Mayer

WQXR presents the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performing live at Carnegie Hall with Albrecht Mayer joining the orchestra for Strauss' Concerto for Oboe in D Major. Hear the concert, including David Garland's interview with Mayer.

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

George Jellinek's Vocal Scene

In 1969 George Jellinek created The Vocal Scene, a weekly, one-hour show was devoted to opera and great opera singers. In Jellinek's honor, WQXR is revisiting prized segments from the archives of The Vocal Scene.

WQXR Music Director and host of The Vocal Scene, George Jellinek in the early 1970s.

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