Programs
WQXR Daily Schedule
13 Days When Music Changed Forever
The San Francisco Symphony’s radio project, The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever, is about musical revolutions —about the composers, compositions, and musical movements that changed the way people heard, or thought about, music. Each program will explore the historical backdrop and the musical precursors to the revolutionary change, as well as examine the aftershock and the lasting influence of that moment in music history.
All Ears with Terrance McKnight
All Ears with Terrance McKnight is a weekly show about musical discovery. Covering a wide range of styles, genres and periods, the show celebrates the diverse musical passions of its host, Terrance McKnight, as well as occasional guests -- including performers, composers, choreographers, critics and others. As music and ideas are experienced side by side, the power of music to transform is revealed and celebrated.
All Symphony Stream
WQXR's All Symphony Stream features an eclectic mix of symphonic music spanning styles and time periods. This stream will be live on WQXR.org and mobile devices through November 1st.
Annie Bergen
Annie Bergen's reports on film, music, theater, books and art have won several awards, including an "Outstanding Feature Story" award from the NYSBA. She has interviewed over 300 arts personalities and is now featured on various WQXR programs.
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Around Broadway
Every Wednesday morning, Jeff Spurgeon finds out what's new on Broadway and beyond from Charles Isherwood, theater critic for The New York Times.
The Arts File
Each week,
Aspen in August
Beat the summer heat this August and come with WQXR to Colorado, for a sampling of great classical music. Since 1949, fans of classical music and some of the world’s most celebrated performers have flocked to the Aspen Music Festival. This year, more than 300 musical events will take place over 8 weeks, making it America’s premier classical music festival. WQXR will present highlights from these performances in a one hour program, hosted by our own Terrance McKnight.
Beethoven!
WQXR celebrates Beethoven Awareness Month in November with a 24-hour stream dedicated to his works. Stream will end December 1st.
The Best of The Vocal Scene
WQXR is pleased to present a special summer series reviving the much beloved The Vocal Scene with George Jellinek.
Carnegie Hall Live
In partnership with American Public Media and Carnegie Hall, WQXR presents a season-long series of twelve national broadcasts live from Carnegie Hall presenting a range of orchestras, small ensembles and soloists including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, and Lang Lang. Each broadcast will also include artist interviews during intermission, live chats at WQXR.org, and questions from Twitter (use the hashtag #CHLive).
Chamber Music Society
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s 2011-2012 radio season features 26 one-hour programs drawn from live performances recorded during the Chamber Music Society’s 2010-2011 season.
Choral Fixation
Choral Fixation brings you the best in choral music, by transporting you across centuries of music-making and the rich choral traditions of varying countries.
The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle
The Choral Mix with Kent Tritle explores the vibrant and transformative world of choral music in New York and beyond.
Clayelle Dalferes
Clayelle Dalferes hosts WQXR on Weekend afternoons.
Concerts from The Frick Collection
For over sixty years, the series Concerts from The Frick Collection has delighted listeners with the finest in keyboard recitals, all manner of chamber groups, and groundbreaking early music ensembles. Many of the century's greatest artists have performed in the 175-seat music room at the Frick Collection, the former Upper East Side residence of industrialist Henry Clay Frick.
Cued Up
Cued Up is a show on Q2 Music devoted to New Music concerts recorded live in New York City. Cued Up connects listeners with today's vibrant New Music scene, offering a way for local audiences to re-experience and international audiences to discover the dynamic music of New York City.
David Garland
David Garland hosts Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons on WQXR.
Elliott Forrest
Elliott Forrest is currently the weekend morning host on WQXR. Since his return to WQXR in 2002, he’s hosted and produced live events from Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl and The Jerome L. Greene Space, among others.
Exploring Music
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is an exciting daily radio program that delves into a wide assortment of topics in classical music. Each five-program series builds off a single theme ranging from composer biographies to explorations of various cultures, musical styles, and time periods.
From the Top
Broadcast on nearly 250 stations nationwide to an audience of more than 700,000 listeners each week, From the Top is one of the most popular classical music programs on radio.
Hammered!
Say hello to Hammered!, Q2 Music's hour-long, weekday program devoted the extraordinary breadth and ever-evolving repertoire of music for keyboard. From concert grand to disklavier, synthesizer to clavichord, prepared piano to toy piano, Hammered! shares musical colors from ebony to ivory and every shade in between.
Jeff Spurgeon
Jeff Spurgeon has been the morning host of WQXR since 2006. He joined WQXR in 1997 and during his 30-year career in radio, Spurgeon has been an announcer, reporter, newscaster, interviewer and producer
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Hailed as Southern California's leading performance arts institution and today under the dynamic leadership of 28 year old Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel the Philharmonic is recognized as one of the world's outstanding orchestras. Recently when Dudamel inaugurated his Philharmonic tenure at the Hollywood Bowl a crowd of eighteen thousand people greeted him with a hollering and stamping pop-star ovation!
Mad About Music
Award-winning publisher and Mahler conductor Gilbert Kaplan is Mad About Music. Kaplan, host of this revealing show, explores the emotional power of music on the lives of celebrities through interviews and hand-picked recordings.
Matters of Economy
James B. Stewart, who writes the “Common Sense” column in the Business Day section of The New York Times, brings plain-spoken insights on current economic and business matters to WQXR listeners each Friday at 8:30 am.
The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase
The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase is a WQXR weekly radio show that since 1978 has sought out and displayed the talents of young emerging artists.
Metropolitan Opera
For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in this country. The broadcasts debuted on December 25, 1931, with Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and are now the longest-running classical music series in American broadcast history.
Midge Woolsey
Midge Woolsey became an announcer at WQXR in 1993. She is currently the midday host. Midge has hosted many television specials for WNET including The Three Tenors Live in Paris and The PBS Millennium project.
Movies on the Radio
Saturday nights at 9:00 pm, host David Garland presents new and old film scores, emphasizing the delights and uniqueness of movie music, and sharing his encyclopedic knowledge of the field.
Nadia Sirota
Violist, former WNYC Overnight Music host and New Music black-belt Nadia Sirota hosts weekdays from 12-4, a.m. and p.m., on WQXR’s internet station, Q2 Music. Every week, Nadia Sirota explores the catalysts and breakthroughs of today’s diverse and thriving New Music scene, with an additional feature, Hope Springs Atonal, at 1, a.m. and p.m., devoted to the high-octane world of post-tonal music.
Naomi Lewin
Naomi Lewin is the weekday afternoon host on WQXR, and the host of WQXR’s bi-weekly podcast Conducting Business. Before arriving at WQXR, Lewin was the midday host at WGUC, Cincinnati’s classical public radio station.
The New Canon
The New Canon on Q2 Music is an online chat and listening party springing from today's vibrant New York City new-music scene. The New Canon offers listeners the exciting opportunity to engage in open conversations with those composers, musicians and artists actively shaping our 21st-century musical canon.
New Jersey Capitol Report
Emmy Award-winning anchors Steve Adubato and Rafael Pi Roman examine New Jersey's most pressing public policy issues. New Jersey Capitol Report looks at political, social, and cultural issues affecting the people of New Jersey through in-depth conversations with the state's top legislative leaders, political pundits, and "movers and shakers."
New York Philharmonic This Week
With Alan Gilbert as Music Director, and Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin as the host, the 2010-11 season is an exciting one to tune in for The New York Philharmonic This Week.
Obsessive Choral with Nico Muhly
"In this four-part series on Q2, we explore a few centuries of (mainly) English choral music, ignoring, as the genre itself suggests, the better part of the 18th and 19th centuries. This is by no means comprehensive, but is, rather, my own strange itinerary through the pieces I adore." - Nico Muhly
On Wings Of Song
Legendary mezzo-soprano,
Operavore Stream
WQXR's new 24-hour stream dedicated to Opera. Enjoy this continuous, carefully programmed mix of opera arias, duets, scenes choruses and instrumental numbers. The Operavore stream is updated with a different program each day.
Overnight Music
Tune in for a nightly mix that spans the centuries: from full-length operas, oratorios and major symphonies to the latest offerings from New York's vibrant new music scene.
Performance Today
Performance Today features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios as well as interviews, news and features. Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris.
Pipedreams
Each week, Pipedreams host Michael Barone shares selected organ works and performances, and in doing so, encourages listeners to engage both their ears and imaginations to gain greater appreciation of this instrument.
Q2 Music
Q2 Music is a listener-supported, New York-based internet stream devoted to the music of living composers; a home for immersive festivals, live Web casts and on-demand concerts from today’s leading New Music performers and venues. Follow us on facebook/Q2 and Twitter/Q2music.
Reporters Roundtable
Reporters Roundtable With Michael Aron provides viewers with an in-depth examination of the issues reported on the front pages of the state's leading newspapers by the journalists who report the news. Reporters from the state's leading newspapers discuss New Jersey politics, policy and news and offer insight beyond what is printed in the newspaper. The program premiered in 1989 as part of the network's election coverage efforts.
Saint Paul Sunday
What would it be like to hear the Juilliard String Quartet perform in your living room? Or to invite violinist Joshua Bell over for brunch and Bach? Many people believe that chamber music is open only to connoisseurs, but each week Saint Paul Sunday's veteran host Bill McGlaughlin disproves this all-too-common view.
Saturday at the Opera
WFMT brings you the most electrifying live performances from the world’s great opera companies: the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Los Angeles Opera, the San Francisco Opera, and the Houston Grand Opera.
Showdown @ High Noon
Every Wednesday morning, vote for the piece you want to hear at noon.
Song of America
Presented by the Hampsong Foundation, Song of America is a 13-week radio series that reveals American classic song – poetry set to music by American composers – as a vibrant diary of the American experience. Thomas Hampson conceived and developed the series, which is co-produced with the WFMT Radio Network of Chicago and is syndicated by the network to radio stations across the country.
Symphony Hall
Symphony Hall is a one-hour program airing each weeknight that features a full-length major symphonic work. Performances are drawn from major symphony orchestras from around the globe. To find out what you heard, please consult our playlists. Symphony Hall airs weeknights at 8PM on 105.9 FM.
Terrance McKnight
Terrance McKnight is the WQXR weekday evening host. He also hosts the Saturday evening program, All Ears with Terrance McKnight, a show about musical discovery, which was honored with an ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award in 2010.
Vintage Violins
As part of our ViolinFest, WQXR is presenting Vintage Violins, every Monday night in September. You’ll hear giants like Jascha Heifetz, David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Nathan Milstein and many more. We’ll focus on their chamber works, so you can hear their sound up close and at its most intimate.
Vintage WQXR Stream
WQXR celebrates 75 years of classical music broadcasting this December. This Vintage WQXR Stream features archived episodes of iconic radio shows such as Great Artists Series, The Vocal Scene, and Memoirs in Music as well as some classic live performances. The Vintage WQXR stream is available on WQXR and mobile devices through November 1st.
WQXR Fall Pledge Drive
Support WQXR this Fall. Membership has its benefits. When you pledge to become a member, you can receive the QCard for discount benefits. Call 1-888-813-1059 or pledge online.
WQXR Holiday Channel
WQXR welcomes the holiday season with a 24-hour stream dedicated to classical Christmas favorites. Enjoy the sounds of orchestras, choirs, brass ensembles and more as we celebrate the sacred and secular sounds of the season. Share your comments with us.
WQXR Holiday Music
WQXR welcomes the holiday season with a 24-hour stream dedicated to classical Christmas favorites. Enjoy the sounds of orchestras, choirs, brass ensembles and more as we celebrate the sacred and secular sounds of the season. The stream runs through Dec. 31.
WQXR's The Washington Report
The Washington Report has been a WQXR tradition for many years. Each week, The New York Times' David Sanger joins us with a preview of the top stories from Washington.
Weekend Music
Tune in for a mix that spans the centuries: from full-length operas, oratorios and major symphonies to the latest offerings from New York's vibrant new music scene.
The Writer's Almanac
Each day, Garrison Keillor recounts the highlights of this day in history and reads a short poem or two on The Writer's Almanac.
