Programs

The Arts File

Friday mornings at 8:30am

The Arts File is a new feature on WQXR. Each week, WNYC's Kerry Nolan talks to a reporter, critic or expert about one of the top arts and culture stories in the New York region.

David Finckel, Wu Han

Chamber Music Society

Mondays at 10 p.m.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s 2009-2010 radio season features 26 one-hour programs drawn from live performances recorded during the Society’s 2008-2009 season.

Choral Fixation

Airs Sundays at noon on 105.9 FM

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.

David Garland

David Garland

Airs Fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 6pm and Sundays at 4pm on 105.9 FM

Saturday nights at 9:00 p.m., 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.

Exploring Music

Exploring Music

Airs weeknights at 11pm on 105.9 FM

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

Airs Sunday nights at 10pm on 105.9 FM

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. 

Jeff Spurgeon

Jeff Spurgeon

Airs weekdays at 5:30am on 105.9 FM

While still a teenager in his western Nebraska hometown Jeff Spurgeon’s radio career had what might be called a providential beginning: He was giving announcements in church, and one congregant – who owned a local radio station – heard him and offered an audition. Since then, Jeff has worked on the radio as an announcer, a news reporter, a newscaster, an interviewer, and a producer. He came to New York in 1986, joining WQXR in 1997 as a newscaster.  He was a music host for the last decade of WQXR's ownership by The New York Times. 

Gilbert Kaplan

Mad About Music

Airs on the first Sunday of every month at 9pm on 105.9 FM

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.

Robert Sherman

McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase

Airs Wednesdays at 9p.m.

The McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase, the WQXR weekly radio show that since 1978 has sought out and displayed the talents of young emerging artists.

Margaret Juntwait

Metropolitan Opera

Airs Saturdays at 1pm on 105.9 FM

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

Airs weekdays at 10am on 105.9 FM

Midday host Midge Woolsey has proudly served the tri-state community as a broadcaster for 25 years.  She joined WQXR in 1993 and most recently served as weekday evening host.  For public television’s flagship station Thirteen/WNET she hosted specials such as Andrea Bocelli’s Emmy nominated Statue of Liberty Concert, The Three Tenors with James Levine live from Paris and the landmark 24-hour event PBS Millennium 2000. 

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Movies on the Radio

Airs Saturdays at 9PM on 105.9 FM

Saturday nights at 9:00 p.m., 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

Nadia Sirota on Q2

Airs Weekdays from 12-4, a.m. and p.m.

Violist, former WNYC Overnight Music host, and new music black-belt Nadia Sirota hosts Nadia Sirota on Q2, a show airing weekdays from 12-4, a.m. and p.m., on WQXR’s internet station, Q2. Every week, Nadia explores the catalysts and breakthroughs of today’s diverse and thriving new music scene, with an additional feature, Hope Springs Atonal, at 1 devoted to the high-octane world of post-tonal music.

Naomi Lewin

Naomi Lewin

Airs weekdays at 3pm on 105.9 FM

Afternoon host Naomi Lewin comes to WQXR from WGUC, Cincinnati’s Classical Public Radio station.  She writes and hosts the award-winning weekly feature Classics for Kids, a demystification of classical music for kids of all ages, which airs on radio stations from Vermont to Utah (and in the Philippines!). 

Alan Gilbert

New York Philharmonic This Week

Airs Thursdays at 9p.m.

With Alan Gilbert as new Music Director, and Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin as the new host, the 2009-10 season is an exciting one to tune in for The New York Philharmonic This Week.

Overnight Music

Overnight Music

Airs daily at midnight on 105.9 FM

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.

Fred Child

Performance Today

Airs Sunday nights at 8pm on 105.9 FM

Performance Today is one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.2 million weekly listeners on 237 stations around the country.

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

Airs Saturdays at 6am and Sundays at 11pm on 105.9 FM

The power and wonder of the “king of instruments.”
 
“Pipedreams engages a wide range of listeners—not just organists—and that is the magic and the beauty of it. Pipedreams is not only an ongoing course in organ repertoire, but it is also a door for people who have never yet heard a pipe organ or gone to an organ recital.” —The American Organist Magazine

Terrance McKnight

Q2 with Terrance McKnight

Airs Saturday nights at 10pm on 105.9 FM

Q2 with Terrance McKnight is a weekly show that is about musical discovery.  The show cultivates a strong relationship between its host, Terrance McKnight, and the listeners on a direct and personal level, using the shared experience of music-listening and through the dialogue that takes place on Terrance's blog.

 

Bill McGlaughlin

Saint Paul Sunday

Airs Sunday mornings at 6am on 105.9 FM

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 Brunch with Elliott Forrest

Airs Saturdays at 7am on 105.9 FM

Elliott Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster and producer. He has been heard regularly on WQXR since 2002. He is the national radio host of the syndicated concerts from The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and creates regular podcasts for The New York Philharmonic. His first radio job was in his hometown of Midland, Texas on KNFM.  He went on to work at Kansas City’s KXTR-FM; WKJY, Long Island; WEVD, NY and WNCN, NY.

Saturday at the Opera

Airs Saturdays from 1pm to 6pm on 105.9 FM

This fall, WQXR brings you the most electrifying performances from the world’s great opera companies, starting with the mother of all opera houses, the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. Future installments will feature operas recorded live at the Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera and Houston Grand Opera. The series runs October 10 through December 5.

Elliott Forrest

Sunday Brunch With Elliott Forrest

Airs Sunday mornings at 7am on 105.9 FM

Elliott Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster and producer. He has been heard regularly on WQXR since 2002. He is the national radio host of the syndicated concerts from The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and creates regular podcasts for The New York Philharmonic.

Symphony Hall

Airs weeknights at 8PM on 105.9 FM

Airs weeknights at 8PM on 105.9 FM

Temple Emanu-El

Fridays

In October, WNYC began operating WQXR as a public radio station, and as of January 1, 2010, WQXR will no longer carry religious programming.

Terrance McKnight

Terrance McKnight

Airs weeknights at 7pm on 105.9 FM

As a WQXR evening host, Terrance McKnight brings to the position wide and varied musical experience that includes performance, teaching and radio broadcast.

WQXR's The Washington Report

Airs Mondays at 8:30am on 105.9 FM

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.

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Weekend Music

Airs Saturdays at noon and Sundays at 2pm on 105.9 FM

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.

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