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The Arts File

Airs Fridays at 8:30AM on 105.9FM

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.

Aspen in August

Airs Mondays in August at 10pm on 105.9 FM

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.

The Best of The Vocal Scene

This show is no longer airing.

WQXR is pleased to present a special summer series reviving the much beloved The Vocal Scene with George Jellinek.

Chamber Music Society

The current season has ended. Past episodes are available in the archives.

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 7AM and 11PM 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.

Concerts from The Frick Collection

This show is no longer airing. You can access archives online.

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 on Q2

Airs Sundays at 2PM on Q2; encores Tuesdays at 8PM and Thursdays at 4PM on Q2

Cued Up on Q2 is a summer festival of new music concerts recorded live in New York City. With highlights from past Bang on a Can Marathons, Cued Up on Q2 connects listeners with New York City’s vibrant New Music scene. New York Public Radio voices John Schaefer, Jad Abumrad, Nadia Sirota and Helga Davis crystalize the great strides in innovative, contemporary music-making and offer a way for local audiences to re-experience and international audiences to discover the dynamic music of today.

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.

Elliott Forrest

Airs Saturdays at 7am and Sundays at 8am on 105.9 FM

Elliott Forrest's experience as producer and host of numerous radio and television programs, including The Late Late Radio Show, helped hone his one-on-one interviewing prowess and shape his award-winning broadcasts.

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 Saturdays at 6AM and Sundays at 6PM on 105.9FM

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!

Airs weekdays at 11AM and 11PM on Q2

Say hello to Hammered!, Q2'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

Airs weekdays at 5:30AM on 105.9 FM

Jeff Spurgeon has been the guiding voice for a broadcast journalism class in a high school in Queens and several New York City choirs, hosting numerous concerts around the world and working as a radio host and newscaster for over 30 years.

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Airs Thursdays at 9PM on 105.9 FM

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

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.

The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase

Airs Wednesdays at 9PM on 105.9FM

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

Metropolitan Opera

The current season has ended. Past episodes are available in the archives.

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

Airs weekdays at 10AM on 105.9 FM

Midge Woolsey's grounding in opera and musical theater led her to become a producer and host for public television and radio, proudly serving the tristate community with her soothing presence for over 30 years.

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 on Q2

Airs weekdays at 12AM and 12PM on Q2

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, a.m. and p.m., devoted to the high-octane world of post-tonal music.

Naomi Lewin

Airs weekdays at 3PM on 105.9 FM

A formidable narrator and mezzo-soprano, Naomi Lewin was a pioneer in internet radio. Her award-winning radio documentaries are regularly featured on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. Her program Classics for Kids endeavors to demystify classical music.

New York Philharmonic This Week

The current season has ended.

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.

On Wings Of Song

This show is no longer airing. You can access archives online.

Legendary mezzo-soprano, Marilyn Horne and WQXR’s Elliott Forrest co-host an hour that’s part concert, part master-class and part reminiscence.

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.

Performance Today

Airs Sundays at 7PM on 105.9 FM

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 Sundays at 10PM on 105.9 FM

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 with Terrance McKnight

Airs Saturday nights at 10pm on 105.9 FM; encores on Sundays at 4pm and Mondays at 8pm on Q2

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 the WQXR blog.

Reporters Roundtable

Airs Sundays at 6:30AM on 105.9 FM

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

Airs Sundays at 9PM 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 at the Opera

Airs Saturdays at 1pm on 105.9 FM

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.

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