Host Bob Sherman plays clips from WQXR's Mailbag over the years. The earliest clip is from 1937. Clips include:
1. A reader recounts his experience listening to Beethoven's Eroica (3rd Symphony) on WQXR while in the Navy.
2. WQXR founder John Hogan testing music and voice levels on the experimental station W2XR.
3. A birthday salute to soprano Lotte Lehmann from Bruno Walter in 1963.
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About WQXR at 50, An Anniversary Album
Host Robert Sherman digs deep into the station's rich archives for this mini-series celebrating the first 50 years of WQXR.
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