WQXR 50th Anniversary Show [Album # 23]
Sunday, September 14, 1986
Host Robert Sherman draws from listener letters, reflections, and comments. He also reviews the programs Just Music, Nights in Latin America, and Cocktail Time with Duncan Purnie who recalls earlier days at WQXR. Sherman talks with Douglas McKinnon, WQXR’s first program director and musical commentator who came to W2XR in December 1935. We hear from Lily Pons and Andre Kostelanetz on Gilbert Hyatt’s literature program on haiku.
WNYC archives id: 66304
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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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