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  • 12:00 AM
    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.

  • 06:00 AM
    From the Top
  • Greensburg, Pennsylvania

    From the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, Penn., this week's From the Top features a local 12-year-old pianist playing one of Aaron Copland’s most playful pieces, a talented 15-year-old cellist performing Schumann, and the fantastic Junior Division winners of the nation's most prestigious chamber music competition performing from Leos Janacek's String Quartet No. 2.

  • 07:00 AM
    Elliott Forrest
  • Elliott Forrest is currently the midday 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.

  • 08:00 AM
    Classics For Kids
  • Telemann’s Life

    Georg Philipp Telemann wrote more music than any other classical composer. Learn about the life of this prolific musician this week on Classics for Kids.

  • 08:15 AM
    Elliott Forrest
  • Elliott Forrest is currently the midday 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.

  • 12:00 PM
    Metropolitan Opera
  • Berlioz's Les Troyens

    Berlioz’s vast epic about the siege of Troy returns in Francesca Zambello's grand 2003 production. Susan Graham is Dido, Deborah Voigt is Cassandra, Marcello Giordani is Aeneas and Karen Cargill plays Anna.

    Go to program: Metropolitan Opera

  • 04:00 PM
    Clayelle Dalferes
  • Clayelle Dalferes hosts WQXR on Weekend afternoons.

  • 06:00 PM
    David Garland
  • David Garland hosts Saturday and Sunday evenings on WQXR. 

  • 09:00 PM
    Movies on the Radio
  • The Varied Talents of Richard Rodney Bennett

    Richard Rodney Bennett, who died on Dec. 24, was a composer known for the diversity of his work, which included everything from cabaret songs to symphonies.

  • 10:00 PM
    All Ears with Terrance McKnight
  • Compassion in the Key of C

    For the first show of the year, host Terrance McKnight presents a program that speaks to the ideal of generosity and compassion.