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  • In the second of a three-part series, Felix Hernandez, host of Rhythm Revue on WBGO, shares an excerpt of his archival interview with the legendary vocalist Etta James.
  • The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Ana Vidovic, guitar, playing Albéniz, Barrios, Sor, and more on Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 3pm ET as part of its fall classical music season, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The concert will also be available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast. Tickets for both the in-person and livestream options are $20-$45 and are available at 92y.org/event/ana-vidovic.  Among the world's most elite guitarists, Ana Vidovic combines brilliant technical with a beautiful tone, broad color palette, and refined musicality in performances that leave audiences enthralled. A first-prize winner in top competitions in England, Italy and Spain and student of the legendary Manuel Barrueco, Vidovic returns to the stage that launched her career in the US in a program of masterworks by Albéniz, Barrios, Sor, and more, as well as a transcription of Bach's famed Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major. The program includes: Bach, Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (trans. Despalj) Sor, Introduction and Variations on a theme by Mozart, Op. 9 Castelnuevo-Tedesco, Capriccio Diabolico, Op. 85 "Omaggio a Paganini" Albéniz, Granada Albéniz, Asturias Tárrega, Recuerdos de la Alhambra Barrios, La Catedral Scarlatti, selected sonatas Leo Brouwer, Un Dia de Noviembre Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more. A full list of performances and dates are listed below. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts. The Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season continues with: RANDALL GOOSBY, violin  ZHU WANG, piano   Thu, December 9, 2021, 7:30 PM Mozart: Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454  Price: Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor  Price: Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor  Price: Adoration   Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major  THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor COLIN JACOBSEN, violin Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo" Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano  Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM   C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12   G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12   Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  CONRAD TAO, piano  Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM   Conrad Tao: Improvisation John Adams: China Gates Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2) J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Conrad Tao: Grids of E Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann) Conrad Tao: Premiere of KEYED IN  Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  About 92nd Street Y: The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92Y.org. 
  • The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Jeremy Denk, piano, playing Bach on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 8pm ET as part of its fall classical music season, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets are $20-$45 and are available at 92y.org/event/jeremy-denk. MacArthur "Genius" Award winner Jeremy Denk is heralded for artistry that combines pianistic mastery with probing intellect. He returns to our stage perform a work that has become a personal passion, Bach's ingenious collection of preludes and fugues in all 24 keys, Book I of his Well-Tempered Clavier. Denk is acclaimed for the color, sensitivity, wit and splendor of his Bach performances and for his related lectures including "Think Like Bach," and there is simply no artist better poised to bring new revelations to this monumental work. The program includes: Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more. A full list of performances and dates are listed below. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts. The Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season continues with: ANA VIDOVIC, guitar  Sunday, December 5, 2021, 3 PM   Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (trans. Despalj) Sor: Introduction and Variations on a theme by Mozart, Op. 9 Castelnuevo-Tedesco: Capriccio Diabolico, Op. 85 "Omaggio a Paganini" Albéniz: Granada Albéniz: Asturias Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra Barrios: La Catedral Scarlatti: selected sonatas Leo Brouwer: Un Dia de Noviembre Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  RANDALL GOOSBY, violin  ZHU WANG, piano   Thu, December 9, 2021, 7:30 PM Mozart: Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454  Price: Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor  Price: Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor  Price: Adoration   Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major  THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor COLIN JACOBSEN, violin Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo"  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano  Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM   C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12   G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12   Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  CONRAD TAO, piano  Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM   Conrad Tao: Improvisation John Adams: China Gates Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2) J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Conrad Tao: Grids of E Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann) Conrad Tao: Premiere of KEYED IN  Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  About 92nd Street Y:  The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92Y.org. 
  • The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Randall Goosby, violin, and Zhu Wang, piano, playing Mozart, Franck, and Price on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 7:30pm ET as part of its fall classical music season, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets for both the in-person and livestream options are $20-$45 and are available at 92y.org/event/randall-goosby-and-zhu-wang. The stunning talents of 24-year-old Sphinx Competition-winning violinist Goosby were first discovered by Itzhak Perlman, with whom Goosby studied at Juilliard, and chronicled recently in a major feature in The New York Times. His playing is sumptuously in the Perlman vein — an incredibly rich and lush tone, and tremendous color, depth and expressivity. Goosby's musical partner is the tremendously talented Young Concert Artist-winning pianist Zhu Wang, who makes his solo Carnegie Hall debut later this year. Their program features a Mozart sonata perfect for showcasing their artistry; three gorgeous, melodic works of Florence Price, arguably the first major female African American composer; and Franck's A-Major Sonata — filled with sheer Romantic excess in the finest sense, bravura passages and beautiful interplay, and a fabulous showpiece for both violinist and pianist. The program includes: Mozart, Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454 Price, Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor Price, Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor Price, Adoration Franck, Violin Sonata in A Major Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more.  A full list of performances and dates are listed below. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts. The Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season continues with: THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor COLIN JACOBSEN, violin Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo"  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano  Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM   C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12   G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12   Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  CONRAD TAO, piano  Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM   Conrad Tao: Improvisation John Adams: China Gates Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2) J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Conrad Tao: Grids of E Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann) Conrad Tao: Premiere of KEYED IN  Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  About 92nd Street Y:  The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92Y.org. 
  • One is a chart-topping juggernaut who has sparked musical controversy for the last 35 years. The other is a master who’s spent that same span of time balancing improvisational fire with lyrical soul. Yes, in both instances we’re talking about saxophonist Kenny G — Gorelick in the first case, and Garrett in the second. As you can imagine, we have some thoughts.
  • Yankees legend and jazz guitarist Bernie Williams and violinist Katia Lindor join SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about their upcoming concert at Carnegie Hall
  • Today we’re remembering Paul Motian, on what would have been his 95th birthday and revisiting his interview with Ben Sidran from the 1980s.
  • On this episode of The Art of the Story, veteran Broadway dancer, actor and director Ronald "Smokey" Stevens talks about his time spent with Cab Calloway and overcoming drug addiction
  • SportsJam with Doug Doyle pays tribute to internationally-known dancer and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Emerita Judith Jamison who died on Saturday, November 9, 2024 at the age of 81. Jamison was a special guest on the show in 2008.
  • On this episode of The Art of the Story, Nanny Assis and Bobby Sanabria talk about a special concert coming up at Dizzy's Club that celebrates the iconic sound of Antonio Carlos Jobim
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