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David Garland

For the last 20 years David Garland has been a host WNYC listeners turn to when they want to hear the latest in space-age bachelor pad music, pixie-ish folk-rock, and just about anything else offbeat...

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WNYC Transition Project: An Aural History

The Transition Project tracks the introspective thoughts of WNYC staff on the pivotal move from New York Public Radio's long-time home at the historic Municipal Building to the newly renovated and...

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Who's Out There?

Who needs radio? Online, you can pursue your enthusiasms to their deepest nooks and crannies, but with radio, you have no control over content. In this age of digital dissemination, when everything is...

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Passionate

I was moved when reading the many passionate comments on my previous blog post. I'm keen to know what you have to say, so please express yourself, and keep the comments coming.As interested as I am, I...

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Son of a Mad Man

The television series Mad Men concludes its current season this Sunday night at 10 pm. I've been following it closely for its intricate, provocative story, intriguing characters, great acting, and...

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Inspired

In the comments on last week's blog, listener Michael wrote of the "brilliantly talented artists" who worked in advertising in the mid-20th Century. He's right, they certainly were brilliant.I'm...

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Sing Theory

I love the way radio brings music directly to the listener. Gigantic symphonies can become an intimate experience; a full opera is staged in the imagination of each listener; great performers play for...

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Lucy

Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We're all great apes, but that doesn’t mean we’re one happy family. This hour of Radiolab: stories of trying to live together.Is this kind of cross-species co-habitation an...

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Celebrating Marta Eggerth

This Saturday, April 17, Hungarian-born singer Marta Eggerth will celebrate her 98th birthday. Knowing Marta, as I’m fortunate to, she will surely have a lively celebration with humor and music.Marta...

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Going to the Theater

I'm going to the theater more often than I used to.One show I saw last week was the Ma-Yi Theater Company's "Rescue Me (A Post-modern classic with snacks)," a loose, fanciful adaptation of the ancient...

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Traveling Music

Like a journey, music happens in time. Music takes us places. It describes places. Music is a place. Monday through Friday, May 3-7, from 12-4, a.m. and p.m., I’ll be your tour guide on Q2, offering...

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Mama Said

Mother’s Day is Sunday, and WQXR listeners have already eloquently told us about their mothers' musical influence.Our mothers teach us so much about so many things, directly or indirectly, deliberately...

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Music Connects

Music connects us to composers' ideas and musicians' talent; to emotions and shared experiences; to the secular and the sacred; to other cultures, and to each other. Monday through Friday, May 3-7,...

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Young and Old

This Sunday at 4:05 pm, you'll hear the baroque orchestra Juilliard415 join me in the WQXR Studio to perform and chat. Juilliard415 features graduate-level students from The Juilliard School's new...

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Juilliard415

The Juilliard School, the music and performance arts conservatory in New York City, can trace its history back over a century. But this academic year has been the first in which Juilliard offered a...

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Computer Chorus

Computers both isolate and connect us. Here's a strange, spooky, but pretty-sounding example of this contemporary condition.My brother sent me (via computer, natch) a performance of Eric Whitacre's...

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Rise and Shine and Go to a Concert

This week at a dinner party I met Pam, who left the get-together early. I'm a night owl myself (on the air weekend evenings, after all), but Pam told us that she regularly gets up at 4 am each day. She...

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Kirk and Spock Together at Last

Last week's Movies on the Radio featured music from the TV show "Star Trek," and was illustrated with a photo of actors William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy as their iconic Star Trek characters Captain...

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Visual Music

Although I work in the non-visual medium of radio, by training I'm a visual artist. I graduated from art school, and worked for ten years as a graphic designer and illustrator before moving to radio...

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Live at WNYC: The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger makes songs which are ornate, fanciful, tuneful, and unusual. The band is Sean Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and his partner in life and music, Charlotte...

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