#wqxr

[garadinervi]

WQXR / The NYPR Archive Collections: Jacqueline du Pré [rebroadcast of an August [21] 1977 interview with Jacqueline du Pré. Robert Sherman recounts his visit with du Pré in her home in London and proceeds with audio from his interview] [New York Public Radio, New York, NY]

(image: Jacqueline du Pré rehearses with accompanist Stephen Bishop Kovacevich at Goldsmith's Hall, London, October 15, 1964. Photo: © Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

[elgallinero]

La Musica e Vita

Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 by Charles Munch & Boston Symphony Orchestra https://www.shazam.com/track/92546515/till-eulenspiegels-merry-pranks-op-28?referrer=share

[nonesuchrecords]

Rhiannon Giddens was on WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart to talk about and share songs from her new album, You’re the One. You can hear their conversation here. 

This Saturday, Giddens—who won this year's Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera Omar with Michael Abels and hosts the WQXR / Metropolitan Opera podcast Aria Code—will host The Met’s Live in HD broadcast of the opera Dead Man Walking, based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir. You can get tickets here.

[spicerevolution]

Happy Summer Solstice to you and yours! Don’t think about the future. Enjoy today the longest day of the year, enjoy everyday because now that Summer has begun its one day closer to being over. #twilightzone #summer #future #learnalesson #focus #today #summersolstice #wqxr #jeffspurgeon #reminders (at Twilight Zone) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfEM9x1AuAY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[vegetadaily]

He really did shoot me!

[theodoradove]

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[sunspira]

This is probably one of the oldest youtube comedy skits that still holds up really well and yes this IS how Donald Glover / Childish Gambino’s career started out which is really neat. I thought this video was the funniest thing in the world when I was like 13/14 and tbh I was right. It was uploaded 15 years ago which just blows my buttons clean off 

[weirdmefrom13]

So i didnt know much about leonard bernstien (ik ik fake Jew) but like. hes real as FUCK.

[mitigatingchaos]

Sunday Pipes #129

Yesterday, while running some errands around Nashville, I was listening to the WQXR app via Bluetooth in the car when I heard a version of this piece. Powerful, and from one of the comments: “The beautiful sound of the organ played by such a talented organist is food for the soul” J.S. Bach – Jesus Christus, under Heiland  (BWV 665), courtesy of the Netherlands Bach Society.

[theromanceofaffliction]

yes i dabble in radio station discourse. of course the best station is wfmu. maybe after that is wqxr new sounds. wprb is pretty good too. i sometimes enjoy kexp but i just dont like indie music like that. wfuv is definitely uninteresting and unoffensive so there's that

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

PLS I’M DYING

[frogsandfries]

Okay, okay

I'm kinda bored.

This sky sketchbook/notebook is so repetitive and I feel like I'm out of things to listen to--I don't want to watch YouTube or movies or TV. I don't want to listen to my music, WQXR, podcasts, audio books or ambient sounds.

So I cut up some Amazon boxes and drowned them in the tub. I'm going to salvage the paper off the inner and outer sides.

Actually, thinking about it, it's really exciting that I have so much stability and space, we've just been letting cardboard boxes pile up because no one really wants to take them out. It's kind of a good thing we have so much space, I have an enormous amount of scrap and junk paper that I can shred and reuse. I'm having kind of a moment for paper, because paper means sketchbooks. Although, I'm definitely going to reach a tipping point where I might have to sell or give away some of my sketchbooks because it's so easy to make them and so time consuming to use them.

I'm still really excited about the sky colors book, but without something to listen to....... it's hard to keep the momentum going.......

[elgallinero]

La Musica e Vita

Turandot: Nessun Dorma! by Lando Bartolini https://www.shazam.com/track/46138415/turandot-nessun-dorma?referrer=share

[operacomments]

screencap from a WQXR video of a nadine sierra performance where she wears a blue and silver jumpsuit and stands by a piano. comment from runa schlaffer says “Her pantsuit looks ridiculous and detracts from the performance.”

[hennehirokane]

"In the process of archiving and digitizing analog tape loops from work I had done in 1982, I discovered some wonderful, sweeping pastoral pieces I had forgotten about. Beautiful, lush, cinematic, truly American pastoral landscapes swept before my ears and eyes. During the transfer process, as each of the loops played round and round on the tape deck, I soon realized the tape loops were disintegrating — the iron oxide particles were gradually turning to dust and dropping into the tape machine, leaving bare plastic spots on the tape, and silence in the corresponding sections of the new recording. I was recording the death of these melodies.

It was very emotional for me and mystical as well. Tied up in these melodies were my youth, my paradise lost, the American pastoral landscape, all dying gently, gracefully, beautifully in their own way, in their own time. Life and death were being recorded here as a whole — death as simply a part of life, a cosmic change, a transformation. When the disintegration was complete, the body was simply a little strip of clear plastic with a few clinging chords. The music had turned to dust and was scattered along the tape path, yet the essence and memory of the life and death of each unique melody had been saved, recorded to a new medium, remembered.

On September 11, 2001, I was on my roof in Brooklyn, less than one nautical mile from the World Trade Center: that which towered so far above every other skyscraper in New York City, my nightlight. My neighbors and I witnessed the end of the world as we knew it that day. We were in shock. We sat on the roof terrace in lawn chairs and watched the fires burning all day into night with The Disintegration Loops playing in the background. The human scale of the catastrophe we couldn’t even comprehend at the time.

In the next days and weeks, I watched as my friends and I disintegrated into our own personal loops of agony, fear and terror — each one happening on its own terms, in its own language, at its own pace. People’s hearts had been shattered and what cascaded down immediately was the selfishness, the arrogance, the ugliness. Yet what remained was the heartfelt compassion, kindness and love for each other which makes us human. An end of an era... a new beginning."

—Remarks for WQXR in advance of the live audio webcast at the Met Museum of William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, September 11, 2011