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Music and the Infant Mind

Soundcheck

Airs weekdays at 2PM on 93.9 FM
Researchers have widely debunked the so-called Mozart effect on babies. On today's show, we look at what music can do for your newborn - and how toddlers can develop a taste for Schoenberg. Also: composer Joshua Camp shares his new composition honoring Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Deerhoof/Metropolis Ensemble Live Webcast

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WNYC and NPR Music team up to bring you this live webcast from the Prospect Park Bandshell, which pairs indie rock sensation Deerhoof with the progressive Metropolis Ensemble. Presented by Celebrate Brooklyn! and Wordless Music, and hosted by David Garland, the program features an ambitious re-imagining of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, The Rite: Remixed.
Video: Deerhoof fans perform leaked track for WNYC

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Terrance McKnight (photo by Heather Swanson)

Mozart's Mantle

WNYC's Evening Music Blog

Both conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and composer Osvaldo Golijov recently said that the music world is ready for our generation’s Mozart. Who do you think it is? Is it even a "classical" composer? Weeknight music host Terrance McKnight invites listeners to weigh in at the Evening Music blog.

Music With Narration

New Sounds

Airs daily at 11PM on 93.9 FM
For this New Sounds, there's an hour of offbeat words and music including a work by Toby Twining with John Ventimiglia from "The Sopranos," and more.

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Avocet

Spinning On Air

Airs Sundays at 7PM on 93.9 FM
Amplified dangling forks and spoons provide accompaniment to the songs of Avocet. Avocet is Meara O’Reilly, who has visited Spinning On Air before with the band Feathers. An avocet is a kind of water bird, and avian themes abound in Meara’s songs. She talks about this, her instruments, and more, with host David Garland.

Pianist Lang Lang (Felix Broede for Deutsche Grammophon)

Performance Today: Live in Aspen

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Join host Fred Child for this performance recorded live in Aspen. The concert features Rachmaninoff preludes from pianist Lang Lang; a Mozart piano trio featuring violinist Julia Fischer, cellist Daniel Muller-Schott and pianist Jonathan Gilad; and South American works from guitarist Sharon Isbin.

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Bars

The No Show

Steve goes pub crawling in the last of this series of five No Shows, and you are invited to join him. Fill up your glass and match Steve drink for drink until you hear him whine, “What do you mean, we’re out of wine?”

Valery Gergiev

Mad About Music

Airs the first Sunday of every month at 9PM on 93.9 FM
Few conductors have exploded on the global scene as Valery Gergiev has in the past 10 years.In this wide ranging interview, with host Gilbert Kaplan (first aired in 2003), Valery Gergiev talks with remarkable candor about the challenges of conducting.

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Music from the 92nd Street Y with Sara Fishko

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Sara Fishko digs into the audio archives of the 92nd Street Y to bring us the greatest live performances from the stage of the Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. Curated and hosted by Fishko, the series combines elements from different concerts over the past few years, designed to highlight a particular theme or performer with the radio listener in mind.

The Wordless Music Series on WNYC

Four 1-Hour Specials Hosted by Radio Lab’s Jad Abumrad

The Wordless Music Series pairs rock and electronic musicians with more traditional chamber and new music performers, to create an entirely new concert experience. As Wordless Music opens on a new season, WNYC presents four one-hour specials that highlight and underscore the ground-breaking '07-'08 season, hosted by Radio Lab's Jad Abumrad.

2008 American Music Festival

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Hosts Terrance McKnight and David Garland curate the 68th annual American Music Festival, featuring "America's Classical Music." Guests include LD Brown a.k.a. Grey Reverend; acclaimed jazz pianist Jason Moran; composer and musicologist Gunther Schuller; culture critic John Rockwell; new music guru John Zorn, and Pulitzer prize-winning composer William Bolcom.

The New Americans

A Station-Wide Celebration on WNYC-FM and WNYC2

WNYC announces The New Americans, an ongoing station-wide celebration of foreign-born artists now residing in the United States.

Ear to Ear

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New York City is home to some of the world's most dynamic musicians. Ear to Ear takes innovative musicians off the New York stages and into the studio for relaxed, insightful conversation, as they share their personal recordings with host David Garland. From Carnegie to Southpaw, guests are drawn from a broad range of backgrounds and genres, from classical to experimental and beyond.

Music Festivals and Specials Page

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Want to know what's in Mark Morris' ears? How about what music Alec Baldwin uses to prep for his role on "30 Rock"? And just what makes Wagner's "Ring" so special, anyway? Find the answers to all of those questions and more on wnyc.org's Music Festivals and Specials Page!

500 Years of New Music

WNYC2

Free of additives, commercials and generic performances, our HD and Internet channel WNYC2 brings you the fearless and relevant music that you crave, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.