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Classical New York. Listen at 105.9 FM, https://t.co/E228exQkSH, on our mobile app, or ask your smart speaker to "Play WQXR" ✨ Listener supported 🫶
New York City
Joined October 2009
RT @tnyfrontrow: Any mention of a cello (as on @WQXR this morning) instantly brings to mind Jack Black's "cel-LO" in School of Rock.
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Join us at 1 pm for a thrilling Artist’s Choice broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, picked by Ryan Speedo Green: Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, starring the great George London. Thomas Schippers conducted this performance from 1960. Info here:
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Last week, if you missed Les Arts Florissants on Carnegie Hall Live led by conductor William Christie, you can now listen to the full episode on-demand. You’ll also hear an encore from a surprise guest, Joyce DiDonato.
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RT @RamonaRightNow: I found my Friday dance track on @WQXR his afternoon. And by dance, I mean waltz. Thanks Terrance McKnight!! https://t…
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We’re giving away tickets to see Last Call at New World Stages. Tune in until 11 am today and tommorow for a chance to win! Peter Danish’s play finds Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan in Vienna, where, over one last drink, they seek common ground.
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Celebrate the legacy of the great poet Langston Hughes this evening with host Terrance McKnight by tuning in to "I, Too, Sing America: Music In The Life Of Langston Hughes." 🎧: Listen on-demand here: or on 105.9 FM tonight at 8 PM ET.
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RT @BigGreenPen: That feeling when you get the @wqxr Know-it-all New Yorker question right but you aren't the 30th (or whatever) entrant:…
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Today marks the birthdate of the lieder composer we all love so much: Franz Schubert. Although his brief life only spanned 31 years, the composer wrote an astonishing amount of music - some of which you'll hear on-air today.
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This Saturday at 1 pm, you'll hear a 2007 production of Verdi’s 'La Traviata' starring Renée Fleming from The Metropolitan Opera. Need a refresher on the plot? Listen to morning host Jeff Spurgeon break it down in a New York minute (or three).
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Looking for some music recommendations? Take a look at five new classical albums that our staff members are listening to - you might just discover your new favorite recording. You'll hear selections from these albums on-air throughout February.
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Happy Lunar New Year! In honor of the holiday, we’re revisiting the time that pipa player Wu Man joined us in the studio to perform her unique interpretations of traditional Chinese music.
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Happy 269th Birthday, Mozart! 🎉 📻 Tune in all day today to hear tracks from the composer. You can listen at 105.9 FM, at on the WQXR app, or by asking your smart speaker to “Play WQXR.”
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RT @DrKirstenJ: Thank you @WQXR for playing my recording of Amy Beach's Gavotte fantastique, Op. 54/2 on your morning show! It is a fantast…
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The Calidore Quartet returns to the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space tonight at 7 pm for an evening of performance and conversation. Can't make it in-person? Watch them perform on our YouTube channel.
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The next New Sounds Live is at National Sawdust! Come see a new, neoclassical trio consisting of violinist Sarah Neufeld, multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry and cellist Rebecca Foon on January 30th at 7:30 pm. 🎟️ Tickets here: Image: Steven Sebring
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