WFMT: Critical Thinking and Critic's Choice
Summary: WFMT's "Critic-at-Large" Andrew Patner presents Critical Thinking, an hour-long weekly program of conversation about the arts, and Critic's Choice, a weekly feature in which Patner shares his observations on arts and culture.
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Podcasts:
In a new program, Andrew's guests are Carlos Kalmar, principal conductor, and Leigh Levine (pronounced — LEE Luh-VINE), interim executive director, of the Grant Park Music Festival. The Festival and the Chicago Park District announced today that Carlos Kalmar has also been named artistic director for a five year term [...]
In a new program, Andrew reads a story or two from James Alan McPherson's 1969 collection: Hue and Cry Listen [...]
Andrew Patner discusses the roller coaster of classical music news and reminds listeners not to miss the great opportunities now in Chicago [...]
Andrew presents a selection of "Music for ‘Spring' " (Rebroadcast from 2008) [...]
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Andrew presents a new program, the second of a series: Who's Afraid of Milton Babbitt? An exploration of the music and contributions of the American composer, theorist, and teacher who died in January at 94. In Part 2: Works for solo piano, string quartet, and soprano and chamber ensemble [...]
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Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, we look back at the introductory program from Abraham Lincoln: Reconsidered. Series Introduction Guest: George Anastaplo (Lincoln scholar, philosopher, and professor of law, Loyola University of Chicago) [...]
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Andrew's guest is Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti in the first of several programs of new conversations since his return from Italy as he prepares CSO performances of Verdi's Otello for Chicago April 7, 9, and 12, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony on April 8, and a tour to New York's Carnegie Hall April 15 more [...]
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A rebroadcast of our 2009 conversation with pianist Diane Walsh about her new recording of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations (JDR: Jonathan Digital Recordings) and her work as onstage pianist and musical director for the new Broadway play about their composition, 33 Variations [...]
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A rebroadcast of our 2008 conversation with Chicago architect and historian Wilbert Hasbrouck on his book, The Chicago Architectural Club: Prelude to the Modern. (The Monacelli Press) [...]
