Arts and Culture

Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel

Wed, 03/09/2016 - 8:00pm

Examine the seminal events in the life of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind.

Saving the Titanic

Sun, 04/01/2012 - 10:00pm

Follow a dramatic interpretation of the Titanic’s final hours, told from the engineers’ point of view.

Masterpiece Classic presents Great Expectations

Sun, 04/01/2012 - 9:00pm

Meet Pip, the orphan boy who rises from blacksmith’s apprentice to gentleman under the patronage of a mysterious benefactor, who assures him of “great expectations.”

Music of the Baroque Holy Week

Sun, 04/08/2012 - 12:00pm

For Easter, Music of the Baroque presents Handel’s Messiah, conducted by Jane Glover.

Name that wave

Submitted by Brenda Tremblay on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 4:21pm

I was preparing a Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra concert for broadcast the other day, and it struck me that the two works on the program had wildly differing sound wave patterns, even though they were recorded at the same levels. This was interesting!

Here's a quiz. See if you can tell which of these sound files is . . .