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Non-complacencies of the peignoir

Submitted by Brenda Tremblay on Thu, 10/10/2013 - 2:18pm

At least once a day someone asks me, “What time DO you get up?”
 
Good question.  The answer is 4:00 a.m. 

Greentopia brings nature-based percussion work to Rochester

If you come to the High Falls district this Sunday at 3pm, you’ll experience music and nature in a new way, in John Luther Adams’s Inuksuit.

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Arts Features with Mona

Rediscovering Margaret Ruthven Lang and More - Interview with Pianist Lucy Mauro

Composer Margaret Ruthven Lang's songs and piano pieces are treasures of American music, which have been championed and recorded by pianist Lucy Mauro and tenor Donald George.

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Arts Features with Mona

What's outstanding at the Shaw Festival

Submitted by Brenda Tremblay on Tue, 07/23/2013 - 11:29am

WXXI-FM listener William H. Petersen of Fairport (he's also Emeritus Dean & Professor of Bexley Hall Seminary) recently made an excursion to Niagara-on-the-Lake. Here is his rave.

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Andrew Alden Ensemble plays new music for old movies

Tonight at The Little Theatre, some classic movies – Nosferatu and Night of the Living Dead – will be screened with a new musical accompaniment, played live by the Boston-based Andrew Alden Ensemble. They came into WXXI’s studios to play some of their music and chat. 

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Arts Features with Mona

Recent Radio Conversations: Bill McGlaughlin, Art of Books, Music Therapy, etc.

Submitted by Mona Seghatoleslami on Wed, 07/10/2013 - 10:59pm

I've recently started including short interviews and features as a part of my time on the radio, broadcasting them alongside the music around 4:30pm. Have you noticed? Do you like hearing them on the radio? Here are links to the online versions of several recent interviews:

Exploring Bill: Interview with Bill McGlaughlin

Bill McGlaughlin is a composer, conductor, trombonist, and musical raconteur. He was the hostof public radio program St. Paul Sunday for 25 years, and now he’s celebrating 10 years of his “new” program Exploring Music. 

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Arts Features with Mona

Donated instruments find new life in Rochester school music programs

Have an old clarinet in the closet that you haven’t played since high school band? Perhaps a guitar that’s been gathering dust?

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Arts Features with Mona