1370 Connection: Arts Friday: Recent Episodes
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
Arts Friday is a monthly show offered as part of the daily 1370 Connection call-in program that deals with Rochester Area Arts & Culture topics.
A discussion of music, history, theater, race, American culture, and more with Lisa Gaye Dixon, currently starring in "Black Pearl Sings" at Geva Theatre, Ellen Koskoff - professor of Ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music, and Geva's Dawn Kellogg. Mona Seghatoleslami hosts.
A conversation about the role of arts and artistic endeavor in all of our lives, regardless of career or college major, focusing on arts initiatives taking place throughout the University of Rochester. Guests are Nigel Maister (Artistic Director of the UR International Theatre program) and choreographer/dancer Missy Pfohl Smith, who is artistic director
Every year as Christmas approaches, pretty much anywhere you live, there will be at least one local production of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Handel's Messiah, and the ballet The Nutcracker. On this Arts Friday program from 1370 Connection, take some time to learn a little bit more about these evergreen holiday favorites with local experts...
Brenda with look at the future of classical music with Washington Post classical music critic Anne Midgette and Ray Ricker, Acting Director of the Arts Leadership Program (ALP) at the Eastman School of Music.
Mona Seghatoleslami introduces us to Roger Corman, who has had an enormous impact on cinema over the past sixty years, directing, producing, and distributing over 600 films. Best known for The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and his Edgar Allan Poe cycle starring Vincent Price, Corman will be in Rochester to receive the 68th George Eastman Award in ....
Independent Cinema faces the same digital conversion challenges as mainstream theaters. The need for state of the art projectors, screens, sound systems and delivery mechanisms is impacting thousands of independent theaters across the country. WXXI Classical 91.5's Julia Figueras welcomes film critic Jack Garner and The Little's Derek Reis to talk with
There are many different ways to engage young people with music, through performing, listening, and other experiences. guests are: Bill Tiberio, Fairport High School (and Ithaca College School of Music, Eastman Community Music School, University of Rochester River Campus, and FLCC); Terry Smith, Harley School, Kidsemble with Gibbs & Main, and Bebop....
Classical 91.5's Mona Seghatoleslami leads a discussion on the role instruments play in telling stories.
Classical 91.5's Mona Seghatoleslami leads a discussion on the role sound plays in a movie.
Classical 91.5's Julia Figueras asks; How does a performing arts group plan for a season?
Guest host Mona Seghatoleslami. The art of books is not just in the words that are written and read. The physical objects themselves have historical and artistic significance. Two different perspectives: Andrea Reithmayr Rare Books/Special Collections Department of the University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library and Sally Snow from the Monroe County...
This year, the Memorial Art Gallery is marking its centenary. To celebrate, the MAG has opened the Centennial Sculpture Park and released a book, The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years. In the second hour of the June 7 edition of Arts Friday on 1370 Connection, Julia Figueras welcomes Chief Curator Marjorie Searl, Acting Director of Education Marlene...
Rochester singer/songwriter DM Stith on his upcoming 3-year tour premiering new music written for his unique voice, orchestra, and chorus. Conductor Priscilla Todd Brown and oboist Marjorie Relin discuss making music in later life Marjorie started playing the oboe when she was 63) and the New Horizons program, which offers adults opportunities to play.
A look at the impact of melody, harmony, and rhythm on children and adults with physical, communication, emotional and cognitive disabilities. Guests are Betsey King, Nazareth College Associate Professor of Music Therapy and Maria Battista-Hancock, Hochstein School Chair of Music Therapy.
Arts Friday; WXXI-FM's Mona Seghatoleslami explores the arts and cultural scene on the U of R's River Campus.
It's 24 hours from the re-opening of the Dryden Theater on the Eastman House campus; find out what's ahead for the area's long-standing venue for the presentation of classic films.
Meet the people of the upcoming Second Annual Fringe Festival as they begin assembling the roster of performers for the upcoming fest at the end of this summer.
A conversation with leaders of the Memorial Art Gallery as it celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Meet the people who are bringing you a signature performance of Rhapsody in Blue, including conductor Wade Stare, Dr. Paul Burgett and Eastman School of Music Dean Douglas Lowry.
Meet the people who are bringing the art of the tango back to Rochester with an upcoming recital at School of the Arts.
Susan Cotroneo and Eric Townell preview a forthcoming holiday presentation from the Lyric Opera of Rochester
The Rochester arts scene as 2012 draws to a close, with Sarah Lentini, executive director of the Arts and Cultural Council of Greater Rochester.
Dr. Philip Carli is a musicologist, sound recording historian, film scholar, film accompanist, pianist, professor and conductor. He has accompanied hundreds of films over the years. He can be heard in Rochester as the staff accompanist for the George Eastman House, which is currently featuring silent films on their Silent Tuesdays series.
Bob Smith speaks with Paul DeBarros, biographer of jazz great and NPR Piano Jazz host Marian McPartland.
We look at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center's new MePix exhibition, starting today, with center director Bleu Cease and featured artist Ann Oren
Noted science fiction authors Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, who recently headlined the international conference on high tech and gaming jointly hosted by RIT and the Strong Museum, discuss issues of creative freedom, intellectual property and copyright as they affect the literary and creative artist
Headlining the cast of Geva's production of You Can't Take It With You, we meet award winning television and film star and author Robert Vaughn
Brenda Tremblay interviews Eastman School professor emeritus Donald Hunsberger, noted conductor and contributor to the development of the modern wind ensemble, as he celebrates his 80th birthday.
Meet producing director Mark Cuddy and his team from GeVa Theater, and get a preview of the upcoming season.
Brenda Tremblay introduces you to Joe Blackburn, organist and volunteer who played an important role in bringing pipe organ music back to the Eastman House campus.
Playwright Ed Scutt and director Joan Van Ness discuss a new play on the life of writer Flannery O Connor which they'll soon present here in Rochester.
Brenda Tremblay interviews percussionist, Eastman School of Music faculty member and author John Beck
WXXI president and chief executive Norm Silverstein and Little Theater and WXXI board member Mark Cleary discuss the joining of forces between Rochester's public broadcasting organization and the region's principal venue for the showing of independent film, the Little Theater.
Gannett film critic Jack Garner examines the state of film today, and shares his list of the best of 2011.
Bob Smith speaks with the cast of a new production of "Six Characters In Search of an Author" about to premiere in Rochester.
Blues master, and former Rochester resident, Son House remembered by the author of a new biography and appreciation, Dan Beaumont of the University of Rochester
Meet the people behind a new exhibition of Norman Rockwell's iconic work, now on display at the George Eastman House, and learn more about the process that created some of his most famous illustrations.
Bleu Cease of the Rochester Contemporary Art Center discusses the 6x6x2011 Global Festival for the visual arts.
Meet Andy Olenick, Betsey Brayer and Kathryn D'Amanda, the people behind a new book on the Eastman Theater as it celebrates both its recent rebirth and its 90th season of culture and entertainment for the community.
Meet a genuine juke box hero, Lou Gramm, as he looks at not only his history with Black Sheep and Foreigner but his present and future in rock
In advance of a national PBS documentary in the "POV" series, we talk with America's best known whistleblower, the man who released the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg.
Meet filmmaker Mara Ahmed, whose latest film Pakistan One On One helps us understand one of the most strategically important countries in South Asia.
Images from the Civil War; meet Jamie Allen, Alison Nordström, and Caroline Yeager of the George Eastman House, who will take you inside the new exhibit of the photographic record of a war that started 150 years ago this spring.
The world of the professional musician and music teacher, highlighted by Eastman School professor Ramon Ricker, author of Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor; What You Won't Learn In Most Music Schools.
We talk with Rochester Contemporary Art Center director Bleu Cease and artists of the Mentors & Makers exhibition which begins this weekend
Jane Austen scholar and expert David Shapard joins us on the line in advance of this Sunday's Austen marathon to discuss the novelist's work and recent film and television adaptations.
Downtown makes news; we get the latest information from Rochester Downtown Development Corporation President Heidi Zimmer-Meyer.
A conversation with Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Lehman in advance of his appearance Friday evening at the Dryden Theater.
Susan Pettis-Daiss of the Memorial Art Gallery on the therapeutic role of the arts in helping people with chronic illness
Meet Doug Lowry, dean of the internationally renowned Eastman School of Music at the U of R, as the school celebrates its new and enhanced performance, instructional and rehearsal facilities at the Eastman Theater complex
The Memorial Art Gallery goes psychedelic; we talk with curator Marlene Hamann-Whitman about the current exhibit of art from the era of flower power, plus the on-going and upcoming exhibits.
Meet award-winning singer and actress Maureen McGovern, now starring at GeVa Theater in her new production, Carry It On, and her musical director Jeff Harris.
Meet the people of the Memorial Art Gallery who'll be bringing you an annual tradition--this month's Clothesline Arts Festival.
GeVa Theater artistic director Mark Cuddy and the people behind the season-launching production of Amadeus
Local artist Bleu Cease discusses the upcoming "State of the City" 2010 exhibition and what it will say about the state of our city today
U of R senior humanities professor Tom DiPiero; the golden anniversary of Harper Lee's groundbreaking novel To Kill A Mockingbird, and how the book--and the film based on it--impacted America in the 60s and today
Guest host Frank Cigelski speaks with some of Rochester's most cutting-edge visual artists.
Guest host Brenda Tremblay discusses Robert Schumann's musical legacy with scholars observing the Schumann bicentennial.
We present the first full broadcast of our entire interview with novelist Thomas Cobb, author of Crazy Heart, and creator of the character which won Jeff Bridges the Oscar for Best Actor.
Filmmaker Blake Wink joins us to discuss the upcoming start of production on his documentary film, Walk The Dream.
The state of cinema today; critic and author Jack Garner examines the contenders for this weekend's Oscars and the general quality of contemporary American film.
Kennedy Center executive director Michael Kaiser on how arts organizations can survive hard times.
Arts Friday; Social critic and playwright James Howard Kunstler, in advance of this weekend's dramatic reading of his new play Big Slide here in Rochester.
Arts Friday; new honors for Garth Fagan, the Tony-winning choreographer who joins us this hour.
Arts Friday; we meet playwright Stuart Loeb and director David Shakes to discuss their forthcoming dramatization of the life of Frederick Douglass, an event which is part of the celebration of Rochester's 175th anniversary as a city Hr. 2
Arts Friday; David Irwin and Gerard Floriano of SUNY Geneseo discuss how they're developing a new way to stage Handel's classic Messiah
WXXI-FM morning host Brenda Tremblay interviews Eastman School of Music historian Vincent Lenti, who has just released the second volume of his history of the school--telling the story of its growth to a world-class institution
Meet Robert Sawyer, Hugo award-winning author whose newly released novel Wake is now reaching bookshelves; he's the creator of the new ABC-TV hit Thursday night series FlashForward
We talk with Kennedy Center executive director Michael Kaiser about how he's working with local arts groups around the country to help them cope with hard times.
Meet the organizers of the Gateway Music Festival, who'll tell us how they're bringing live music to the city and working to expand music education opportunities for Rochester's children.
Guests: Jennifer Leonard, President & Executive Director of the Community Foundation; Kristen Kessler, Executive Director of Mercury Opera; Nancy Rees, Board Chair of Garth Fagan Dance.
Guests: Dan Beaumont, author of an upcoming biography of Son House; Jeff Harris, organizer of the weekend tribute concert. Blues artist Steve Grills is a tentative guest.
Arts Friday; Peter Iglinski hosts. The Art of Comedy; Swithun No (Artistic Director, Village Idiots), Scott Hildreth (member, Nuts & Bolts), and Carol Roberts (stand-up comedy instructor, Writers & Books).
Arts Friday; Peter Iglinski hosts. Music Education, featuring the winners of the RPO's Musicians Awards for Outstanding Musician Educators; Dr. Lon Berry (Spr Middle School, Webster), Bob Leader (Livonia High School), Fred Weingarten (Curriculum Chair of NYS School Music Association), and Nancy Hunt (Chair of Music Educators' Awards Committee)
Commemorating 50 years of The Elements of Style: Elaine Engst of Cornell University; Mark Garvey, author of Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style; Wendy Low, Director of Youth Education and Community Outreach at Writers & Books.
Jeff Tyzik is celebrating his 15th anniversary with the RPO. Jeff joins us to talk about music and his career.
Bill Ferguson of Garth Fagan Dance and Jessica Tretter of Rochester City Ballet consider the state of professional dance.
Sarah Miles Bolam and Thomas J. Bolam are the authors of The Presidents on Film, a comprehensive filmography of portrayals of U.S. presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. Show includes City newspaper and WXXI film critic George Grella.
On 1370 Connection Arts Friday, you'll meet a man who's focused his life's work on explaining why Stradivarius violins sound so amazing. His name is Joseph Nagyvary, and his field of expertise isn't even music. It's chemistry.