Classical New York

This week our host and artistic director Clemency Burton-Hill is in conversation with the members of the genre defying ensemble and "classically trained garage band" Time For Three. Here, Ranaan Meyer, Charles Yang, Nick Kendall, talk about improvisation, connection with the audiences, taking the freedom of moving between genres and playing hungover.And then they play that piece, their "desert island" companion: Bach's Chaconne – or their take on it. 

Deborah Borda, President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic speaks to WQXR's James Bennett about the current crisis and the need to re-invent the future. We learn how the Orchestra navigated the first days and weeks of the Corona epidemic and what the implications are for its next season, music programming, women composers and conductors, and the scheduled refurbishment of David Geffen Hall. 

WQXR host Zev Kane talked to Pianist Jeremy Denk about his music, music making in times of a pandemic, and his upcoming residency at the Greene Space which he will kick off with a deep dive into Bach’s life and four of the most fascinating moments from Book 1 of his most iconic work, The Well-Tempered Clavier. 

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson joined us in our studio a couple of weeks ago to talk with evening host Terrance McKnight about his new album, the musical connection between Claude Debussy and Jean-Philippe Rameau and his first piano lessons back home in Iceland. 

Zev Kane is talking to Violinist Leonidas Kavakos about Beethoven, the right time and place, and the power of music.