This weeks quest is writer and good friend, Art Chansky.

Joseph Robinson, former Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic shares and discusses the following six pieces of oboe music played by him: (1)The first movement of the Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Camille Saint-Saens; (2) The last movement of the Oboe Concerto by Josef Haydn (with the NYP conducted by Zubin Mehta in March 1987); (3) The slow movement solo from the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms (with violinist Anne Sophie Mutter, Kurt Masur and the NYP); (4) The slow movement solo from Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP) ; (5) The dove-descending glimmer of hope in Shostakovich’s cataclysmic Symphony #5 (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP; (6)The last movement of Walter Piston’s Suite for Oboe and Piano..

Jon Meacham, author of “DESTINY AND POWER: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush ”

Nobel prize winner and beloved UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member Oliver Smithies died earlier this week..

Joseph Robinson, former Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic shares and discusses the following six pieces of oboe music played by him: (1)The first movement of the Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Camille Saint-Saens; (2) The last movement of the Oboe Concerto by Josef Haydn (with the NYP conducted by Zubin Mehta in March 1987); (3) The slow movement solo from the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms (with violinist Anne Sophie Mutter, Kurt Masur and the NYP); (4) The slow movement solo from Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP) ; (5) The dove-descending glimmer of hope in Shostakovich's cataclysmic Symphony #5 (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP; (6)The last movement of Walter Piston's Suite for Oboe and Piano..

William Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and leading historian of the American Presidency about the 2016 elections and those of the past.

Retired UNC-Chapel Hill professor Thomas Warburton explains the power of Handel’s Messiah.

The Reverend J. R. Manley died on Sunday December 11. He became pastor of First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill in September 1946 and served that congregation for more than 65 years.

Joseph Robinson, for 27 years from June 1978 until September 2005 Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic performing concerts, orchestral, and chamber works in concert halls around the world to international critical acclaim about his life and experiences in music as he records them for an upcoming memoir.

Joseph Robinson, for 27 years from June 1978 until September 2005 Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic performing concerts, orchestral, and chamber works in concert halls around the world to international critical acclaim about his life and experiences in music as he records them for an upcoming memoir.