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<p>As the new Mad Men season begins, WNYC’s Sara Fishko looks back to some “soft sell” advertising of the 1950s. Here is a new! Improved! Fishko Files…</p> <p>Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding -- better known as the celebrated duo Bob and Ray, two of the biggest names in comedy -- are the voices behind ...
<p>A new film has WNYC's Sara Fishko thinking about so-called "movie-going."  Here's a Fishko Files report.</p> <p> </p>
<p><strong><em>Room 237</em> is playing at <a href="http://www.ifccenter.com/films/room-237/" target="_blank">IFC</a> and at the <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/rodney-ascher-room-237" ...
<p>In jazz, says WNYC’s Sara Fishko, one thing leads to another.  For vocalist Jon Hendricks, who will perform in our area next week, it was some great instrumental jazz solos that led him to make an unforgettable leap into song. Here is the next <em>Fishko Files…</em></p> <p> </p>
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<h2>Previews for The Big Knife begin on March 22nd. It opens April 16th. <a href="http://www.broadway.com/shows/big-knife/" target="_blank"><strong>Click here</strong></a> for more information.</h2>
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<p>By 1940 the playwright Clifford Odets already had a Broadway hit (<em>Awake and Sing!), </em>a ...
<p>Pianist Garrick Ohlsson has had a life-long connection with Chopin’s music. Ohlsson talks Chopin with WNYC’s Sara Fishko, in this edition of Fishko Files…</p> <div>
<p><strong><em>WNYC Production Credits...</em></strong></p>
<p>Mix Engineer: Wayne Shulmister</p>
<p>Associate Producer: Laura ...
<p>WNYC’s Sara Fishko has been listening to some new, old recordings--which have just been unearthed.  She has this Fishko Files report.</p> <p> </p>
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<p>The Motion Picture Academy has recently created an official “Costume Designer’s Branch” of the organization, for the first time.  That seems a good reason to hear more about legendary Costume Designer Edith Head, whom WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us is still the most Oscar-nominated, Academy ...
<p>Classical concerts have their own rhythm and their own rituals. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, one of them is the encore.</p> <p>"Encore" comes from the French word meaning “again," and may have originated spontaneously -- perhaps from audiences demanding more at the end of a concert.  </p>
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<p>An abstract painting got WNYC’s Sara Fishko thinking as she visited the Montclair Art Museum...</p> <p> </p>
<p><em>The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913 opens at <a href="http://www.montclair-art.com/exhibitions-details.php?id=31" target="_blank">The Montclair Art Museum</a> on ...
<p>New York Fashion Week begins today, as designers and retailers look ahead to the coming season. But, as WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, Fashion Week has a past, too. Here’s the next Fishko Files…</p> <p>Eleanor Lambert (pictured at left) - was a savvy publicist with a love of fashion. She's credited ...
<p>Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky would have been 90 this week.  As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, the multiple-Oscar-winning Chayefsky fought to the death for every fierce and furious word he wrote.  Here is the next Fishko Files…</p> <div>
<p>From Paddy Chayefsky's film "Network"</p>
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<p>In this edition of Fishko Files, WNYC's Sara Fishko looks at the past and present of film criticism, and its variable impact over a couple of generations. To hear some current film critics, visit the 92nd Street Y tonight for the “Pre-Oscar Film Critics Roundtable,” featuring film critics discussing ...
<p>Some of the major struggles and victories of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s coincided with a most active period for jazz music.  In honor of Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, WNYC’s Sara Fishko looks at a few cases where the movement and the music came together.  Here’s the next ...
<p>In 1935, Jascha Heifetz made the first recording, ever, of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. In this edition of Fishko Files, WNYC’s Sara Fishko reflects on the power of the recording –and the music.</p> <p> </p>
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<p><span>Sibelius Concerto Recordings </span></p>
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<p>In the late 1940s Ida Lupino, the British born, actress-director, was a “hyphenate” before the term was even invented. WNYC’S Sara Fishko looks at the work of this Hollywood dynamo in this edition of Fishko Files…</p> <p> </p>
<p><img src="http://parmenides.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/Ida%20Lupino%20Picture.JPG" ...
<p>Ethan Iverson and his band The Bad Plus re-interpreted Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring nearly 100 years after its premiere.  We talked to Iverson about the piece for our special program "<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/fishko/2012/dec/05/" target="_blank">Culture Shock 1913</a>," and our conversation ...
<p>Since jazz began, composers have had the impulse to “jazz up” the more traditional symphony orchestra. Has it been a happy partnership between the two styles? Here is the next Fishko Files…</p> <p>Since the 20s, composers of all kinds have been trying to write music that combines jazz and symphonic ...
<p>With network television shows in their mid-season breaks, WNYC’s Sara Fishko looks back to a  New Frontier-era television series that dared to confront topics that no other series would touch at that time. Here is the next Fishko Files…</p> <p><em>"</em>The Defenders" was an expertly written ...
<p>Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” will be presented several times this weekend in New York. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, there’s drama in the background of this ever-popular children’s classic.  Here is the next Fishko Files…</p> <p>The Little Orchestra Society's Lolli-pops ...
<p>What a year was 1913!  In an exhibition in a  New York Armory, Cubism and abstraction were revealed to the American public for the first time.  In Vienna, audience members at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot.  And in Paris, Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s ...
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