WNYC's Fishko Files
From WNYC, New York Public Radio, join WNYC's cultural attaché Sara Fishko for her personal radio essays on music, art, culture and media.
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Five Four Time (The Fishko Files: Friday, 18 July 2008)
A new song by the popular Icelandic group Sigur Ros is notable for having no time signature at all; its impossible to count. It has WNYCs Sara Fishko pondering time, music, and especially the number 5. Here is the next Fishko Files. Listen to Stuart Isaacoff play "Castle Half and Half" in 5/4: ...
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From the Archives: Hugo Friedhofer (Originally Aired on 4/14/06) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 11 July...
More than 25 years have passed since Hugo Friedhofer died. He was one of Americas most interesting composers, and his death was roundly ignored. Sara Fishko thinks its about time somebody remembered the life and work of the Academy Award- winning movie composer.
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From The Archives: Diamond Dances (Originally Aired 4/28/06) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 04 July 200...
New York was been filled with great choreographers from all over the world in the Spring of 2006. They were rehearsing their dances for the New York City Ballets Diamond Project. In this archive edition of the Fishko Files, Sara Fishko caught them thinking and talking about their work.
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Lalo Schifrin (The Fishko Files: Friday, 27 June 2008)
A new book by composer Lalo Schifrin is called Mission Impossible after Schifrins famous TV theme. As WNYCs Sara Fishko tells us, Schifrins musical life has been rich with possibilities. Here is the next Fishko Files Schifrin's book will be available on Scarecrow Press. Explore Lalo ...
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From the Archives: Lives in Art (Originally Aired 11/16/07) (The Fishko Files: Thursday, 19 June 20...
The recent Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There," which features six different actors playing Bob Dylan, got Sara Fishko thinking about the problem of turning lives into art. Audio clips of "Doctor Atomic" courtesy of San Francisco Opera.
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From the Archives: Cab Calloway (Originally aired 12/27/07) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 13 June 2008)
The exuberant entertainer Cab Calloway of Hi-De-Ho fame turned 100 in 2007. Sara Fishko considers his vibrant legacy.
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From the Archives: Pianist Sara Davis Buechner (Originally Aired 11/6/98) (The Fishko Files: Friday...
Piano playing can be a grueling art, demanding sacrifice and concentration, but offering beauty and fulfillment to the listener and the artist. Ten years ago, in 1998, WNYC's Sara Fishko spoke to a musician who struggles with the complexities of the instrument - and of her own personality.
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From the Archives: Danny Hoch (Originally Aired 5/21/99) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 30 May 2008)
Solo performing is an art like no other. It brings with it the tension of being the only one on stage, as well as the luxury of total artistic control. One solo stage artist is using that control to communicate his strong ideas to audiences via a wild cast of characters. In this archival episode, Sa ...
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Musicians in Movies (The Fishko Files: Friday, 23 May 2008)
The music world has always had a special appeal to filmmakers, who've used musical fact and fiction to great advantage in countless movies. But, as Sara Fishko tells us, its a particular image of the musician that they have created.
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From the Archives: Discovering Michael Rabin (Originally Aired 8/27/99) (The Fishko Files: Friday, ...
Back in 1999, Sara Fishko rediscovered a great violinist with a tragic story attached. She and Itzhak Perlman examine the Michael Rabin legacy in this archival edition of The Fishko Files.
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Charles Boyer (The Fishko Files: Friday, 09 May 2008)
Actor Charles Boyer had a continental flavor that went over big in the U.S. Ten of his most engaging films will be screened in New York this month. Sara Fishko asks why...in this edition of the Fishko Files... To learn more about Hollywood's studio system of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and the "manufa ...
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From the Archives: Remembering Chopin (Originally Aired 10/99) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 02 May 20...
Frederic Chopin died October 17, 1849. In October 1999, musicians remembered the great Polish composer and his immeasurable contribution to Romantic music. Sara Fishko has more, on this archival edition of The Fishko Files.
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From the Archives: Lenya (Originally Aired 3/2/00) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 25 April 2008)
This Fishko Files was produced in 2000 for the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Kurt Weill. Over the years Weill's music, as Sara Fishko tells us, has lent itself to a variety of interpretations, despite the imprint of one spectacular performer.
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From the Archives: Play-Along (Originally Aired 1/28/00) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 18 April 2008)
Being a musician, even a good amateur musician, requires hours of practice alone with one's instrument. But many players prefer company, and still rely on a system that's now half-a-century old.
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Jazz Soundtrack (The Fishko Files: Friday, 11 April 2008)
Jazz has become so treasured as a part of film-scoring that it's the subject of a new Museum of Modern Art exhibit, opening next week. As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us in this edition of the Fishko Files, the connection between jazz and American film was especially vibrant during one mid-century mome ...
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From the Archives: Miklos Rozsa, Cross-Composer (Originally Aired 4/21/00) (The Fishko Files: Frida...
Miklos Rozsa was one of Hollywood's most celebrated composers. His work on film noir classics in the 40's and epic films in the 50's was, and still is, well known. But it turns out Rozsa had another composing life.
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From the Archives: Strange Fruit (Originally Aired 5/19/00) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 28 March 200...
In the late 1930's, a short, simple song both horrified and fascinated those who heard it. David Margolick's book shows there is still a controversy and painful history surrounding 'Strange Fruit' and it's story.
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The Other Juno (The Fishko Files: Friday, 21 March 2008)
A short-lived Broadway musical called ???Juno??? is coming back for a brief run. It???s not to be confused with the current hit movie about a pregnant teen. As WNYC???s Sara Fishko tells us, the 1950???s 'Juno' was not exactly a hit. Here???s the next Fishko Files.
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From the Archives: Practice (Originally Aired 6/16/00) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 14 March 2008)
Nearly everyone has either practiced a musical instrument, or lived next door to someone practicing. Sara Fishko visited practice rooms from upper Manhattan to Fort Worth, Texas, to ask the question, 'How do you practice?' Here's the next Fishko Files.
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From the Archives: Moonlight Sonata (Originally Aired 7/14/00) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 07 March ...
There's another new recording of an old piece of classical music. But the Moonlight Sonata is a piece, Sara Fishko tells us, that brings out the 'personality' in a multitude of performers.
WNYC's Fishko Files
