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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Remembering World War II (The Fishko Files: Friday, 21 September 2007)
Once again, World War II is alive in popular culture. This year alone we can expect the launch of 3 new films, a 14-hour documentary TV series, and at least 8 new books on the subject. WNYC???s Sara Fishko, considers our endless fascination with the most documented event in history. Recommended R ...
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From The Archives: Warhol (Originally Aired 7/20/01) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 31 August 2007)
Andy Warhol's multi-million dollar house is on the market, and in the news. Warhol himself, as Sara Fishko tells us, has never really been out of the public consciousness.
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Composers Who Perform (The Fishko Files: Friday, 24 August 2007)
Last Tuesday another recording of Maurice Ravel's famous "Pavane" was released. That makes 20 in the past year alone, and each one of them is performed by a different musician with a personal touch. This proliferation of Pavanes has Sara Fishko thinking about classical composers, performance and th ...
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From The Archives: Rachmaninoff (Originally Aired 9/7/01) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 10 August 2007)
In this edition of the Fishko Files, Sara Fishko reexamines the music and impact of pianist and composer Sergei Rachminoff, on the occasion several 2001 retrospectives.
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Bonnie and Clyde (The Fishko Files: Friday, 03 August 2007)
It???s just 40 years since the release of the movie "Bonnie and Clyde." The film opened in the so-called Summer of Love, which was also the summer of rioting in New Jersey and new initiatives in the Vietnam War. As Sara Fishko tells us, the film made history sizzle; it also divided critics, thrille ...
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From The Archives: Golden Age (Originally Aired November 30, 2001) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 27 Ju...
It's no secret that the classical music world wants to reach new audiences with CDs, films about music, and crossover albums. But Sara Fishko finds people looking, at the moment, in an unexpected direction.
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From The Archives: Boxing Movies (Originally Aired January 18, 2002) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 20 ...
Muhammed Ali turned 60 years old yesterday, and a film about his boxing years is now in theaters. Sara Fishko has seen that film, among many others... In this Fishko File.
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From The Archives: Left Hands (Originally Aired February 1, 2002) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 06 Jul...
Musicians, like sports figures, have to contend with issues of fitness and injury. Sara Fishko looks at one pianist who has more than adapted to a new way of playing.
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From The Archives: Orchestration (Originally Aired February 2, 2002) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 29 ...
Toiling behind the scenes of Broadway musicals, new and revived, are the orchestrators. Here is a Fishko File.
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From The Archives: Classical Music Editing (Originally Aired April 12, 2002) (The Fishko Files: Fri...
Last time you bought a classical recording, maybe you wondered where the edits were. Sara Fishko looks at the reality and the illusion of the classical CD, in this edition of the Fishko Files.
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From The Archives: Ned Rorem (Originally aired on May 10, 2002) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 18 May 2...
Ned Rorem is the undisputed master of the American art song and, as Sara Fishko tells us, he has plenty to say about the form... Ned Rorem's newest book is called "A Ned Rorem Reader."
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From The Archives: Boxing Movies (Originally Aired January 18, 2002) (The Fishko Files: Fr...
Muhammed Ali turned 60 years old yesterday, and a film about his boxing years is now in theaters. Sara Fishko has seen that film, among many others... In this Fishko File.
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Stanwyck & Co. (The Fishko Files: Friday, 13 July 2007)
Though her fans have been observing it all year, the official Barbara Stanwyck centennial is this Monday. In this edition of the Fishko Files, Sara Fishko considers the remarkable collection of strong-willed, distinctive Hollywood women who populated movies when the studio system was in full swing. ...
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From The Archives: Left Hands (Originally Aired February 1, 2002) (The Fishko Files: Frida...
Musicians, like sports figures, have to contend with issues of fitness and injury. Sara Fishko looks at one pianist who has more than adapted to a new way of playing.
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From The Archives: Orchestration (Originally Aired February 2, 2002) (The Fishko Files: F...
Toiling behind the scenes of Broadway musicals, new and revived, are the orchestrators. Here is a Fishko File.
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Surveillance (The Fishko Files: Friday, 22 June 2007)
Sixty years ago this month, the debut of a new radio show--using a hidden microphone--blurred the line between surveillance and entertainment. These days, as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, the line is blurrier than ever. Here is the next Fishko Files. More: Profiling, an exhibition of two vide ...
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From The Archives: Classical Music Editing (Originally Aired April 12, 2002) (The Fishko F...
Last time you bought a classical recording, maybe you wondered where the edits were. Sara Fishko looks at the reality and the illusion of the classical CD, in this edition of the Fishko Files.
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The Mystique of the Horn Player (The Fishko Files: Friday, 08 June 2007)
Today a restored version of a film made 20 years ago about the horn player and singer Chet Baker re-opens in New York. It???s combination of fact and fantasy has WNYC???s Sara Fishko trying to make sense of the horn-player???s special place in musical mythology. Here is the next Fishko Files. ...
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Hoagy Carmichael (First aired April 26, 2002) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 01 June 2007)
The work of Hoagy Carmichael, the musician and movie actor born more than a hundred years ago, is in a period of rediscovery. Richard Sudhalter's book, Stardust Melody, published by Oxford University Press, is recently out. And so is Bill Charlap's CD of Carmichael songs, on the Blue Note label, ent ...
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City on Screen (The Fishko Files: Friday, 25 May 2007)
With the classic New York movie, Midnight Cowboy (1969), screening at Lincoln Center this weekend, WNYC's Sara Fishko considers the films of that era and what they say about the city. More Activities: See Midnight Cowboy at Lincoln Center as part of the John Schlesinger retrospective. ...
WNYC's Fishko Files
