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Fishko Files from WNYC
WNYC's Sara Fishko with sound-rich essays on art, culture, music and media - past and present.
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Empire State: Going Up
Tomorrow, May 1st, marks the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building . As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, the building's r...
Stanwyck & Co.
In honor of this weekend's Oscars: WNYC's Sara Fishko with this Fishko Files from the archive, filled with the award-winning voices of some...
Poets' Voices
In honor of April, National Poetry Month , WNYC's Sara Fishko asks the question: what's the connection between poets' speaking voices, and t...
Peter and the Wolf
The celebrated children's tale with music, Peter and the Wolf - as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us - was first heard in Moscow in the spring of...
Bernstein, Made for TV
When we produced a feature on the celebrated Leonard Bernstein concert-broadcasts known as the Young People's Concerts (1958-1972), we were...
Sibling Harmony
The tradition of siblings singing together is as old as song. WNYC’s Sara Fishko looks at brothers, sisters, and sibling harmony in this edi...
Changes
A hundred years ago, as WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, a popular song appeared at a time similar to our own - when people desperately wanted t...
Michael Rabin
Michael Rabin , who lived from 1936 to 1972, was a midcentury, classical music phenomenon - a genuine violin prodigy, concertizing as a teen...
James M. Cain
James M. Cain 's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) was adapted for the movies seven times. The most celebrated version was release...
A Samuel Barber Classic
Pieces of music, as WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, can change in impact over time. On the 80th anniversary of a beloved violin concerto's prem...
The Chopin Paradox
The composer Frédéric Chopin , whose first published music appeared about two hundred years ago in the 1820s, eventually wrote hundreds of p...
Jacqueline Kennedy's White House
On Valentine's Day 1962, in the simpler days of television, all three networks aired a now-celebrated tour of the White House led by First L...
Message Pictures
The recent death of screenwriter Walter Bernstein has WNYC's Sara Fishko ruminating on the subject of dissent, protest and the movies, in th...
Alex North (1910-1991)
Composer Alex North was best known for his sharp and observant film scores, including the iconic music for "A Streetcar Named Desire" - but...
Chayefsky
It's 45 years since the film Network had its premiere. It seemed pretty far out in its time - but now seems remarkably prescient, thanks to...
MLK: 2 Films
Today, the new documentary film MLK/FBI is available to screen. As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, it's a dark and revealing update to civil ri...
Man with a Movie Camera
It's 125 years since the birth of Dziga Vertov , the Russian documentary film and newsreel director. That's a good excuse, says WNYC's Sara...
Life of the Party
In this last gasp of 2020, we face a New Year's without parties - unless you count the ones in this Fishko Files episode, composed of party...
Ida Lupino
The actress, director, and film business pioneer Ida Lupino 's 1950 film "Outrage" has been added to the Library of Congress's National Film...
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