WFMT: Critical Thinking and Critic's Choice
Summary: WFMT's "Critic-at-Large" Andrew Patner presents Critical Thinking, an hour-long weekly program of conversation about the arts, and Critic's Choice, a weekly feature in which Patner shares his observations on arts and culture.
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Fall is here, and Andrew is your guide to the musical happenings the season brings.
Memorials to cabaret artists Johnny Frigo and John Wallowitch. (Rebroadcast from 2007)
In the second of a two-part Critic's Choice (continued from last week), Andrew comments on the demotion of New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn, as well as 100 years of John Cage.
Andrew shares a listen to selections from the late Marvin Hamlisch's score to the Pulitzer Prize- and multiple Tony-Award-winning 1975 show A Chorus Line. He also has some recordings of another artist with surprising parallels to Hamlisch, who died at 68 last month. The musical A Class Act, on the life and early death of A Chorus Line's lyricist, Ed Kleban, is being presented now by Chicago's Porchlight Music Theatre at Theatre Wit.
In the first of a two-part Critic's Choice (to be continued next week), Andrew comments on the demotion of New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn, as well as 100 years of John Cage.
Andrew discusses the International Beethoven Project's Beethoven Festival: Revolution 2012 with pianist and artistic director George LePauw. The second Chicago Beethoven Festival comprises 60 events over nine days -- this Saturday September 8 through Sunday September 16 -- with an emphasis on rising young artists from around the world and around the city.
Andrew shares the goings-on for the end of August.
Andrew talks with the director, lead cast members, and pianist from TimeLine Theatre Company's Chicago première production of 33 Variations, Moisès Kaufman's Broadway hit play on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, and much more. 33 Variations runs from August 24 through October 21 at Stage 773, 1225 West Belmont. 773.327.5252
Andrew updates us on what's going on in Santa Fe.
Andrew shares a new solo recording by young Israeli pianist David Greilsammer that combines Baroque works with contemporary pieces by Feldman, Lachenmann, and commissions from young Israelis Matan Porat and Nimrod Sahar. David Greilsammer is in recital this Friday at 6:00 p.m. in Ravinia's Bennett-Gordon Hall.
In the second of two programs on new ways to present new music, Andrew's guests are Seth Boustead and Jesse McQuarters, host and producer, respectively, of WFMT's new weekly program Relevant Tones.
In the first of two programs on new ways to present new music, Andrew's guests are Seth Boustead and Jesse McQuarters, host and producer of WFMT's new weekly program Relevant Tones.
Andrew discusses the state of art museums in Los Angeles.
A conversation with Chicago-native Jack Zimmerman, whose CD of autobiographical stories and original music entitled The Gift is gaining national popularity.
Andrew discusses the Draft Chicago Cultural Plan 2012 recently unveiled by the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events after months of public discussion: http://www.chicagoculturalplan2012.com [...]
