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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Podcasts:
Andrew speaks with Maestro David Robertson [...]
Andrew reads two poems by his latest Critical Thinking guest, W.S. Di Piero, winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize [...]
Andrew talks about this week's can't-miss ballet performances [...]
In the second of two parts, Andrew shares a new conversation with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti, who closed the 2011-2012 CSO season with three concerts over the weekend [...]
In the first of two parts, Andrew shares a new conversation with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti, now in his season-closing residency with the CSO through this Sunday [...]
Andrew speaks with Chicago Symphony Orchestra co-Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates (DJ Masonic) about Mercury Soul, a collaborative classical/electronic (electrassical!?) event which takes place Friday, June 15 at the Metro in Chicago. &nbsp [...]
Andrew discusses a multitude of music events to experience this month [...]
Andrew discusses the age-old classical music quandary: to clap, or not to clap [...]
Andrew shares Daniel Barenboim's statement regarding the late baritone and conductor, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [...]
Andrew talks with renowned pianist Emanuel Ax, curator of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Keys to the City Piano Festival running from May 23 through June 12. &nbsp [...]
With Studs Terkel‘s centennial anniversary approaching, Andrew presents his 2005 WFMT interview with Studs discussing his then new book, And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey. Studs talks about his disc jockey days in general, his love of opera, and the music editions of The Studs Terkel Program which aired daily for 45 years, from more [...]
Andrew comments on the celebration of Studs Terkel's 100th birthday year, as well as Goodman Theatre's staging of Iceman Cometh [...]
With an assist from Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mead Composer-in-Residence Anna Clyne, Andrew previews two Chicago upcoming new-music events from CSO MusicNOW and ensemble dal niente with Italian pianist/conductor/curator Marino Formenti [...]
In the second of two programs of music from an important new reissue on CD, Andrew asks "Who's Afraid of Carl Ruggles?" [...]
In the first of two programs of music from an important new reissue on CD, Andrew asks "Who's Afraid of Carl Ruggles?" [...]
