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 comments on Brian Dickie's exit at Chicago Opera Theater [...]
Conversation and music with eminent pianist, scholar, and critic Charles Rosen who turns 85 next month. To celebrate this milestone, we pick up where we left off last week with the second of a pair of conversations with Rosen, which took place five years ago on the eve of his 80th birthday [...]
Conversation and music with eminent pianist, scholar, and critic Charles Rosen who turns 85 next month. To celebrate this milestone, Andrew rebroadcasts the first of a pair of conversations with Rosen, which took place five years ago on the eve of his 80th birthday [...]
Critic's Choice is a weekly feature in which WFMT's Critic-at-Large Andrew Patner shares his observations on arts and culture, from performances at Orchestra Hall to happenings in overlooked Chicago neighborhoods to festivals around the world [...]
The second of our two-part program with Glenn Watkins on the topic of his book The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory (W.W. Norton) [...]
Andrew reviews Phil Grabsky's new film In Search of Haydn [...]
The first of our two-part program with Glenn Watkins on the topic of his book The Gesualsdo Hex: Music, Myth, and Memory (W.W. Norton) [...]
Andrew reviews Calixto Bieito's staging of Camino Real at Goodman Theatre [...]
Andrew's guest is Spanish opera and theatre stage director Calixto Bieito, discussing his controversial European opera stagings and his new production and adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real at the Goodman Theatre, running now through April [...]
Andrew reads more from James Thurber's Fables for Our Time [...]
Andrew presents a new conversation (recorded Sunday 3/11) with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti [...]
Andrew reads more from James Thurber's Fables for Our Time [...]
The Grant Park Music Festival recently announced its 78th summer season of 10 weeks of concerts beginning in mid-June with memberships now available. To mark this, Andrew presents a rebroadcast of a conversation with Tony Macaluso, lead author of the richly-illustrated and -documented book Sounds of Chicago's Lakefront: A Celebration of the Grant Park Music more [...]
Andrew discusses Lyric Opera of Chicago‘s commission of the new opera Bel Canto and the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest's upcoming performance of Missa Solemnis at Orchestra Hall [...]
A conversation with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mead Composer-In-Residence Mason Bates [...]
