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 shares some music and excerpts from the ceremonies awarding the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize in music to Riccardo Muti in Stockholm just a few days ago [...]
Andrew discusses Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti's initiatives in broadening repertoire [...]
Tonight on Critical Thinking, Andrew's guests are cast and production team members of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, opening this Wednesday night on Navy Pier and running through November [...]
Andrew describes two exciting exhibits at the Art Institute of Chicago. &nbsp [...]
Andrew presents this report from beside the north lion in front of the Art Institute of Chicago. &nbsp [...]
Andrew speaks about numerous items in the music world [...]
Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw vacationing together on the island of Brioni in 1929 — Associated Press My guest is author Jay R. Tunney, discussing his new book The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw (Firefly Books, Buffalo and Richmond Hill, Ontario) about the long and deep friendship between his father, the more [...]
Andrew recalls September 10-11, 2001. &nbsp [...]
Andrew reads poetry of the late Samuel Menashe, who passed away last week at the age of 85. &nbsp [...]
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 [...]
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. &nbsp [...]
Andrew's guest is Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in a rebroadcast of a conversation while he was making Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Hall recital appearances. &nbsp [...]
Andrew previews the important new Chicago documentary film opening this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center [...]
Andrew reads from a collection of Alan Goldfarb poems [...]
Andrew's guest is Krzysztof Penderecki, in a conversation recorded last month when the distinguished Polish composer and conductor was in Chicago leading concerts at the Grant Park Music Festival. &nbsp [...]
