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Listen Live - WSKG Listen Live - WSQXDiscover the arts and events through interviews with Bill Snyder, where he takes listeners behind the scenes with local performers to discuss their upcoming productions. Looking for classical music listings? They’re here.
Guitarist Paul Sweeny joins us to talk about the concert by the ensemble Early On. The concert, on Sunday, June 24 at 3pm in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at 183 Riverside Drive in Binghamton, is called ‘Early and Later On’ and features performances by young recorder players, and an old friend, Larry Zukof.
The Friends of Music of Stamford present the wind quintet WindSync on Sunday, June 17 at 3 in the Stamford United Methodist Church, 88 Main Street, Stamford. We hear from Kara LaMoure, the bassoonist of the Houston-based ensemble, about music that has been written especially for them, and the great amount of touring and educational work they do.
Photo credit: WindSync
Know Theatre presents three rarely-performed plays by Tennessee Williams: ’27 Wagons Full of Cotton’, ‘The Pretty Trap’, and ‘Interior: Panic’. Director Tim Gleason talks about the poetry of Tennessee Williams’ dialogue and how these plays pull back the curtain to reveal more about Williams’ craft of creating characters.
‘Fresh Air’ book critic Maureen Corrigan will be speaking at the 2018 Women’s Fund Breakfast hosted by the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation for South Central New York. She joins us by phone to tell how she became book critic for ‘Fresh Air’, how many books land on her front porch every week, and what it is like to discover a great book by a previously unknown author.
The Downtown Singers, led by Kristina Ruffo, present their Spring Concert. This year it features the music of Johannes Brahms. We hear from conductor Kristina Ruffo about the works, as well soloists Timothy LeFebvre, Michelle Thompson, and Erik Thompson.
Photo credit: Downtown Singers
Harry Segall’s comedy ‘Heaven Can Wait’ takes the stage performed by the Ti-Ahwaga Community Players. Director Linda Fenescey and actor Kerry Kane are on hand to talk about the prize-fighter who refuses to believe he has died. It turns out that it was just a clerical error, but putting things right proves difficult…and hilarious.
The Geneva Music Festival presents a wide range of music and various venues in and around Geneva. We hear from jazz legend, drummer T.S. Monk, who will be performing with his sextet at the Smith Opera house. The son of Thelonious Monk, he tells the amazing story of how he first approached his father about wanting to become a drummer — and what happened next.
Photo credit: courtesy Geneva Music Festival
The Little Delaware Youth Ensemble presents their spring concert in the Atrium of the Foothills Performing Arts Center on Sunday, June 3 at 3pm. Music Director Uli Speth joins us to talk about the program and the history of the group.
Photo credit: LDYE
The Harrington Gallery in Sidney presents work by artists Shelley Krapes-Mackinnon and Don MacKinnon, along with work by Daniel J. Harrington at the Harrington Gallery in Sidney. Originally from Brookly, Shelley still lives there part-time, but Don’s work has needed more space, so he is living full time in Deposit. Photo credit: Shelley Krapes-Mackinnon
The Exterminator Extravaganza celebrates the famous racehorse Exterminator, at one time Binghamton’s most famous resident. Bill Gorman joins us to talk about the First Friday event at Cooperative Gallery 213, and the Sunday, June 3 event at Temple Concord/Kilmer Mansion featuring music and a theatrical reading of ‘Old Bones the Wonder Horse’ by Southern Tier Actors Read. For reservations at the Sunday event, call 607/723-4620.