WNYC's Fishko Files Podcast
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From WNYC, New York Public Radio, join WNYC's cultural attaché Sara Fishko for her personal radio essays on music, art, culture and media.
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Lalo Schifrin (The Fishko Files: Friday, 27 June 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Fri, Jun 27, 2008
A new book by composer Lalo Schifrin is called “Mission Impossible” – after Schifrin’s famous TV theme. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, Schifrin’s musical life has been rich with possibilities. Here is the next Fishko Files…
Schifrin's book will be available on Scarecrow Press.
Explore Lalo Schifrin's discography at dougpayne.com.
Watch the iconic "failure to communicate" scene in "Cool Hand Luke" at YouTube.com.
Watch Schifrin Perform the "Mission Impossible" theme live in Paris in 2007 at YouTube.com.
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From the Archives: Lives in Art (Originally Aired 11/16/07) (The Fishko Files: Thursday, 19 June 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Thu, Jun 19, 2008
The recent Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There," which features six different actors playing Bob Dylan, got Sara Fishko thinking about the problem of turning lives into art.
Audio clips of "Doctor Atomic" courtesy of San Francisco Opera.
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From the Archives: Cab Calloway (Originally aired 12/27/07) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 13 June 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Fri, Jun 13, 2008
The exuberant entertainer Cab Calloway of Hi-De-Ho fame turned 100 in 2007. Sara Fishko considers his vibrant legacy.
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From the Archives: Pianist Sara Davis Buechner (Originally Aired 11/6/98) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 06 June 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Fri, Jun 06, 2008
Piano playing can be a grueling art, demanding sacrifice and concentration, but offering beauty and fulfillment to the listener and the artist. Ten years ago, in 1998, WNYC's Sara Fishko spoke to a musician who struggles with the complexities of the instrument - and of her own personality.
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From the Archives: Danny Hoch (Originally Aired 5/21/99) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 30 May 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Fri, May 30, 2008
Solo performing is an art like no other. It brings with it the tension of being the only one on stage, as well as the luxury of total artistic control. One solo stage artist is using that control to communicate his strong ideas to audiences via a wild cast of characters. In this archival episode, Sara Fishko tried to get to know him.
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Musicians in Movies (The Fishko Files: Friday, 23 May 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Fri, May 23, 2008
The music world has always had a special appeal to filmmakers, who've used musical fact and fiction to great advantage in countless movies. But, as Sara Fishko tells us, its a particular image of the musician that they have created.
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From the Archives: Discovering Michael Rabin (Originally Aired 8/27/99) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 16 May 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Fri, May 16, 2008
Back in 1999, Sara Fishko rediscovered a great violinist with a tragic story attached. She and Itzhak Perlman examine the Michael Rabin legacy in this archival edition of The Fishko Files.
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Charles Boyer (The Fishko Files: Friday, 09 May 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Thu, May 15, 2008
Actor Charles Boyer had a continental flavor that went over big in the U.S. Ten of his most engaging films will be screened in New York this month. Sara Fishko asks why...in this edition of the Fishko Files...
To learn more about Hollywood's studio system of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and the "manufacture" of star actors and actresses, get a copy of Jeanine Basinger's book "The Star Machine" at amazon.com.
Check out details on the Lincoln Center film series "Charles Boyer and the Art of Seduction", running May 23-27 at Walter Reade Theater. 
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From the Archives: Remembering Chopin (Originally Aired 10/99) (The Fishko Files: Friday, 02 May 2008)
listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)Author: WNYC, New York Public Radio Fri, May 02, 2008
Frederic Chopin died October 17, 1849. In October 1999, musicians remembered the great Polish composer and his immeasurable contribution to Romantic music. Sara Fishko has more, on this archival edition of The Fishko Files.
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2002
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W007349

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