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Bach 360°: Chorales, Cantatas and an Oratorio for Easter
Two things are certain about the classical music calendar: Handel at Christmas and Bach at Easter. Of course, Bach wrote a joyous Christmas Oratorio that is also heard in December, but his most...
View ArticleLet the Round Earth Rejoice
With hymns, chorales, chants and organ solos, Pipedreams this week reflects on spring's rebirth at Easter.Program details:ROBERT WILLIAMS: Jesus Christ is Risen Today–Palmer Memorial Choir &...
View ArticleA Lenten Mix
The season of Lent is a time when Christians prepare for Easter Sunday. And it’s inspired countless composers over the centuries. For this week’s Choral Mix, Kent Tritle presents an hour of choral...
View ArticleBach's St. Matthew Passion
Composed in 1727, it’s one of two surviving settings of the last days of Jesus Christ composed by J.S. Bach. Host Bill McGlaughlin explores the history of this masterpiece and sample different recordings.
View ArticleFaith Based Films Flood the Screen
You might get away with skipping church, if you go to the movies instead.This week, “Heaven is for Real,” starring Greg Kinnear, hits theaters. It's the fourth biblical or faith-based film to go into...
View ArticleThe Sound of Easter Epics
Hollywood's Biblical epics do everything on a large scale, including the pomp, drama, and heavenly choruses of their film scores. Host David Garland offers suites from "King of Kings," by Miklos Rozsa,...
View ArticleAn Easter Offering
In celebration of Easter, Pipedreams presents music from the earliest surviving organ book to contemporary compositions and of-the-moment improvisations.Program details:WILLIAM HARRIS: Fantasy on the...
View ArticleEating the Easter Bunny
Spring is the season of new life—chicks, lambs, bunnies. In the country, they are everywhere in their abundant downy glory. But in the city they are most easily enjoyed in their delectable chocolate...
View ArticleEaster Around The (Old) World
Choral music hits a high point come Easter time. For more than 1,000 years, this point in the Christian calendar has inspired composers to write music that is both joyous and contemplative. On this...
View ArticleHoliday Food, Best New Chefs, and a Bagel Shop Union
Melissa Clark, New York Times“A Good Appetite” columnist, with special recipe ideas for a stress-free Passover and Easter. Dana Cowin, Food & Wine editor in chief, with Bryce Shuman, from Betony in...
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Music for the Easter-Passover Overlap
With both Passover and Good Friday falling on the same day this year – followed, of course, by Easter – the weekend's musical menu is as rich as the culinary one. Whether you celebrate with brisket or...
View ArticleNew Takes on Classic Passover and Easter Recipes
Melissa Clark will discuss new and innovative twists on old classics for Passover and Easter. She’s the James Beard award-winning food writer whose “A Good Appetite” column appears on Wednesdays in the...
View ArticleLeonard's Good Friday Gospel Radio Hour
Leonard hosts his annual Good Friday Gospel hour, playing gospel classics that tell the story of Easter. 10 seconds of Leonard rocking out to his Good Friday Gospel music special!...
View ArticleAn Easter with Kangaroos
Easter means egg hunts, chocolate bunnies.... and petting zoos.Several places around the city are bringing bunnies, chicks and even kangaroos for people to play with in light of the holidays.The...
View ArticleMusic for Easter
Whether in Baroque chorale-preludes, Victorian anthems or contemporary meditations, compositions for Easter are always uplifting.Program playlist:HORATIO PARKER: Light’s glittering morn –Choirs of...
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In Pictures: the Easter Bonnet Festival
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View ArticleEaster Rising Centennial Reveals Lessons from a Violent Past
This year, commemorations are taking place on both sides of the Atlantic to mark the 100th anniversary of the so-called Easter Rising.On April 24, 1916 — the day after Easter — some 1,600 Irish...
View ArticleEthan Hawke, Breaking Bad's Saul Goodman, Sara Moulton's Easter Recipes
Sara Moulton shares tips and tricks for improving everyday meals just in time for Easter! A book of legal advice from the beloved but fictional criminal defense lawyer Saul Goodman, as told to his...
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Sara Moulton Brightens Up Everyday Meals and Answers Your Easter Questions
Chef Sara Moulton shares her favorite ways to improve everyday meals in her latest cookbook Sara Moulton's Home Cooking 101: How to Make Everything Taste Better. She offers practical tips and...
View ArticleLeonard's Annual Good Friday Gospel Hour
Leonard hosts his annual Good Friday Gospel hour, playing gospel classics that tell the story of Easter.PlaylistIntro: What Kind of Man is This - James Cleveland1. The Sun Didn’t Shine - Alphabetical...
View ArticleEaster and Spring on Radio Deluxe
Saturday morning at 10AM ET, celebrate Easter and Spring with world-renowned musicians, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey as they spin their favorite springtime records!
View ArticleBonus Leonard Lopate Weekend Podcast: Lidia Bastianich's Italian Easter
Welcome to the Leonard Lopate Bonus Weekend Podcast. For Easter Sunday, we decided to bring you one of our favorite interviews with Lidia Bastianich! She discusses the foods and traditions of an...
View ArticleMichael Barone Presents Easter Pipe Organ Music
On Easter Sunday at 11 pm, Michael Barone hosts a program of lesser-known organ works written for the holiday and featuring performances from around the world. Among the selections are recordings of...
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From Fifth Avenue to the Vatican, celebrating Easter around the globe
From church services to pastel eggs — Easter traditions of both a religious and secular nature were well on display across the globe on Sunday.RELATED CONTENTPhotos: the White House Easter Egg Roll...
View ArticleSanders' Impressive Caucus Wins and Other Political News
A suicide bomber's attack on a playground in Lahore, Pakistan left at least 69 people dead. It's being reported that the attack was carried out by a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, and it...
View ArticleCelebrate Spring with Radio Deluxe
Saturday morning at 10AM ET, celebrate Spring with world-renowned musicians, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey as they spin some of their favorite records!
View ArticleTop Choral Directors Share Their Favorite Easter Music
Choral music uses human voices to tell human stories. From the sacred to the secular, the sorrowful to the celebratory, there is something profoundly moving about voices raised together in song. Much...
View ArticleEaster Hats on Parade
Each year, hundreds of people don their finest hats — some silly, some serious — to march in style up Fifth Avenue during the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival. And that’s keeping some of the...
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Trump attends Easter service in Palm Beach
Members of the clergy gather outside The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida, as President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend Easter Sunday service on April 16,...
View ArticleDid Politics Come Up at Your Easter Dinner or Passover Seder?
The Rev. Schuyler Vogel, senior minister of the Fourth Universalist Society on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, updates listeners on the story of Aura Hernandez, an immigrant and mother of two seeking...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics; Easter & Your Seders; The State of Election...
Coming up on today's show: Jamil Smith, senior writer at Rolling Stone, discusses the latest national political news. The Rev. Schuyler Vogel, senior minister of the Fourth Universalist Society on the...
View ArticleEaster in New York With Malcolm Merriweather
⟹ This program airs on WQXR at 9 am on Sunday, April 21, 2019.Celebrate Easter this Sunday morning with conductor and singer Malcolm Merriweather, conductor of the Dessoff Choirs. For this one-hour...
View ArticleWNYC's The Stakes; SCOTUS and LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination; Earth Week: Air...
Coming up on today's show:Kai Wright, editor and host of WNYC’s narrative unit, host of podcasts United States of Anxiety and There Goes the Neighborhood and a columnist for The Nation magazine, talks...
View ArticleChanging Times, Changing Holiday Traditions
New York Times contributing writer Priya Krishna discusses her recent article, "Reinventing Easter, Passover and Other Holiday Meals in a Time of Limits."
View ArticleHow Hospital Chaplains Are Offering Care and Comfort
The Rev. Dr. Beth Glover, an Episcopal priest who serves as corporate director of Pastoral Care and Education (CPE) for the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital system, talks about the role of hospital...
View ArticleSpeak to the Speaker; Together Separately for Easter; National News and...
Coming up on today's show:New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson talks about the latest on the COVID-19 outbreak and the City's response, as well as the proposed budget cuts and how the City...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Easter Sunday Apart; NYC's Food Czar; How Does the...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Easter Sunday Apart (First) | NYC's Food Czar (Starts at 28:04) | How Does the Coronavirus Behave (Starts at 55:40)If you don't...
View ArticleCelebrating Easter in Isolation
Rev. James Martin, SJ, Jesuit priest and editor-at-large for America Magazine, will join us to talk about celebrating Easter this weekend.
View ArticleEaster Food!
Chris Morocco, test kitchen director at Bon Appetit, joins us to discuss all things Easter cooking.
View ArticleVirtual Worship Is Older Than You Think
Spring is peak holy season in the United States: Easter and Passover are underway and Ramadan starts next week. While most faith communities have moved worship online, a small number have refused to...
View ArticleYour Pandemic Holiday Plan
Listeners call in to share how they've spent, or are planning to celebrate and observe, religious holidays coming up, including Passover, Easter, Ramadan and more.
View ArticleAn Easter Reflection
As the week comes to a close, we arrive at the end of Passover and the beginning of one of the most important times on the Christian calendar. Today is Good Friday, so we thought we’d take a few...
View ArticleGood Friday This Year
James Martin, SJ, a Jesuit priest, editor at large of America magazine, consultor to the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication, and author of Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone (HarperOne, 2021),...
View ArticleKrugman on Inflation; Changes to Gifted & Talented; Deforestation in the...
Coming up on today's show: Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics, New York Times columnist, distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the author of (now in...
View ArticleCelebrating by Going Without
As three major religious holidays overlap today, listeners share what it means to them to give up something for Lent, fast for Ramadan, or go without leavened bread during Passover.
View ArticleEaster For The Eastern Orthodox: A Church Divided Over Russia and Ukraine
The geopolitical and cultural drivers behind Russia's invasion of Ukraine have a religious dimension, and the conflict is causing tension within the Eastern Orthodox Church.On Today's Show:With Eastern...
View ArticleAbrahamic Holy Month: Christians Talk About Their Faith
All three major Western religions are in holiday season at once. Today, on the day after Palm Sunday, Christians call in to talk about how simple or complicated their relationship with their religion...
View ArticleAbrahamic Holy Month: Interfaith Dialogue
Sharon Kleinbaum, senior rabbi and spiritual leader of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City, Khalid Latif, Imam, university chaplain for New York University, and executive director of the...
View ArticleAnti-Trans Legislation Spreads; City's Voucher Program in Disarray; Gun Laws...
Coming up on today's show: Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and former staff attorney at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and the LGBTQ...
View ArticleA bumpy road to the 'end' of COVID
Pinpointing the “end” of the COVID-19 pandemic depends on the vantage point. Medical professionals wait for death rates to subside and immunity to build. Social scientists tend to focus on perceived...
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