WFMT: Andrew Patner on Arts and Culture

WFMT: Andrew Patner on Arts and Culture


Latest Episodes

Cristian Macelaru (Rebroadcast)
July 11, 2016

In a program from February, 2014, Andrew Patner talks with young Romanian-born American conductor Cristian Macelaru.  

American Music (rebroadcast)
July 04, 2016

In a program from July of 2011, Andrew Patner presents a program of music by American composers and performers — local performers and a number of local composers  — featuring recordings from the Chicago Clarinet Trio (including composers Max Raimi and ...

Grant Park Music Festival (rebroadcast)
June 27, 2016

In a program from May of 2011, Andrew Patner’s guests are Grant Park Music Festival principal conductor and artistic director Carlos Kalmar, and Festival general manager Leigh Levine.

Nico Muhly (rebroadcast)
June 20, 2016

In a program from August of 2008, Andrew Patner is joined by composer/arranger/conductor/ musician Nico Muhly for conversation with music, in an interview recorded in an eerie, concrete room in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center.

Riccardo Muti, Oct. 2009 (rebroadcast)
June 13, 2016

In a program from October of 2009, Andrew Patner talks with then-Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director designate Riccardo Muti. Maestro Muti discussed his views on Bruckner, Verdi, and Brahms as he prepared for four performances of Brahms’s German ...

Donald Nally, conductor (rebroadcast)
June 06, 2016

In a program from 2009, Andrew Patner is joined by then-chorus master of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Donald Nally, discussing and playing recordings of Nally’s Philadelphia-based contemporary choral group, The Crossing.

David Robertson, conductor (rebroadcast)
May 30, 2016

In a program from July of 2012, Andrew Patner speaks with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra music director and Sydney Symphony Orchestra chief conductor, David Robertson.

Emanuel Ax, pianist (rebroadcast)
May 23, 2016

In a program from May of 2012, Andrew Patner talks with renowned pianist Emanuel Ax about his curation of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Keys to the City Piano Festival.

Walter Massey – Part 2 of 2 (rebroadcast)
May 16, 2016

In the conclusion of a two-part conversation with music from May of 2014, Andrew talks with physicist and educator Walter E. Massey, president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Walter Massey has led many and varied major institutions,

Walter Massey – Part 1 of 2 (rebroadcast)
May 09, 2016

In the first of a two-part conversation with music from May of 2014, Andrew talks with physicist and educator Walter E. Massey, president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Walter Massey has led many and varied major institutions,

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