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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1953: New Zealand conductor Warwick Braithwaite talks about his work on this edition of Speaking of Music.
1989: New Sounds with John Schaefer features music from the Canadian percussion group Nexus. There are also some mbira-based works from Dumisani Maraire and his Zimbabwean group, along with music from David Byrne & Brian Eno.
1997: WNYC officially marks its independence from the City of New York with the first of six payments of $3.3 million for our broadcast licenses. Speaking at the event are WNYC CEO Laura Walker, Scott Simon, Sarah Jessica Parker, WNYC Board Chair Peter H. Darrow and Mayor Giuliani.
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January 27, 1997
20 Years of Independence!
Mayor Giuliani hands WNYC CEO Laura Walker a copy (enlarged) of the official FCC Broadcast License, signifying the station's transfer to the WNYC Foundation. (WNYC Archive Collections)
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Artists Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko discuss "The Portrait and the Modern Artist" on Art in New York with Hugh Stix
The abstract expressionist painters respond to a letter writer who asks: "The portrait has always been linked in my mind with a picture of a person. I was therefore surprised to see your paintings of mythological characters, with their abstract rendition, in a portrait show, and would therefore be very much interested in your answers to the following—
1. Why do you consider these pictures to be portraits?
2. Why do you as modern artists use mythological characters?
3. Are not these pictures really abstract paintings with literary titles?
4. Are you not denying modern art when you put so much emphasis on subject matter?"
Editor's Note: Unfortunately, we have yet to find the audio of this program, although we get at least one request every month for it. If you are interested, however, a transcript of the conversation can be found at: ROTHKO & GOTTLIEB
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