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WNYC's Fishko Files looks at composer Virgil Thomson & writer Gertrude Stein's artistic partnership, including their hit 1934 opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Learn why "it caught the ear and the imagination" at wnyc.org. And hear the 1981 Nonesuch recording here.

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Fishko Files · Ned Rorem

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Newsflash: It is very hot in NYC today. Care to cool off with some Gershwin? 

With temperatures in New York soaring to 90 degrees today, we figure it is a good time for a re-hearing of a favorite Fishko Files - “Summertime.” WNYC’s Sara Fishko explores the masterful Gershwin tune, and the many ways its interpreters say “summer.”

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Liberace was my babysitter. I have a foggy memory of my mother sitting my sister and me in front of the television so we could watch his program while she did housework. At least I think it's a valid memory and not a nightmare.

-From a commenter on the new Fishko Files, "Liberace's Very Extreme Makeover" 

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Fishko Files · Rostropovich

Fishko Files · Rostropovich (1927-2007) · The Man on Top of the Cello · wnyc.org

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“Do you know I’m beginning to think you are a very ordinary fellow. You are vain, dishonest, morally lax, you are proud, you are lazy and self-indulgent. Aren’t you really sinking deeper every week into the feather bed of a successful career? Read this again in a week. In another week, again.”

-Playwright Clifford Odets, from a February 1940 journal entry. Odets already had a Broadway hit (Awake and Sing!), a Hollywood screen credit (The General Died at Dawn) and his face on the cover of Time Magazine when he wrote this entry.

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THE JAZZ LOFT ANTHOLOGY

From 1957 to 1965, the master photographer W. Eugene Smith had a studio and darkroom in a dilapidated building on 6th Avenue north of 28th street in Manhattan.  The Jazz Loft, as it became known, had already become a favored spot for jam sessions by hundreds of jazz players of the day.  During his years there, Smith became obsessed with the goings-on in the building, musical and otherwise, and he taped and photographed them with an unimaginable thoroughness, capturing thousands of hours of sound as well as tens of thousands of images.  The sounds and stories that emerged from those years are the basis for The Jazz Loft Anthology, a ten-part radio series now heard across four one-hour programs.

Hear the whole story of the Jazz Loft years in The Jazz Loft Anthology.

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"Blue jeans! Sure, the French admire Americans' blue jeans - that's easy to do and still patronize us. But not fashion with a capital F."

- Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

WNYC's Sara Fishko looks at the First New York Fashion week, which eventually helped American fashions hit a global stage.

#NYFW was created by Eleanor Lambert, a savvy publicist with a passion for - ahem - fashion, during the Second World War. Listen to the full story, below.