92nd Street Y Podcasts http://blog.92y.org/index.php/category/Podcasts Podcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor. en Copyright 2009 2009-07-09T20:30:08-05:00 Highlights from the 92nd Street Y universe. Highlights from the 92nd Street Y universe. ©2008 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association92Y,92nd,Street,Y,92nd,St,Y,YMHAArtsNews & PoliticsReligion & Spirituality/JudaismSociety & CultureEducation92nd Street Yno92Y,92nd,Street,Y,92nd,St,Y,YMHA 92Y Podcast: Pianist Bill Charlap, Artistic Director of Jazz in July Summer Festival http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/92YPodcasts/~3/oYRga-xJT3Q/ Pianist Bill Charlap, Artistic Director of the 92nd Street Y Jazz in July Summer Festival. The Arts, Podcasts, All topics of 92nd Y

Pianist Bill Charlap, Artistic Director of 92nd Street Y's Jazz in July Summer Festival, recently sat down with us for a phone conversation. In the first half of the podcast above, Bill tackles the first week of Jazz in July, followed by a discussion of the second week. He spoke about his vision for the festival, the significance of New York Jazz, the role Vince Guaraldi (composer of the Charlie Brown songs) played in quietly introducing America to his own music without notice, why this series is unique in the season and more. At one point, Charlap declared the acoustics at our concert hall as the best of any he has played.

The music you hear during brief moments in the podcast is from Bill's album, Stardust. Yesterday, we gave a few copies of that album away, but you can still win your free copy by visiting our Facebook page and leaving a comment on our wall. We've got one more CD to give!

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Alice McDermott “is a genius of quiet observation,” said the Los Angeles Times. “One of our finest novelists.” McDermott’s books include Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award, and After This. In January 2008, she appeared at 92Y for our Afternoon Night Table Series hosted by award-winning journalist, essayist and television commentator Roger Rosenblatt. You can listen to the full program above, where they talk about the art of fiction, both writing and teaching it.

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Save Now and Become a Subscriber of 92Y's Unterberg Poetry Center: The 2009-2010 season will feature appearances by some of today’s finest authors, among them Adrienne Rich, Annie Proulx, A.S. Byatt, Chinua Achebe, Orhan Pamuk, John Irving, Paul Auster, Rita Dove, Charles Simic, Louise Glück, Philip Levine, Natasha Trethewey, Javier Marías, Peter Esterházy, John Banville, Sam Shepard and Suzan-Lori Parks. Special events include A Celebration of Vladimir Nabokov with Martin Amis; An Evening of Beckett; The Tenth Muse with John Ashbery and much more.

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]]> 2009-06-26T22:23:05-05:00 92nd Street YnoPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92nd Street YPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92Y,92nd,Street,Y,92nd,St,Y,YMHAhttp://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/92y_podcast_alice_mcdermott_and_roger_rosenblatt/http://multimedia.92y.org//Podcasts/92Y_%20Alice%20McDermott.mp3 92Y Podcast: An Evening with Gene Wilder http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/92YPodcasts/~3/IsHt3C0OpmQ/ Gene Wilder in conversation with Letty Cottin Pogrebin at the 92nd Street Y on March 25, 2007. The Arts, Podcasts, All topics of 92nd Y

In March 2007, Ms. magazine founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin interviewed comic legend Gene Wilder, whose debut novel My French Whore was released that month, at the 92nd Street Y for our Funny People series. Read a recap of the evening here, and even better, listen to the full program above. Highlights include the interesting story that he agreed to play the part of Willy Wonka only on the condition that he get to introduce the character in a certain way: appearing before the townspeople for the first time, Wonka hobbles out with a cane, pretends to stumble, and goes into an acrobatic forward somersault. He explained that the change was critical in setting up the character, because “from that point on, you don’t know whether I’m lying or telling the truth.”

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Upcoming Funny People Talks:

  • Danny Hoch: Jun 4
  • Kate Clinton with Randy Cohen: Jun 11

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    ]]> 2009-05-29T17:01:06-05:00 92nd Street YnoPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92nd Street YPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92Y,92nd,Street,Y,92nd,St,Y,YMHAhttp://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/92y_podcast_an_evening_with_gene_wilder/http://multimedia.92y.org//Podcasts/92Y_%20Gene%20Wilder.mp3 92Y Podcast: Jack and Suzy Welch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/92YPodcasts/~3/i9fUEv6DTws/ Jack and Suzy Welch with Businessweek’s Stephen Adler at the 92nd Street Y on January 18, 2007. Humanities, Podcasts, All topics of 92nd Y Business legend Jack Welch, the former chairman and CEO of General Electric, returns to the Y on June 18 with his wife Suzy to discuss "Decision Making the Welch Way." (On a related note, you will not want to miss "Dollars and Sense: What's Next for the Financial Sector and Economy?" with Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, John Paulson and Matthew Bishop on June 1.) The Welches are the coauthors of the bestseller, Winning: The Answers, and a syndicated column, The Welch Way. They last appeared here together in January 2007 with Businessweek editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler. You can listen to the program below.

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    More Upcoming Talks:

  • Bill Scheft in Conversation with Susie Essman: May 20
  • David Gregory in Conversation with Jeff Greenfield: May 26
  • Ace Every Interview: Getting the Job You Really Want with Barry Cohen: Jun 9
  • Fear and Loathing on Wall Street—Investment Strategies for a Post Bear Stearns World with Jason Trennert: Jun 9

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    ]]> 2009-05-19T21:54:32-05:00 92nd Street YnoPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92nd Street YPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92Y,92nd,Street,Y,92nd,St,Y,YMHAhttp://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/92y_podcast_jack_and_suzy_welch/http://multimedia.92y.org//Podcasts/92Y_%20Jack%20and%20Suzy%20Welch.mp3 92Y Podcast: Dr. Oliver Sacks, Music and the Mind http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/92YPodcasts/~3/jNinqkWdXIM/ Dr. Oliver Sacks and Robert Krulwich discuss “Music and the Mind” at the 92nd Street Y on April 24, 2007. Humanities, Podcasts, All topics of 92nd Y image

    In April 2007, British neurologist and bestselling author Dr. Oliver Sacks sat down with Radiolab's Robert Krulwich at the 92nd Street Y to discuss music and the mind, the subject of his then forthcoming book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (published in October 2007). Ever wondered about melodic intonation therapy? Listen and learn.

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    Upcoming Science Events:

  • Geology Field Trip: May 17
  • Battlestar Galactica: Cyborgs On The Horizon with Dr. Nick Bostrom, actor Michael Hogan and other cast members: Jun 12
  • Yours to Decide: Fate, Free Will, Neither or Both? with Paul Nurse, Daniel Wegner, Patrick Haggard and Alfred Mele: Jun 13
  • Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation with Daniel Goleman: Jun 22

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    ]]> 2009-05-14T23:11:12-05:00 92nd Street YnoPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92nd Street YPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92Y,92nd,Street,Y,92nd,St,Y,YMHAhttp://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/92y_podcast_dr_oliver_sacks_music_and_the_mind/http://multimedia.92y.org//Podcasts/92Y_%20Oliver%20Sacks.mp3 92Y Podcast: The Borowitz Report: Obama’s First 100 Days http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/92YPodcasts/~3/BM16ycrBSzQ/ Award-winning comedian and satirist Andy Borowitz, and a stellar panel including Hendrick Hertzberg of The New Yorker, journalist Jonathan Alter and comedian Judy Gold take an irreverent look at President Obama’s first 100 days in office. Recorded at the 92nd Street Y on April 30, 2009. Humanities, Podcasts, All topics of 92nd Y

    Last night at the Y, award-winning comedian and satirist Andy Borowitz (Borowitz Report), and a stellar panel including Hendrick Hertzberg of The New Yorker, journalist Jonathan Alter of Newsweek and comedian Judy Gold took an irreverent look at President Obama's first 100 days in office. Andy starts the evening off with a hilarious monologue and in case you think the Y crowd doesn't appreciate "blue" (several meanings implied here) humor, Andy is pretty liberal with the f-bombs. Just a warning. You can listen to the whole program below.

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    Upcoming Talks:

  • Bill O'Reilly with Jeff Greenfield: May 3
  • Janis Ian with Anthony DeCurtis: May 4
  • Daniel Goleman with Gary Hirshberg: Understanding the Green Revolution: May 6
  • Christopher Buckley with Tina Brown: May 7
  • Jane Mayer with Frank Rich: May 19
  • David Brooks with Jon Meacham: Jun 9

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    Galway Kinnell, one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century, has had a career full of accolades. About his work, Liz Rosenberg wrote in the Boston Globe: "Kinnell is a poet of the rarest ability, the kind who comes once or twice in a generation, who can flesh out music, raise the spirits and break the heart." His relationship to the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center is very special and he has appeared here over 30 times. This podcast is from his 3rd on November 29, 1965. He reads First Song, The River That is East, Middle of the Way and other poems.

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    Related: Readings in March at the Y include Charles Simic, Rae Armantrout and Cole Swensen, An Evening of Shakespeare: Hamlet, Gogol at 200, Daniel Mendelsohn on Cavafy, Blake Bailey on John Cheever and Ann Beattie.

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    Audio: John Updike at the 92nd Street Y on November 7, 2005

    The New York Times on the passing of John Updike:

    John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to place him in the first rank of among American men of letters, died on Tuesday. He was 76 and lived in Beverly Farms, Mass.

    The cause was cancer, according to a statement by Alfred A. Knopf, his publisher. A spokesman said Mr. Updike died at a hospice outside Boston.

    Of Mr. Updike’s 61 books, perhaps none captured the imagination of the book-reading public as those about ordinary citizens in small-town and urban settings. His best-known protagonist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom, first appears as a former high-school basketball star trapped in a loveless marriage and a sales job he hates. Through the four novels whose titles bear his nickname — “Rabbit, Run,” “Rabbit Redux,” “Rabbit Is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest” — the author traces the sad life of this undistinguished middle-American against the background of the last half-century’s major events.

    “My subject is the American Protestant small town middle class,” Mr. Updike told Jane Howard in a 1966 interview for Life magazine. “I like middles,” he continued. “It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.”
    Updike made four appearances at the Y's Poetry Center between 1967 and 2005. Listen to the Q&A portion of his last where he talks about poetry influences, his transition from would-be cartoonist to writer, finishing what he starts and art criticism.

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    ]]> 2009-01-28T00:05:47-05:00 92nd Street YnoPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92nd Street YPodcasts from the 92nd Street Y and Makor.92Y,92nd,Street,Y,92nd,St,Y,YMHAhttp://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/92y_podcast_remembering_john_updike/http://multimedia.92y.org//Podcasts/92Y_John_Updike.mp3 92Y Podcast: Remembering W.D. Snodgrass, Poet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/92YPodcasts/~3/Dbe2Etupi2Y/ Poet W.D. Snodgrass made six appearances at the 92nd Street Y’s Poetry Center between 1959 and 1997. This is the full program, with an introduction by John Simon, of his reading from March 28, 1963. The Arts, Podcasts

    Audio: W.D. Snodgrass at the 92nd Street Y on March 28, 1963

    The New York Times on the passing of W. D. Snodgrass:

    W. D. Snodgrass, who found the stuff of poetry in the raw material of his emotional life and from it helped forge a bold, self-analytical poetic style in postwar America, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his debut book, died on Tuesday at his home in Erieville, N.Y., in rural Madison County. He was 83.

    The cause was lung cancer, his wife, Kathleen Snodgrass, said.

    “Your name’s absurd,” Mr. Snodgrass wrote in an early poem, “These Trees Stand...,” as if at once to silence the snickering and skewer himself. But only a few lines later he sang out his name, declaring, “Snodgrass is walking through the universe,” as if to announce the sort of poetic journey of the self he had undertaken.

    It found immediate expression in “Heart’s Needle,” a collection he published at the age of 33 in 1959. The book, which won the Pulitzer Prize the following year, startled American poetry circles and prompted a letter of praise from Robert Lowell.

    Lowell, who had taught Mr. Snodgrass in a poetry workshop at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa), had at first admonished his student about his early poems. “He said, ‘You’ve got a brain; you can’t write this kind of tear-jerking stuff,’ ” Mr. Snodgrass recalled in an interview with The New York Times at his home in October.

    “But I came to a point where I had to rebel against my teachers, including Lowell,” he said. “I wanted to use a much more simple and direct kind of language, something that would be common without feeling worn out or used.”

    Lowell changed his mind, persuaded Knopf to publish “Heart’s Needle” and called it a “breakthrough for modern poetry.”
    Snodgrass made six appearances at the Y's Poetry Center between 1959 and 1997. Listen above to the full program, with an introduction by critic John Simon, of his reading from March 28, 1963.

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    On March 11, 2008, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager—described in Jewish Week as “one of the three most interesting minds in American Jewish life”—made a presentation at the Y to offer compelling arguments in favor of Judaism, developed over many years of speaking to people from virtually every religion and culture. Prager, a popular radio talk show host since 1982, is the author of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism, Why the Jews?, The Reason for Antisemitism and Happiness Is a Serious Problem. In the clip above he discusses the Jewish relationship to Christianity, the self-criticism of Judaism and how the Torah makes the case for "good people" - no matter their religion.

    The full program will be broadcast on the weekly From New York’s 92nd Street Y program in a new time slot this Sunday at 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, 7pm, 9pm, 11pm and Monday at 3am EST on the SIRIUS XM STARS Channel. If you're not a subscriber, go to www.sirius.com/freetrial for a 3 day free trial.

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    Related: The New Administration and the Mideast: What Will Happen in 2009? with David Makovsky (Jan 11) and State of World Jewry Lecture: Martin Indyk in Conversation with David Remnick (Jan 15)

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