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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1925: The New York Women's Symphony performs from the Central Park Mall.
1952: Dedication of the Inwood Branch of the NYPL, the first new city library in 14 years.
1982: Richard Kostelanetz discusses his audiotape experiment, "Invocations" on The Reader's Almanac with Walter James Miller. The work attempts to "discover the sound of prayer that transcends individual languages." We hear excerpts, including a recording of a Sufi reading from the Quran layered with other recordings of prayers in other languages. Another excerpt with twelve simultaneous elements opens with a Zen chorus.
1989: John Schaefer presents The S.E.M. Ensemble performing John Cage's "Ryoanji" and Estonian Composer Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa Pt 1" on New Sounds.
2003: The Next Big Thing spends an entire episode on the subway. Reading, stripping, love, romance and more all before the end of the line.
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WNYC WPA Mural For the 'Music Room'
Artist Louis Ferstadt painting Radio Service to the Public on January 25, 1939 . The mural was not among the four Federal Art Project murals (and one sculpture) dedicated at the station on August 2, 1939. It was completed in 1941 but never hung. We don't know why nor what happened to it. NYPR staffers know this painting since a large photo of it welcomes all who get off the 9th floor elevator at our offices. (Photo: By S. Horn/WPA Federal Art Project/Smithsonian Archives of American Art) |
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
The Queen's Radio Debut
"Queen Marie of Rumania, her face glowing with pleasure over the enthusiasm which had greeted her arrival in this country, expressed her thanks yesterday at noon in her first radio speech made over WNYC from the Aldermanic Chamber of the City Hall, where she was officially received by Mayor Walker. The great room was hung with American and Rumanian flags. The band played the American and the Rumanian national anthems. The royal visitor was seated on the throne of carved wood and plush which had been occupied before by a king, two crown princes, by cardinals, famous statesmen and great athletes, but never before by a queen…"
Source: "City Hall Welcome Moves Queen Marie." The New York Times. October 19, 1926, pg. 1
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