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On tonight’s program, host Emi Ferguson features performances from the Caramoor Center for the Arts’s Evnin Rising Stars. The 2025 Evnin Rising Stars residents are violinists Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, Clara Neubauer, and Cherry Choi Tung Yeung, violists Samuel Rosenthal and Luther Warren, cellists Annie Jacobs-Perkins and Leland Ko, and pianist Evren Ozel. You’ll hear some of...


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March 3, 2026- Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposal slashes state support for programs and resources designed to help New Yorkers with disabilities remain independent. We discuss the proposed budget cuts and accessible transportation with Tyler Whitney, president and CEO of Southern Adirondack Independent Living, and Lindsay Miller, executive director for New York Association on ...

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March 3, 2026- The state's volunteer firefighter numbers are about two-thirds of what they were two decades ago, so we talked with Firefighters Association of the State of New York Secretary John D’Alessandro about ideas to boost those numbers.

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In November 1960, poet Langston Hughes wrote composer Margaret Bonds celebrating the positive critical response for their collaboration, The Ballad of the Brown King. His enthusiasm leaps off the page, and ...


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For Women’s History Month, we’re sharing the stories of several women who broke barriers, eviscerated expectations and shattered ceilings in the classical world — giving some much-needed context to understanding just how monumental their professional moves were.

Iti and Hekenu: First Woman Musicians On Record Ancient Egyptian Composers Iti and Hekenu (Public Domain) <...

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