James Bennett II appears in the following:
Hear Me Out: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor (Felix Mendelssohn, 1845)
Friday, April 24, 2020
The Finale, it just keeps feeding you.
Holy Holy Worldly: Sacred Music in a Secular World
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
I'm not excited, but should I be?
IN CONVERSATION – With Deborah Borda
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Deborah Borda, President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic speaks to WQXR's James Bennett about the current crisis and the need to re-invent the future.
Hear Me Out: Music for Passion Week, Op. 13 (Maximilian Steinberg, 1926)
Friday, April 10, 2020
Gettin’ closer to God in a tight situation…
Hear Me Out: Fanm d’Ayiti (Nathalie Joachim, 2019)
Friday, April 03, 2020
This week: James Bennett on compulsive crying, girl choirs, and Haiti's musical legacy.
Hear Me Out: Variations on a Balkan Theme, Op. 60 (Amy Beach, 1906)
Friday, March 27, 2020
On the joys of some possibly inauthentic yet captivating Balkan melodies, occasions when the best part of the song is the whole song and the intolerable nature of bad aux cord Dj-ing.
Hear Me Out: Rêverie and Selected Music for Piano (Teresa Carreño)
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Going to sleep with a mind laden with existential thoughts isn't all bad... right?
Beyond Florence Price: Finding More Diverse Music Composers
Friday, March 06, 2020
Florence Price is the perfect composer to highlight when institutions are looking for more diversity — a black woman.
Hear Me Out: Piano Quintet in B Minor (Dora Pejačević, 1918)
Friday, March 06, 2020
This week: anxiety, despair and flirtations with a hope most coquettish.
Hear Me Out: The Ballad of the Brown King (Margaret Bonds, 1954)
Friday, February 28, 2020
James Bennett muses on a very Black Nativity scene.
Florence Price Is not Your Negro
Thursday, February 27, 2020
The recent rediscovery of Price's work should inspire us to work harder to find new music, not rest because we've got our diversity play.
Hear Me Out: ‘Blues on Bach’ (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1974)
Friday, February 21, 2020
This week: James Bennett on what makes a "good" album. And also harpsichords.
Hear Me Out: All the Things You Can C♯ (Charles Mingus, 1955)
Friday, February 14, 2020
This week: The blustery cool of Mingus’s 'All the Things You Can C♯', and why winter is the best season.
Hear Me Out: Fantasie nègre No. 1 (Florence Price, 1929)
Friday, February 07, 2020
This week: James Bennett on Florence Price’s Fantasie Nègre, mac and cheese, and sharing your musical discoveries.
The Only Way to Avoid Tokenism in Black History Month is to Engage with Black Art Outside of It
Thursday, February 06, 2020
Black History Month — or any other commemorative month — should be a time to experiment with new programming that can become a fixture all year long.
Go Full Choral and Make Your Christmas Playlist Better
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Advent hymns are Good, and it's weird we don't listen to more of them.
Why Is Christmas Music So Damn Corny? A Very Unscientific Theory
Wednesday, December 04, 2019
Listen, it's called an "opinion" for a reason.
Introducing WQXR Beta
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
WQXR is testing a new streaming platform in response to the changing terrain of digital music listening experiences.
Turtle Bay Music School is Closing its Doors
Monday, November 25, 2019
The 94-year old nonprofit institution will close in January of next year.
