Robert Sherman

Host Bob Sherman remembers Igor Stravinsky.

This week the Leonard Lopate Show interviews Natalia Makarova. Listen to a WQXR interview Bob Sherman did with Makarova in 1977, when she was prima ballerina at American Ballet Theatre.

Keystone Festival

Host Robert Sherman presents a rebroadcast, from January 11, 1989, of a program of conversation and live performances in the WQXR Concert Theater with five pianists participating in the screening auditions at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Guests on the broadcast include the president of the competition Susan Tilley, and the following pianists: Boris Slutsky playing the Piano Sonata No. 2 in F major, K 280 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Eduardus Halim playing a movement from the Piano Sonata No.3, Op.58 by Frédéric Chopin ; Sujin Park performing a movement from the Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven ; Jian Lee performing the Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 by Frédéric Chopin.