Sara Fishko

WNYC's Sara Fishko looks at the controversial show Mirroring Evil at New York’s Jewish Museum. The exhibition features contemporary artwork about the Nazis and the Holocaust. 

WNYC's Sara Fishko spotlights a writer, a film editor, and a graphic designer who admit their ambivalent relationships to technology.

(Originally aired: June 9, 2001)

Orchestrators of musical theater are an imaginative and meticulous bunch, handling what a Broadway composer often does not. They create the mood of the arrangements and the way instruments play under and around and beyond the singers‘ lines.

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This spring, a new crop of musicals will be presented on Broadway, and some old ones will be revived. Toiling behind the scenes, Sara Fishko tells us, are the orchestrators. Here is the next Fishko Files...

Accompanists are unsung collaborators who do a lot more than just prop up the soloists — though that isn’t always apparent to the audience.

(Originally aired: September 1, 2001)

Movies about artists constitute a whole genre. Artists are supposed to be wild, reckless geniuses and passionate lovers. And famous artists each have a moment when they "got discovered" — always good for plots. But Sara Fishko finds all these biopics suffer a similar affliction. 

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Muhammed Ali turned 60 years old yesterday, and a film about his boxing years is now in theatres. Sara Fishko has seen that film, among many others...here's the next Fishko Files...

WNYC's Sara Fishko takes a look at one of the greatest fans of all time, who himself was an object of fan obsession.

(Originally aired: August 4, 2001)

WNYC's Sara Fishko looks at why collectors are attracted to the intimate written thoughts of strangers.

From the Andrew Sisters to the Jackson Five — WNYC's Sara Fishko looks at the singular sound only brothers and sisters can create.

(Originally aired: April 14, 2001)

Classical music aesthetes finally embrace a composer some thought was too popular to be any good.

A healthy combination of luster and notoriety continue to make the bohemian Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan a destination for artists. 

WNYC's Sara Fishko talks to a photographer who for decades has been looking at the joys and sorrows of the human condition.

Accompanists are unsung collaborators who do a lot more than just prop up the soloists — though that isn’t always apparent to the audience.  

WNYC's Sara Fishko explores the seasonal song responsible for more than 100 wildly different ways to say "summer." 

WNYC's Sara Fishko takes a look at one of the greatest fans of all time, who himself was an object of fan obsession. 

WNYC's Sara Fishko spotlights a writer, a film editor, and a graphic designer who admit their ambivalent relationships to technology.

The flamboyant performer and composer left us his remarkable music, and also elevated musicians from servants to stars.

(Originally aired: March 24, 2001)

WNYC's Sara Fishko investigates how the 1957 Broadway hit West Side Story explored dark, topical ideas, while backstage, the social and personal politics of its creators tied the historic musical to its time. 

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