WOMEX-the Worldwide Music Expo-was forced to go virtual this year instead of its planned live presentation in Budapest. There were advantages and disadvantages with this decision. While the personal connections and ability to see musicians perform live were significantly diminished (though not completely eliminated,) the greatly reduced admission fee and elimination of travel costs allowed […]
SistaStrings: Classical Music & The Black Experience
SistaStrings are sisters Chauntee and Monique Ross, classically trained violin and cello musicians from Milwaukee. In this interview with Helena White, SistaStrings discuss how and why they infuse their classical music with influences from Black culture: Gospel singing, Blues and Jazz improvisation. This interviewed was recorded live during ‘On The Horizon’ on December 1st, 2019. […]
Polka Can’t Die!
Hear a conversation about POLKA! with Don Hedeker of The Polkaholics. “Polka Can’t Die” is the name of an album by Chicago polka band The Polkaholics – a band who is keeping the polka tradition alive by injecting it with good old rock n roll! During ‘On the Horizon’ on Sunday, August 18th 2019, Helena […]
Strings Galore
Strings Galore will be the theme of On the Horizon on Sunday April 23 from 3 to 5pm. Tim Farley will be collaborating with Paul Novak for a show featuring string instruments from international music and from early music: oud, lute, & theorbo; Norwegian hardanger fiddle & viola d’amore; Swedish nyckelharpa & hurdy gurdy. Many […]
To Play the Music-Pt. 2
Changes to WORT since my contribution in 2000 to the 25th Anniversary book: computer files are often the source format for the music; MP3 files will soon replace the minidisc as the source format for announcements; our signal is digital, not analog; HD is here (and a WORT-2 signal is planned); the signal is more […]
