Creativity After 9/11
ListenWe talk with musicians, artists and arts administrators about the challenge of creating art in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Guests include Daniel Felsenfeld, one of the composers...
View ArticleSteve Reich's "WTC 9/11"
ListenWhen Steve Reich visited us back in April, he spoke about the deeply personal story behind his latest work, WTC 9/11. Today, we revisit that interview – and explore the controversy that erupted...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen's 'The Rising'
ListenBruce Springsteen released his album "The Rising" less than a year after the September 11 attacks. We look back at that powerful - and hopeful - album with New York Times film critic A.O. Scott....
View Article'Measuring Time' Preview
ListenThis summer, WNYC and WQXR began asking listeners and guests, “What music would you like to hear as you think about the events of 10 years ago?” The result was a diverse and thought-provoking...
View Article'Measuring Time' Picks: Bragg, Turturro, Botstein and Farris
ListenSome recent Soundcheck guests gave us their picks for WNYC's Measuring Time: Music for 9/11 project. We asked them: "What would you want to hear on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001?"Billy...
View ArticleI'll Heal In Time
ListenToday is the first of the Radio Rookies series Our 9/11: Growing Up In the Aftermath. Jillian Suarez’s story is one she says she doesn't want to tell with tears. Jillian’s father, a New York...
View ArticleDecade 9/11 Conversation: Radio Rookies and Clifford Chanin
ListenPart four of our Decade 9/11 series of conversations: WNYC Radio Rookies Brendan Illis and Norhan Basuni and 9/11 Memorial Museum director Clifford Chanin talk about the collaboration between the...
View ArticleThe Emotional Consequences of 9/11
ListenYuval Neria, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Trauma and PTSD Program, Department of Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University’s College of...
View ArticleDaniel Libeskind on the World Trade Center Redevelopment
ListenArchitect Daniel Libeskind discusses the master plan for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center Site and his role in it. He’ll also discuss the international architecture practice he’s...
View ArticleThe Sounds of the World Trade Center
ListenStephen Vitiello is a composer and sound artist. In 1999, he worked in a studio on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. For six months he recorded the noises of the building and its...
View ArticlePhilippe Petit, Man On Wire
ListenIt had all the glamour, conspiracy, and danger of a classic heist movie, but it was real — and the hero was wearing slippers.Long before 9/11, Philippe Petit’s unauthorized walk on a tightrope...
View ArticleDecade 9/11 Conversation: Tariq Ali and Chris Dickey
ListenPart five of our Decade 9/11 series of conversations: Writer, filmmaker, and an editor of New Left Review, Tariq Ali, and Paris bureau chief and Middle East regional editor at Newsweek and the...
View ArticleGeneration 9/11: How This Generation is Different From All Others
ListenWe’re kicking off a new series today called "Generation 9/11." All week long, in honor of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, we’ll be talking with and about young people who were coming of age during...
View ArticleDecade 9/11: NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly
ListenRay Kelly, NYPD Commissioner, talks about his own reflections on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and discusses the challenges for first responders on that day.Decade 9/11Explore all of the...
View ArticleComedy Since 9/11: Comics Reflect On What It Took To Get New York Laughing...
ListenThe dozen comedians interviewed for this story said similar things about the weeks and months following the attacks on 9/11. None of them wondered whether comedy would come back, or remotely...
View ArticleRemembering 9/11: Songs Picked By Our Listeners
ListenToday we're starting a week-long series in remembrance of 9/11, ten years later. Our co-producer, WNYC, asked listeners what music they would like to hear, as they think about the events of ten...
View ArticleGeneration 9/11: Why I Enlisted
ListenAll week long, in honor of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, we’re talking with and about young people came of age at the time of the September 11 attacks. Today we’re looking at how 9/11 factored...
View Article'Top Secret America': The Hidden Side of Government After 9/11
ListenWe're talking about the tenth anniversary of 9/11 all this week. And while we’re remembering those we’ve lost, we’re also analyzing the tragedy's aftermath. A new Frontline documentary and...
View ArticleArchitecture, Public Planning, and Security
ListenSusan Silberberg, Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning at MIT and planning consultant, and Robert Rogers, Principal at Rogers Marvel Architects, PLLC, discuss the physical changes to our public...
View ArticleUnmeasured Strength
ListenLauren Manning, former managing director and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, tells the story of her near death experience on 9/11 and her subsequent ten-year journey of survival and rebirth. In...
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