WFMT: Critical Thinking and Critic's Choice

Andrew recommends the film Selma, the chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights via a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama [...]

In a new conversation, Andrew speaks with Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti [...]

Andrew talks with poet, translator, and critic Peter Cole about his new book, The Invention of Influence, inspired by the life of Victor Tausk, a maverick and tragic early disciple of Sigmund Freud. &nbsp [...]

In the second of a two-part Critic's Choice, Andrew reviews some of 2014's Chicago classical music highlights [...]

Poet and translator Peter Cole on Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain. Cole translated, edited and introduced The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492 (Princeton University Press) [...]

In the first of a two-part Critic's Choice, Andrew reviews some of 2014's Chicago classical music highlights [...]

Andrew presents a program of music for the new year [...]

Andrew reads some poetry for the season [...]

Chicago author Lee Sandlin died unexpectedly this weekend. In his memory, Andrew rebroadcasts a 2013 conversation with Lee Sandlin about his books Storm Kings: The Untold History of America’s Tornado Chasers and Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild [...]

Andrew reviews the Auditorium Theater's 125th Anniversary Gala [...]

Andrew shares a new program of conversation with Thomas Dyja, author of the acclaimed book on mid-20th-century Chicago, The Third Coast, now available in paperback [...]

Andrew talks about Tuesday's press gathering with the design and creative teams of Lyric Opera of Chicago's forthcoming Ring Cycle [...]

Andrew presents the second hour of a new, two-part conversation with University of Chicago historian Neil Harris on his recent book, "Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience." [...]

Andrew presents the first hour of a new  two-part conversation with University of Chicago historian Neil Harris on his recent book, "Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience." [...]

Andrew shares memories of Mike Nichols, who died Wednesday at [...]

Andrew talks about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's commemorations of Helen Regenstein Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez's upcoming 90th birthday.  Happy almost birthday, Maestro! [...]

Andrew shares an exclusive interview from 2009 with the legendary Pierre Boulez, Helen Regenstein conductor emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, discussing a wide range of modern and contemporary music.  This Wednesday through Sunday the CSO presents subscription concerts and Beyond the Score programs saluting Boulez's upcoming 90th birthday [...]

Andrew discusses intimacy in performance in this week's Critic's Choice [...]

Andrew reflects on various anniversaries of Lyric Opera of Chicago as it turns [...]

In this encore presentation from 2011, Andrew celebrates WFMT's 60th Anniversary with music and reflections of years-past [...]