A show in two acts, Act I featuring the timeless music of Kurt Weill from his days writing with Bertolt Brecht in Germany and progressing through his Broadway and Hollywood songbooks …Happy in the Act II to finally get to the work of Jerome Kern, who wrote some of Broadway’s and Hollywood’s most enduring melodies …
The theme of this show, specifically, is the career of the songwriting team of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, with an emphasis on Hart and Richard Linklater’s 2025 biopic about the night Hart experienced the beginning of the end of …
Everything, everywhere, all at once in this show as the Ides of March rolls around with Oscar Night, St, Patrick’s Day just two days away, and some long and beautiful careers in popular entertainment to observe and appreciate …
(This program was broadcast Sunday, March 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org) Note: The idea with this program was to focus on a kind of fiction within the fiction that sometimes …
(This piece originally appeared on the Mischief Time Blog: https://wcresser.com/2025/11/18/meta-hits-of-1967-spotlight-on-the-year-pop-music-celebrated-itself-in-song/ on 11.18/2025). By Wayne Cresser | WRIU | February 19, 2026 In the frothy days of hit parades and top forty stations that could in the space of thirty minutes …
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(This program was broadcast Sunday, February 15th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org) First hour of Picture This begins at 01:02:20 (below) Second hour (below) Author’s Note: The first known hint …
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By Mike Stevenson | WRIU.org | February 15, 2026 “Punxsutawney Phil” saw his shadow on February 2nd (aka Groundhog Day) marking the prediction of six more weeks of winter. The famous prognosticator emerged from his den at 7:25 a.m. into …
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(This program was broadcast Sunday, February 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org) Author’s note by Wayne Cresser Before snowstorm related parking bans canceled live-in-the studio opps for a couple of weeks …
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This Sunday, I encourage listeners to think of my show as a possible soundtrack for Superbowl LX. It’s worth a shot maybe. Anyway, about Picture This 118: Out of the ether wherein John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Lewis Carroll and Bob …
LISTEN TO A REPLAY (BELOW) By Wayne Cresser | WRIU | Dec 28, 2025 Wrapping up 2025 with music from some of the year’s best scores, a deep dive into the Great American Songbook with Gus Khan, and …
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