Highlights Archive

PBS Books & 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival Author Talk with Renée Fleming • Facebook Live Event

PBS Books & 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival Author Talk with Renée Fleming streams Wednesday, August 21 at 8 p.m. LIVE on WXXI Facebook page

PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by world-renowned Soprano and arts/health advocate, Renée Fleming, who grew up in Rochester and is an Eastman School of Music alumni, to discuss her latest book “Music and Mind” as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books.

Flemming’s book delves into the compelling and growing body of research that has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, including providing pain relief, alleviating anxiety and depression, regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury, and improving mobility for people with disorders that include Parkinson’s disease and MS. “Music and Mind” is a groundbreaking book, the perfect introduction and overview of this exciting new field.

Watch the compelling discussion live-streamed on WXXI’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WXXIrochester

Celebrate 50 Years of 91.5 FM with “Sunday Baroque’s” Suzanne Bona • Asbury Church

This free concert will be held at Asbury Church on Sunday, September 29 at 2 p.m.

As part of WXXI Classical 91.5’s year-long 50^th Anniversary celebration, Suzanne Bona, host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, will perform a free concert featuring works by J.S. Bach, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, John Rutter and the ever-popular Claude Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, with musicians from the Eastman School of Music.

Suzanne is a classically trained flutist who earned her Bachelor of Music degree from The University of Connecticut. She performs frequently as a soloist and chamber musician and especially enjoys collaborating with public radio colleagues in performances for listeners across the country.

Asbury Church is located at 1050 East Avenue in Rochester.

You can hear Sunday Baroque Sundays at 10 a.m. on WXXI Classical.

Episodes of your favorite PBS KIDS shows in ASL

Watch your favorite PBS KIDS series with an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter on-screen. PBS KIDS is integrating ASL interpretations into multiple series, which are now available for free on PBS KIDS digital streaming platforms.

Watch PBS KIDS ASL Episodes

“Name Me Lawand” Advance Screening and Panel Discussion • The Little Theatre

Join WXXI and Move to Include^TM for a special FREE advance screening and discussion of Name Me Lawand, a film that follows a deaf Kurdish boy’s transformative journey to communicate through learning sign language.

Monday, August 19, 2024 | 6:30pm
Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Reserve your FREE tickets online.

About the Film: Lawand, deaf from birth, seeks a fresh start with his family in the UK after a traumatic year in a refugee camp. At Derby’s Royal School for the Deaf, he learns sign language and discovers a way to communicate with the world. As he thrives, his family faces deportation, challenging their stability. Name Me Lawand is a love letter to the power of friendship and community.

ASL interpretation will be provided for opening remarks and post-screening panel discussion. This film is presented with open captions.

For more information on parking and accessibility, please visit https://thelittle.org/accessibility/. Additional accommodations may be requested during the registration process.

Please contact Sarah Murphy Abbamonte, Project Manager for Move to Include^TM , at sabbamonte@wxxi.org with any questions.

Little Staff Pick: “Network” Screening • The Little Theatre

Join WXXI at the Little Theatre for a special Staff Pick by outgoing WXXI/Little CEO, Norm Silverstein. The screening features Network.

Monday, August 5, 2024 | 7:00pm
Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Tickets & Info Here

ABOUT THE FILM

Television will never be the same.

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

Rated R| 2 hr 1 min | Drama | 1976
USA | English

Written and Directed by Sidney Lumet

Original Move to Include Content from WXXI

This collection of WXXI’s original content is produced for the Move to Include^TM initiative. Move to Include^TM is an award-winning national initiative that uses the power of public media to promote inclusion. The content in this collection spotlights the lived experiences of people with disabilities and important disability issues, including education, healthcare, housing, employment, and more – through television, radio, news, community events, and digital media.

You can access it through the PBS App or WXXI Move to Include Collection website at PBS

Frontline: Biden’s Decision • WXXI-TV

Frontline: Biden’s Decision provides the inside story behind President Joe Biden’s shocking decision to drop out of the 2024 Presidential Election.

Frontline: Biden’s Decision airs Tuesday, August 6 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV

Behind President Joe Biden’s fateful decision are decades of challenges, controversies, triumphs, and tragedies within his long-run political career. FRONTLINE tells the inside story of Biden’s rise to the presidency, and the personal and political forces that shaped him and led to his dramatic decision to step aside.

Great Performances: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2024 • WXXI-TV

A long-standing annual event, Great Performances presents the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s summer night concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens

Great Performances: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2024 airs Tuesday, August 23 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

Focusing on popular works from the 19th and 20th centuries that highlight Europe’s rich musical heritage, the concert celebrates the bicentennial of distinguished Czech composer Bedřich Smetana with three musical compositions.

The orchestra is led for the second time by Andris Nelsons, Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, with internationally acclaimed soprano Lise Davidsen as guest soloist, who performs arias from Richard Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” and Giuseppe Verdi’s “La forza del destino.”