Our Common Nature
Hosted by Manny and Manny Ax and Emanuel Ax · WNYC, WQXR
4.8from 396 ratings
- 29
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 396
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Our Common Nature
Join renowned pianist and host Emanuel Ax for Classical Music Happy Hour: a new podcast full of music, merriment, and conversation. Manny (Emanuel) talks with an eclectic lineup of composers, performers, and creative voices from the world of classical music and beyond. Each episode explores the guest’s life and career, dives into their favorite classical gems, includes music-inspired games, and folds in questions from listeners. The result is a podcast that feels like a relaxed gathering of friends who love classical music and want others to join the party. Grab a cocktail and press play on a podcast celebrating our love of all things classical music!
- Publisher
- WNYC, WQXR
- Category
- music · society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Sept 2025
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 29 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Manny Ax Remembers the Magic of Horowitz
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Manny in the Hot Seat
21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Manny Loves Aida: A Special from Aria Code
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Manny Ax Remembers the Magic of Horowitz
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The stagehands back then noticed that he would ask them to move the piano around, and it always ended up on the same spot. So to help them, they put three screws in the stage, to mark where the legs of the piano for his piano would go. And he would come back and he would do the same thing all over. He would move the piano. And I'm not talking moving it all over the place. It was just a few inches here and there and up and down. And when all was said and done, they were always over the screws, which was always pretty amazing to me, you know. And so in 1986, when they were replacing the stage floor, one of the stagehands, George MacDonald, decided to cut them out of the stage floor and he marked them and gave them to me when we were just starting the archives in 1986. […]
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- Ray Chen
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- Yefim Bronfman
- Isabel Hagen
- Nicholas Britell
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Who hosts Our Common Nature?
Manny and Manny Ax and Emanuel Ax host the show. Published by WNYC, WQXR.
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