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Six Songs for Our Long-Awaited Spring

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

By Jeff Spurgeon : WQXR Host / Naomi Lewin : WQXR Host / Marc Garber : Host, WNYC News / Terrance McKnight : WQXR Host / Amy Eddings / Leonard Lopate : Host, The Leonard Lopate Show

These crocuses bathing in rays of sun make us yearn for Spring. (Shutterstock)

It feels like Winter is never going to end, but we can’t stop fantasizing about this Spring actually becoming Spring. So we asked some of our hosts to introduce us to their favorite luminous springtime songs to set the mood, whether or not the weather cooperates.

For Music Tracks:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/celebrate-death-winter-springtime-playlist/http://www.wnyc.org/story/celebrate-death-winter-springtime-playlist/

Jeff Spurgeon, WQXR Host

Jeff Spurgeon has been the guiding voice for a broadcast journalism class in a high school in Queens and several New York City choirs, hosting numerous concerts around the world and working as a radio host and newscaster for over 30 years.
Naomi Lewin, WQXR Host

Naomi Lewin is the weekday afternoon host on WQXR, and the host of WQXR’s weekly opera program Operavore, and weekly podcast Conducting Business.
Marc Garber, Host, WNYC News

Marc joined WNYC in 2006 after working most of the previous three decades in commercial radio, including at WQXR when it was still part of The New York Times Company.
Terrance McKnight, WQXR Host

Terrance McKnight's varied musical experience, from glee club soloist and accomplished pianist, to professor at Morehouse College, and finally as producer and host of several music programs for public radio, opens his listeners' minds and ears.
Amy Eddings

Amy Eddings is the local host of “All Things Considered,” which airs from 4 PM until 8 PM weekdays. She started hosting in 2004, after long-time host JoAnn Allen left for the West Coast. Before ATC, Amy was a reporter. Her favorite topics were--and still are--garbage and recycling, which she still reports on whenever she can get out of the studio.
Leonard Lopate, Host, The Leonard Lopate Show

On March 5, 2013, Leonard Lopate celebrated his twenty-eighth anniversary as the host of WNYC’s daily talk show The Leonard Lopate Show. Every weekday from 12:00pm to 2:00pm, New Yorkers explore literature, art, culture, food, and life in and around our city with Leonard Lopate as their guide.