Farrar Hudkins

Classical Music Producer

A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and alumnus of the University of New Orleans, Farrar Hudkins served WWNO as Announcer/Producer, Chief Announcer, Chief Classical Announcer/Producer, and interim Music Manager, between August 2001 and May 2016. During that time, he hosted evening and daytime classical music, morning and afternoon news, weekday and weekend programs. He also interviewed many performing artists, including Joshua Bell, Carlos Miguel Prieto, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and Emmanuel Ax. He also programmed classical music for WWNO/KTLN and WWNO-HD2 from 2007 to 2016. Mr. Hudkins participated in New Orleans' musical community as a trumpet player. He now resides in New York.

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A Conversation With Royal Harpist Claire Jones

By • Apr 8, 2016
Claire Jones.
John Oakley

Farrar Hudkins speaks with Welsh-born harpist Claire Jones.


Quartetto di Cremona: Recording all of Beethoven's String Quartets

By • Apr 7, 2016
Quartetto di Cremona violist Simone Gramaglia

Quartetto di Cremona has been performing Beethoven’s string quartet repertoire regularly since 2014, when they performed the complete Beethoven quartet cycle in Milan. Riding the heels of that concert success, they went into the studio to record all of Beethoven’s quartets.

After 10 Years On The Road, The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Returns To The Orpheum Theater

By • Sep 14, 2015
The Orpheum Theater has reopened after 10 years.
The Orpheum Theater

After ten years of post-Katrina concerts in other venues, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returns to the Orpheum Theater in New Orleans' Central Business District to open its 2015-16 concert season.

Louisiana Philharmonic Music Director Carlos Miguel Prieto On 'New Orleans And The Spanish World'

By • Jan 29, 2015
Intermusica

WWNO2 classical host Farrar Hudkins talks with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Carlos Miguel Prieto about this year's collaboration with the Historic New Orleans Collection, a concert called "New Orleans and the Spanish World."

Catch the free concert at St. Louis Cathedral on Wed., Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m., and streaming live on 89.9 WWNO and WWNO.org.

Designing, Staging And Performing 'Rusalka' At The New Orleans Opera Association

By • Nov 13, 2014
New Orleans Opera Association

The New Orleans Opera Association’s season continues this weekend with Rusalka, a work from 1900 by Antonín Dvořák, one of America’s favorite composers.

Robert Lyall, the opera company’s Executive and Artistic Director, talks about the production.

Inside The LPO's Season-Opener: '2014: A Strauss Odyssey'

By • Sep 20, 2014
Farrar Hudkins / WWNO

The LPO's season-opening concert this past Friday is called "2014: A Strauss Odyssey." Farrar Hudkins has more from inside the orchestra.  

New Orleans Flood Protection: Stronger Than Ever, Weaker Than Intended

By & Bob Marshall • Jun 5, 2014
US Army Corps of Engineers / Wikimedia

The 2014 hurricane season has started, and New Orleans metro area residents are living behind a new, $14.5 billion storm surge system acknowledged as the best they have ever had. 

But an investigation by The Lens shows this best-ever is still not as good as Congress originally ordered it to be.

Todd Simmons And "The Barber Of Seville"

By • Nov 13, 2012

WWNO's Farrar Hudkins talks with Todd Simmons, Executive Director of the New Orleans Opera Association, about the company's production of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" this weekend.

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

By • Nov 8, 2012

WWNO's Farrar Hudkins talks with New Orleans Friends of Music Board President Margaret Shields about Monday night's concert by the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Piano Trio.

Vance Woolf and Symphonic Brass

By • Nov 6, 2012
Vance Woolf
LPOMusic.com

Vance Woolf, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra's Principal Trumpet, talks with WWNO's Farrar Hudkins about this week's "Symphonic Brass" concerts.

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