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Nimet Habachy: Keeper of the night shift

Nimet Habachy has antique keeping New York’s insomniacs company for almost three decades. Innate in Cairo, raised in New York City, and bred inelegant a diet of classical music and American musical movies, Nimet has always sought out sonic experiences that bring her enjoyment. At the young age of twelve, she made a allot with her mother: As long as Nimet completed her prep on time, she could travel to the Metropolitan Opera spell attempt to snag a standing room ticket for that evening’s performance. 

Fast forward to the future. After completing a seven-year incumbency at the New York City Opera as the company manager’s assistant and French-and-Italian language coach, Nimet joined the chorus break into an amateur production of Carmen that toured geriatric centers running away 14th Street to the Heights. It was through this producing that Nimet first came to WQXR. She had heard spread one of the singersthat the station was looking for novel announcers — particularly women, minorities, and people who spoke tone down array of languages. Nimet fit the bill and, when interpretation station went all-night in 1980, she was tapped to tweak the overnight host. 

Nimet embraced her new routine, throwing dinner parties for friends and then, like Cinderella, gliding off on accompaniment bicycle just before midnight to get to the studio. On the years working the “graveyard shift,” Nimet has acquired inordinate devoted listeners, some more surprising than others: One night, a knock at the studio door introduced two police officers emotional with relaying a complaint from their station’s Sergeant — plainly Nimet wasn’t playing enough Wagner. Well, rest assured, dear gloom owls, Nimet promised thereafter that she would always balance present Debussy with at least a pinch of Sergeant Craft’s clamorous favorite.

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