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Relevant Tones features interviews with and music by some of the most creative figures in contemporary classical music, themed shows exploring new trends in classical music and frequent live streamed shows featuring conversations and music performances.
Hosted and produced by Seth Boustead, Austin Williams, Stephen Anthony Rawson and Matt Dotson.
Copyright: © Seth Boustead
Great music is a game of expertise, luck, and chance. Seth deals out a playlist of great music including David Maslanka and discusses why it’s a winner in this year’s Dealer’s Choice.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
A Child’s Garden of Dreams by David Maslanka
Illinois State University Wind Symphony; Stephen K. Steele, conductor
Shadow Light by Elena Ruehr
New Orchestra for Washington; Marcus Thompson, viola
The Glass Bead Game; Mvmt III. The Glass Bead Game (Fantasia)
by Claude Baker
St. Louis Symphony; Leonard Slatkin, conductor
The Shaman by Vincent Ho
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor; Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Elastic Band; Mvmt II. Pure Happenchance by Joel Philip Freidman
New Orchestra for Washington
Mexican composer Javier Alvarez uses his travels to create eclectic electroacoustic works using influences from Mexico to Cuba, the Caribbean to Korea.
Composer John Adams said the music of Alvarez “reveals influences of popular cultures that go beyond the borders of our own time and place.”
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Jardines conPalmera
I. Jardín de la estela de madera
II. Jardín del sueño de Magali
Florent Jodelet, Orchestre Nationale de France & Didier Benetti
OffrandeI. Mains aux oiseauxIV.
Delfín herido de muerte
Tambuco, ensamble de percusiones, Ricardo Gallardo and Alfredo Bringas
Geometría Foliada
I. De mis días en el campo
II. Otoño pentagonal
III. Puntos en Eje
IV. Un primer hola para un último adiós
V. Memorias futuras.
Cuarteto; José White, José Areán and Orquesta Sinfónica del Palacio de Minería
The ever-busy New York-based chamber orchestra The Knights has worked with some of the top composers and musicians in the world including Osvaldo Golijov on a stunning new release of his large scale symphonic work, Azul.
The piece draws on several world music traditions as do the other pieces on the album. We talked to founding violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen about music, world travel and more.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Ascending Bird by Siamak Aghaei & Colin Jacobsen
The Knights
Azul: I. Paz Sulfúrica, II. Silencio by Osvaldo Golijov
The Knights
Azul: III. Transit, IV. Yrushalem by Osvaldo Golijov
The Knights
JUNO-nominated composer Nicole Lizée creates new music from an eclectic mix of influences including the earliest MTV videos, turntablism, rave culture, Hitchcock, Kubrick, 1960s psychedelia and 1960s modernism.
She is fascinated by the glitches made by outmoded and well-worn technology and captures these glitches, notates them and integrates them into live performance.
Nicole’s compositions range from works for orchestra and solo turntablist, featuring DJ techniques fully notated and integrated into a concert music setting, to other unorthodox instrument combinations that include the Atari 2600 video game console, omnichords, and stylophones just to name a few.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Bookburners
Stéphane Tétreault, cello; Paolo Kapunan [DJ Love], Turntables
Death to Kosmische*
Kronos Quartet
*Recorded by New York Public Radio’s New Sounds at The Greene Space
White Label Experiment
Sō Percussion; Nicole Lizée, turntables & omnichord
Hitchcock Études
Megumi Masaki, piano & background vocals
We invite some of our favorite musical friends to bring a new recording into the studio for listening, lively discussion and the joy of new discoveries. Seth sits down with violinist Doyle Armbrust and composers Kyong Mee Choi, Nomi Epstein, and Jeff Kowalkowski.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
In the Light of Air: I. Luminance, by Anna Thorvaldsdottir
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
In the Arms of Peril, by Scott A. Wyatt
Scott A. Wyatt, electronics
Brocade, by Linda Catlin Smith
Katelyn Clark, harpsichord; Luciane Cardassi, piano
Nonet (1969), by Herbert Brün
University of Illinois New Music Ensemble feat: David Barford; Darrell Dalton; John Fonville; William de Fotis; Charles Lipp; Jim Staley; Dana Thomas; James Thornton
Since his early teens, Thomas Adès has been a commanding figure in the world of classical music as a triple threat pianist, conductor and composer.
Seth talks with him about his career including his work at, among others, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw, Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies, BBC Symphony, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Chamber Symphony
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Thomas Adès, conductor
Living Toys
London Symphonietta
Violin Concerto: Concentric Paths
Anthony Marwood, violin; Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Thomas Adès, conductor
Asyla
London Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Adès, conductor
Tevot
Berliner Philharmoniker; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Founding cellist of Eighth Blackbird, Nick Photinos, joins us in WFMT’s Levin Studio in Chicago to play pieces from his first solo album.
Nick worked with an exciting array of diverse composers on the album including David T. Little, Angélica Négrón, Florent Ghys, Andrew Norman and Bryce Dessner.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Lewisburg, by Bryce Dessner
Nick Photinos, cello
Sit and Dance, by Molly Joyce
Nick Photinos, cello
and the sky was still there, by David T. Little
Nick Photinos, cello
Panorama, by Angélica Negrón
Nick Photinos, cello
Petits Artéfacts, by Florent Ghys
Nick Photinos, cello
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) holds arguably the world’s most important contemporary music festival in a different city each year. Much like the Olympics, cities bid to be the host and this year it’s in Vancouver.
In this second program of two, we hear from Canadian composer, Jennifer Butler, Lituanian composer, Sabina Ulubeanu, young American composer, Robert J Coe, and more, all performed by Vancouver’s best musicians.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Klee Wyck Woman, by Jennifer Butler
Emily Carr Quartet; Marion Newman, mezzo soprano
Tonight My Shadow Sinks Into the Wall, by Vytautas Germanavicius
Müge Buyukcelen, violin
Vox Terminus, by Frederik Gran
NOW Society Ensemble; JP Carter, trumpet; Joshua Zubot, violin; Lisa Cay Miller, piano; James Meger, bass; Skye Brooks, drums
Gestalt X, by Frederick Neyrinck
Bozzini Quartet
Freycinet, by Robert J Coe
Emily Carr Quartet
Cadenza lirica, by Sabina Ulubeanu
Müge Buyukcelen, violin
Production company Access Contemporary Music has partnered with the esteemed Manhattan venue, LPR – (Le) Poisson Rouge a multimedia art cabaret founded by musicians on the site of the historic Village Gate.
Pianist Jenny Lin is taking the stage for the first in this exciting new series. This concert is celebrating Philip Glass’s 81st birthday with a live performance of his Piano Etudes coinciding with her album release.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Composer Jeremy Gill recently had the opportunity of a lifetime when the Boston Modern Orchestra Project agreed to record not one, not two, but three of his concertos.
We’ll talk with Jeremy and clarinet soloist Chris Grymes about this fantastic new release and play as much of it as we can.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Before the Wresting Tides
Serenada Concertante
Notturno Concertante
Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose, conductor
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