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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
It’s a format as old as time: two guys sit down to play music and talk about it.
Soundward, a continuing collaboration between Relevant Tones and Q2 Music, features lively conversation, new releases from composers around the globe and interesting new discoveries.
Hosted by Seth Boustead and Phil Kline
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Once relegated solely to the status of folk instrument, the accordion is being used more and more by composers around the world in a stunning variety of different musical contexts.
We’ll feature music for this storied instrument and talk to a few of the composers about how it inspired them.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
A Way Through by Jane O’Leary
Dermot Dunne, accordion; Madeleine Staunton, alto flute; Paul Roe, bass clarinet
Slow Motion by Toshio Hosokawa
Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
Gate Keepers by Tomi Raisanen
Wu Wei, sheng; Pascal Contet, accordion
Glimmer by Richard Warp
Stas Venglevski, accordion
Metal Work by Magnus Lindberg
Sofia Ahjoniemi, accordion; Julien Mégroz, percussion
Recall by Per Norgard
Bjarke Mogensen, accordion; Danish National Chamber Orchestra; Rolf Gupta, conductor
For this exciting new series Relevant Tones is teaming up with Open G Records and Access Contemporary Music to present a quarterly live broadcast at Brooklyn’s hottest new venue National Sawdust.
Much of the music for this series will be programmed from an international ‘call for scores.’
Squaring the Circle, by J Mark Scearce
Veil, by Seth Boustead
Umber Sepia, by Deirdre McKay
Three by Three, by Eric Nathan
Touching the Fog, by Agnieszka Stulginska
Sleep Now, O Sleep Now, by Alan Theisen
Book of Hours, mvts. 1 & 2, by Jeremy Gill
Performers:
Chris Grymes, clarinet and bass clarinet
Molly Morkoski, piano
Adelya Nartadjieva, violin
Suliman Tekalli, violin
Matthew Cohen, viola
James Kim, cello
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams, who until very recently made his home in Alaska, is far from the only composer to be inspired by winter landscapes.
We’ll celebrate the season with music from around the world by composers inspired by winter.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Der Greise Kopf by Franz Schubert
Schnee by Hans Abrahamsen
Tundra Songs by Derek Charke
Lullaby by Derek Charke
Throat Song by Derek Charke
Winterlicht VIII by In-Sun Cho
Cercle du Nord III by Derek Charke
The Open House movement began in the 1980’s in London as a celebration of the city’s justifiably famous architecture but it was so successful that it soon spread to more than 40 cities around the world.
For the last six years Access Contemporary Music has commissioned composers to write music inspired by the spaces and put musicians in the spaces to perform the music.
We’ll feature a wide range of music written for, and performed in, buildings in Chicago, Milwaukee and Barcelona.
For more videos of other ACM performances check out the website here.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, the Gaudeamus Muziekwiek is a powerhouse contemporary music festival showcasing young talent from around the world.
The second of our two-part series will feature interviews and audio from the established mentor composers at this year’s festival.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Yair Klartag
There’s no lack of void
Anthony Vine
For Agnes Martin
Ruud Roelofsen
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Shih-Wei Lo
Things Hoped For
James O’Callaghan
Pre-Echo (after empties)
Seung-Won Oh
JungGa
Ton de Leeuw
Modal Music
Anthony Vine
Between Blue
Celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, the festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, in the Netherlands is a powerhouse contemporary music festival showcasing young talent from around the world.
Every year the Gaudeamus Award is granted to a new music pioneer, this year nominees include Giulio Colangelo, David Bird, James O’Callaghan, Anthony Vine, and Shih-Wei Lo, all under the age of 30.
In this first of a two-part series we travel to Utrecht to feature music from the young composers chosen to take part this year.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Michel van der Aa
Up Close
David Bird
Drop
Giulio Colangelo
Organismo Aperto no 1
Stefano Scodanibbio
Voyage Started
Shih-Wei Lo
Madhye II
It’s quite common in academia, journalism and literature for two authors to team up to write an article or book but significantly less so in music.
Still, it does happen and the results are often fascinating. Where does one idea start and the other continue? How do two composers work together to write a seamless piece?
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
For more than thirty years, young composers have traveled to Holland to worship at the altar of Louis Andriessen, perhaps most notably the three composers from the storied collective Bang on a Can.
As a result Andriessen, and Bang on a Can themselves, have had an outsize influence on the music of our time.
We’ll feature Andriessen’s work and many of the composers who have made the pilgrimage.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Louis Andriessen
Workers Union
David Lang
Street
Steve Reich
Music For 18 Musicians
Louis Andriessen
Hoketus
Oscar Bettison
O Death – Take leave of carnal vain delight
Missy Mazzoli
Cathedral City
Julia Wolfe
Mvmt IV: Flowers
Bryce Dressner
St. Carolyn By The Sea
Not surprisingly, the natural world is a never-ending source of fascination and inspiration for composers.
From the datura plant in southern China to a rare bird in the wilds of Australia to strange animals that exist only in the composer’s imagination, we’ll feature music inspired by the boundless creativity of nature.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Mason Bates
Anthology of Fantastic Zoology
Alexander Raskatov
Night Butterflies: Volante
Alexander Raskatov
Night Butterflies: Adagietto
Alexander Raskatov
Night Butterflies: Vivo meccanico
Don Freund
There is Often No Pressure to be a Giraffe If You Are Not One
Paintings Composed
Mamoru Fujieda
“The Olive Branch Speaks”: Pattern A
Takashi Yoshimatsu
And Birds are still?
Tobias Picker
Invisible Lilacs: Very Fast
Mason Bates
Anthology of Fantastic Zoology
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