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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
Phil Kline is a composer who makes music in many genres and contexts, from experimental electronics and sound installations to songs, choral, theater, chamber and orchestral music.
He also hosts a two-hour show weekdays at 11am – with repeat presentations at 7 pm – on Q2 Music. Seth and Phil passionately discuss music that’s hot off the presses in this new series ‘Soundward.’
Hosted by Seth Boustead and Phil Kline
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis and Hannis Brown
George Hurd, Carla Kihlstedt
Navigation Without Numbers [EXCERPT]
George Hurd: Navigation Without Numbers
Nathan Davis
Ghostlight [EXCERPT]
On the Nature of Thingness
Nathan Davis
On the Nature of Thingness – An Outside with the Inside in it
On the Nature of Thingness
George Hurd, Carla Kihlstedt
Navigation Without Numbers
George Hurd: Navigation Without Numbers
Knut Müller
Gnomon
Stravinsky
Les Noces – Scene 4: The Wedding Feast
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Stravinsky: Les Noces
Zachary Wadsworth
A Symphony of Glances – A Symphony of Glances: II. Down the long desolate streets
Augenblick
Danny Clay, Mabel Kwan
Build 1
Inventions
Danny Clay, Mabel Kwan
Build 5
Inventions
Chicago’s storied Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians has provided a unique place for musicians of all kinds to create unique and stunning new creations.
AACM turned 50 in 2015 and we’ll celebrate with performances of Afterword, an opera about the AACM by longtime member and celebrated composer George Lewis.
We’ll chat with Lewis about the piece, the AACM, and play music by other AACM composers.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Music
Muhal Richard Abrams
Blues Forever [EXCERPT]
George Lewis
Afterword, an Opera; Act I [EXCERPT]
Henry Threadgill
Ceroepic (For Drums And Percussion) [EXCERPT]
In For A Penny, In For A Pound
George Lewis
Afterword, an Opera; Act I [EXCERPT]
Nicole Mitchell
Afrika Rising Mvmt III: Intergalactic Healing
Afrika Rising
George Lewis
Afterword, an Opera; Act II [EXCERPT]
Tomeka Reid
Super Nova [EXCERPT]
L.A. based ensemble wild Up is making their mark on the national contemporary music scene. We caught up with them at the recent Sonic Festival in New York City and will play music from that concert.
Live recordings from their albums Feather and Stone and You of All Things, an album collaboration with Icelandic choir Graduale Nobili, are also featured.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
In light of Steven Stucky’s recent and sudden death, we will be featuring works from his impressive repertoire. Stucky had a chameleon -like composing range using influences from Debussy, Schönberg, Lutoslawski, and more.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Sarah Zwinklis
Four-time Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird performs music from their recent collaboration with the Sleeping Giant collective. A concert recorded live from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where they are currently resident artists.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Timo Andres: Checkered Shade
eighth blackbird
Ted Hearne: By-By Huey
eighth blackbird
Robert Honstein: Pulse & Touch from Conduit
eighth blackbird
The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a relatively new but impressive festival held by the prestigious conservatory of music.
The final edition in this four part series features music of faculty composers at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Zhu Shirui: Three Poetic Fantasias
Ensemble Intercontemporain
LV Huang: Reset
Ensemble Offspring/Roland Peelman
Wen Deqing: The Deep Tunnel Oratorio for the 70th anniversary of Victory of the Anti-Fascist War
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra & Shanghai Opera House Chorus; Shenyang, bass-baritone; Zheng Yao, tenor
Ye Guohui: Echoes of Shanghai
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/Rabl; Mengla Huang, v.
The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a relatively new but impressive festival held by the prestigious conservatory of music.
This third in a four-part series features premiere performances of music by the guest composers.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Stimmung (excerpts)
Ensemble Vocal Sequence
Damien Ricketson: Tesserae
Ensemble Offspring
Koji Nakano: Time Song III- Reincarnation “The Birth of a Spirit”
Ensemble Offspring
Pierre Boulez: Improvisé
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Luciano Berio: Cries of London (excerpt)
Ensemble Vocal Sequence
Gérard Grisey: Vortex Temporum (excerpt)
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Fausto Romitelli: Domeniche alla periferia della’impero
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Though relatively new on the scene, with their signature combination of virtuosic playing, audience-friendly manner and willingness to take risks, Spektral Quartet is proving to be a string quartet to watch. We’ll feature their latest release on the Sono Luminus label, Serious Business.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Chris Fisher-Lochhead: Hack, Set I
Set I: Lenny Bruce/Sarah Silverman/Dave Chapelle
Spektral Quartet
Sky Macklay: Many Many Cadences
Spektral Quartet
David Reminick: The Ancestral Mousetrap (excerpts)
Spektral Quartet
Chris Fisher-Lochhead: Hack, Set III & IV
Set III: Rodney Dangerfield/Sam Kinison/Rodney Dangerfield/Redd Foxx/Rodney Dangerfield/Kumail Nanjiani/Rodney Dangerfield/Mort Sahl/Rodney Dangerfield/Susie Essman/Rodney Dangerfield
Set IV: Richard Pryor/Robin Williams/Ms. Pat/Tig Notaro
Spektral Quartet
The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a relatively new but impressive festival held by the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music. This second in a four-part series features the resident composers and some of the students involved in the festival.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Chen Yi: Night Thoughts (excerpts)
Members of the Shanghai Chamber Orchestra/Gottfried Rabl
Chen Yi: Momentum
Shanghai Chamber Orchestra/Gao Jian
Jean-Patrick Besingrand: Interjections and Fragmentations
Ensemble Offspring/Roland Peelman
Geng Shiqi: Spring Rain of a Lotus Pond
Ensemble Offspring/Roland Peelman
Wu Fan: Jumping Lines and Surfaces
Ensemble Offspring/Roland Peelman
Beat Furrer: Gaspra (excerpt)
Ensemble Recherche
The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a relatively new but impressive festival held by the oldest conservatory of music in China. This first in a four-part series features the music of Chinese composers featured at the festival.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Wen Deqing: The Glamor of Shanghai Concerto (excerpt)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/Gottfried Rabl; Qin Li-Wei, vc.
Chen Musheng – Morning Rays on the Sea (excerpt)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/ Rabl; Yunggie Ma, voice
Wen Deqing: The Sound Shining
Ensemble Intercontemporain/Beat Furrer; Lu Yiwen, erhu
Jia Daqun: The Prospect of Colored Desert
Ensemble Offspring/Roland Peelman
Ye Guohui: Beijing Opera Silhouettes
Ensemble Offspring/Peelman
Lu Pei: Rhythm of Shanghai (excerpt)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/Gottfried Rabl; Jiang Hanchao, saxophone
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