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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
Fast becoming the go-to summer music festival in the Midwest, the concerts and workshops at the University of Missouri’s International Composers Festival are a sure-fire place to hear imaginative new music from emerging composers.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
José Guillermo Martínez: Danzas Tórridas
Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson
Charlie Piper: zoetrope
Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson
David Biedenbender: SCHISM
Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson
Texu Kim: Bounce!!
Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson
Clint Needham: Urban Sprawl
Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson
John Cheetham: A Brass Menagerie, I
München Brass Quintet
One of the first composers to graduate from the Beijing Conservatory upon its reopening after the Cultural Revolution and the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his opera Madame White Snake, Zhou Long creates thoughtful, spiritually-infused music that has resonated with audiences across the globe.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Zhou Long: Wood fr. The Five Elements (excerpt)
Music from China
Zhou Long: The Rhyme of Taigu
Singapore Symphony Orchestra/Lan Shui
Zhou Long: Soul
Shanghai Quartet; Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
Zhou Long: Water fr. The Five Elements (excerpt)
Music from China
Zhou Long: The Future of Fire
Singapore Symphony Orchestra & Singapore Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Lan
Shui
Zhou Long: The Ineffable
Laura Park, v.; David Fedele, fl.; David Fedele, picc.; Chris Finckel, vc.; William Trigg, perc.; Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
Percussionist Payton MacDonald calls Super Marimba the nexus point of all of his artistic activities. Featuring influences from jazz and classical to Hindustani and improvisational music, this is the marimba as you’ve never heard it before.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Ravi Shankar: Raga Bhimpalasi
Shankar, sitar
Payton MacDonald: Jor
Shawn Mativetsky, tabla
Payton MacDonald: For John & For Blake
MacDonald, super marimba
Gundecha Brothers: Raag Gaoti (alap) 2 (excerpt)
Gundecha Brothers
Payton MacDonald: Lifeboat No. 6
JACK Quartet; Young Voices of Colorado
Payton MacDonald: Concerto for Tabla and Percussion Quartet
Shawn Mativetsky, tabla; William Paterson University Percussion Ensemble/Payton MacDonald
We had the fantastic opportunity to travel to Wrocław, Poland to attend the storied World Music Days festival, where we met a wealth of Polish composers who are part of the living legacy of this vibrant cultural mecca.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Krzysztof Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2, Metamorphosen, V (excerpt)
London Symphony Orchestra/Penderecki; Anne-Sophie Mutter, v.
Witold Lutosławski, arr. Marta Ptaszynska: Paganini Variations
Safru Duo and Slovak Piano Duo
Hanna Kulenty: Breathe for String Orchestra
Wrocław Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra/Ernst Kovacic
Mateusz Ryczek: 28 Days of Moon
Ensemble Kwartludium
Marta Ptaszynska: La Novella d’Inverno (Winter’s Tale) for Strings
Polish Chamber Orchestra/Jerzy Maksymiuk
Zygmunt Krause: Fête galante et Pastorale (excerpt)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Jacek Rogala; Music Workshop
Generous sponsorship of these episodes has been provided by LOT Polish Airlines and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
We had the fantastic opportunity to travel to Wrocław, Poland to attend the storied World Music Days festival, where we met a wealth of Polish composers who are part of the living legacy of this vibrant cultural mecca.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Jacek Sotomski: beautiful to me. ah (excerpt)
NFOM Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum/Ernst Kovacic; Rafał Łuc, accord.; Jacek Sotomski, live electronics
Agata Zubel: Not I (excerpt)
Klangforum Wien/Clement Power
Michał Moc: stuntmen’s relay
AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of Tychy/Marek Moś
Paweł Hendrich: Emergon αβ (excerpts)
Ensemble Musikfabrik/Masson
Zygmunt Krauze: Piano Concerto No. 1 (excerpt)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Wojciech Michniewski; Krauze, p.
Generous sponsorship of these episodes has been provided by LOT Polish Airlines and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
We’re having a ball trying to keep up with our ever-expanding musical collection as composers and performers around the world joyously overwhelm us with their creations.
We’re consistently amazed by their level of talent and artistry, and are thrilled this week to share it with our listeners.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Greg Bowers: String Quartet No. 2, By-products of Mass Media
III. I’11/Artifly Away Songfact
The Boston String Quartet
Kolbeinn Einarsson: The Indigenous Spirit
Tobias Guttman, Marimba, Percussion; Ingólfur Vilhjalmsson, bass clarinet
Jonathan Kirk: The Metal Cicadas for Amplified Violin and Amplified Cello
Anna Cromwell, violin; Mira Frisch, vc.
Dan Cooper: Design Duo
Lynn Bechtold, violin; Jennifer DeVore, cello
Stephen Paulus: From Within fr. Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra,
Three Places of Enlightenment
Nashville Symphony/Giancarlo Guerrero; Jun Iwasaki, vln I; Carolynn Wann
Bailey, vln II; Daniel Reinker, vla; Anthony LaMarchina, vc.
Debra Kaye: And So It Begins, II. Andante
Javier Oviedo, ten sax; Amy Kimball & Lynn Bechtold, violins; Entela Barci, vla.;
Garo Yellin, vc.; Frank Wagner, double bass/Charles Coleman
Eric Chasalow: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, III. Distant
Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose; Bruno Schneider, horn
Nathan Lincoln DeCusatis: Oblivion, III. The Reckoning
Inscape/Richard Scerbo
Legendary composer George Crumb created a unique, haunting sound world that leaves an indelible impression upon anyone who hears it. The master turns 85 in October and we’ll celebrate with an entire show dedicated to his music.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
George Crumb: Vox Balanae, I (excerpt) & finale
eighth blackbird
Crumb: “Se ha llenado de luces mi corazón de seda” from Ancient Voices of Children
The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble/Arthur Weisberg; Jan DeGaetani, ms.; Michael Dash, boy soprano
Crumb: Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening) fr. Makrokosmos III
Gilbert Kalish &James Freeman, pianos; Raymond Des Roches & Richard Fitz, percussion
Crumb: “Deep River” fr. The River of Life
Orchestra 2001/James Freeman; Ann Crumb, voc.
Crumb: Tammy, Fritzi and Yoda fr. Mundis Canis
David Starobin, guitar; Crumb, perc.
Crumb: Black Angels, III. Return
Kronos Quartet
It takes fine craftsmanship to achieve a perfect partnership between text and music in which neither element overshadows the other. This week, we’ll listen to a fascinating array of spoken word and music by composers striving to achieve this symmetry.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Scott Johnson: How it Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone) (excerpt)
Kronos Quartet
Aaron Jay Kernis: Goblin Market, Part II, Scenes 2 & 3
The New Professionals/Rebecca Miller; Mary King, narrator
Martin Butler: The Tummy Beast fr. The Dirty Beasts
Soundwood Ensemble/David Campbell; Richard Stilgoe, narrator
Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World (excerpt)
Oregon Symphony/DePriest
David Lang: On Being Hit on the Head and On Hearing the Voice of God fr. Are You Experienced?
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne/Vaillancourt
Michael Daugherty: Sing Sing: J. Edgar Hoover
Kronos Quartet
Lee Hyla: Howl
Kronos Quartet, Alan Ginsburg, voice
Originally a German musical creation, Wandelweiser is a kind of extreme minimalism that is fast becoming popular with composers around the world. We talk with two of its creators, Jürg Frey and Eva-Maria Houben, about the phenomenal growth of this movement.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Jürg Frey: More or Less Normal
a.pe.ri.od.ic
Frey: 60 Pieces of Sound (excerpt)
a.pe.ri.od.ic
Eva-Maria Houben: Von da, nach da (excerpt)
Houben, org.; Sebastian Jeuck, sax.; Rommel Ayoub, vln.
Frey: Fragile Balance
a.pe.ri.od.ic
Houben: Go and Stop (excerpt)
R. Andrew Lee, p.
Special thanks to the co-organizers of the Chicago Wandelweiser Festival, Peter Margasak and Nomi Epstein.
Mystical Minimalist Arvo Pärt is one of the most significant composers in the 20th and 21st centuries, and in this program we’ll travel across the Baltic to Estonia to visit his musical homeland and talk with those curating his music.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel (rehearsal excerpt + concert performance)
Johannes Peeter Sarapuu, vc.; Joonas Mattias Sarapuu
Pärt: Für Alina
Johanna Kivimägi, p.
Pärt: Berliner Messe, Sanctus & Angus Dei
Estonian Chamber Orchestra & Estonian Philharmonic Choir/Tõnu Kaljuste
Pärt: Estonian Lullaby
Girls’ Choir of the Old Town Music House
Pärt: Vater Unser
Heldur Harry Põlda, s.; Arvo Pärt, p.
Pärt: Adam’s Lament (excerpt)
Sinfonietta Riga, Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis/Tõnu Kaljuste
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