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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
Chicago’s Lincoln Trio performs two large scale works, one a premiere, live on Relevant Tones from the stage of the Merit School of Music in the West Loop.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Laura Schwendinger: Arc of Fire (World Premiere)
Stacy Garrop: Sanctuary
Called one of the best drummers of all time by Gigwise magazine, Kotche is also a talented and multi-faceted composer who has worked with powerhouse groups like eighth blackbird, So Percussion and Kronos Quartet.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Kotche: Anomaly, II, III, IV, V, VII
Kronos Quartet; Kotche, perc.
Kotche: The Haunted (excerpts)
Lisa Kaplan & Yvonne Lam, pnos.; Doug Perkins & Matthew Duvall, perc.
Kotche: Triple Fantasy
Various artists
Kotche: The Traveling Turtle (excerpt)
Gamelan Galak Tika/Ziporyn
The story of the Nativity, infused by John Adams and Peter Sellars with texts new and old celebrating the miracle of birth and renewal.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Adams: El Niño (excerpts)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Nagano; Theatre of Voices; London Voices; Upshaw, s.; Lieberson, ms.; White, bar.
With roots in jazz, classical and sacred music, rhythmic influences derived from travels in six continents, and a combustible spontaneity, cellist Eugene Friesen (Paul Winter Consort), pianist and master harmonica player Howard Levy (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Kenny Loggins, Paquito d’Rivera), and percussionist Glen Velez (Paul Winter Consort, Steve Reich) epitomize the quintessential group for the 21st century.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Engineered by Eric Arunas
Street Corner (E. Freisen)
Steering by the Stars (H. Levy)
Miriam’s Prophecy (G. Velez)
In the Village (E. Freisen)
Drum Improv; Ghost in my Heart (E. Freisen)
Mi Yemalel (Trad.)
Brazilian Dorian Dream (M. Fest/H. Levy)
Lumbriga (H. Levy)
With groups like PLOrk and Benoit and the Mandelbrots leading the way, the laptop ensemble is becoming a force to be reckoned with. We’ll feature laptop ensembles improvising, playing composed music, live coding and even collaborating with an orchestra. Listen and believe!
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Benoit and the Mandelbrots – Ghostly
The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) – Inline
The Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) of Virginia Tech – Citadel
The Concordia Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk) – Excerpt from Creation
Performed by CLOrk, the Orchestre Symphonique de l’Isle; Cristian Gort, conductor
PLOrk – FourSquared
The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOL) Jargos Table (excerpt) by Van SteifelIn
ChucK (excerpt) by Stephen David, BeckCliX (excerpt) by Ge Wang
Manchester Metropolitan University Laptop Ensemble (MMUle – )Cut Up Slow Down
William S. Burrows, text; Martin Blaine, director
The EMU Ensemble – Ginger
Cristine Soeffing, director
Patricia Morehead, composer and oboist, is one of Chicago’s most prominent and influential composers. Her teaching and compositions have shaped generations of young composers much for the better, including our own Seth Boustead! Listen in this week as she discusses her music with us.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Turbion Galaxy for solo harpsichord- Jory Vinikour, harpsichord
Good News Falls Gently– Jonita Lattimore, soprano; Phillip Morehead, conductor, CUBE Ensemble; poetry by Regina Harris Biachi
Blackhawk Speaks (concert reading)- Vox 3 Singers, Saori Chobi, pianist, Michael McKelvane, conductor
Just Before the Rain– Yang Wei, pipa; Betty Sheng, erhu; Christie Miller, clarinet
Cityscape– Robert Winston, conductor; Symphony Orchestra of Kiev
Ladders of Anxiety– Caroline Pittman, solo flute; James Bauer, guitar; members of the Avalon Quartet; Blase Magniere, violin; Anthony De Vroy, viola; Chen How Lee, cello
This week, we look at composers releasing their music on older formats- vinyl and even cassette!
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
MUSIC
Elizabeth Start- Scents Sent (in a Sense)
Olafur Arnalds- Fyrsta
Christopher Bono- Invocation No. 1, Exhaust
The Roots featuring Mos Def- Double Trouble (excerpt)
LJ White- Zin Zin Zin Zin
Spektral QuartetReleased by Parlour Tapes
Tim Corpus- From Spring’s Thaw
Christopher Campbell- Imago
Arvo Pärt- Pro et Contra
Olafur Arnalds- This Place is a Shelter
This week we’ll talk with pianist, toy pianist and composer Phyllis Chen, who is celebrating the release of her third album, Little Things.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Stephen Montague: Mirabella a Tarentella for Toy Piano
John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano, II
Phyllis Chen: Cobwebbed Carousel
Angelica Nagron: The Little Things
Fabian Svensson: Toy Toccata
Karlheinz Essl: Whatever Shall Be
Nathan Davis: Mechanics of Escapement (excerpt)
Andrien Pertout: Pi Obstruction (excerpt)
Once a year the American Academy in Rome holds a competition, honoring 15 emerging artists as well as 15 scholars from the US with the so-called Rome Prize.
The winners are invited to the Academy, where they can thrive on the presence of cultural heritage as well as the exchange with the fellows from other fields.
We take a look at some of the compositions, that winners in musical composition have composed either while staying in Rome, or based on their experiences there.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Andrew Norman – A Companion Guide to Rome
Performed by the Scharoun Ensemble
Charles Norman Mason – Incantessimi
Steven M. Burke – Over a Moving Landscape
Performed by Paul Hostetter and the Sequitur Ensemble
Michael Hersch – Octet
Performed by members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Pierre Jalbert – Sonata for Solo Marimba
Performed by Makoto Nakura
Philip Glass is arguably the most famous plumber, mover and cab driver ever to work in New York. While not every example is that extreme, there are quite a few composers with day jobs – multitalented people, that advocate for their fellow composers, write, work in radio or have a Ph.D in neuroscience.
Tune in to listen to their works, and to find out what’s up with the elephants.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
John Duffy – Clarinet Concerto
Performed by JoAnn Falletta and the Virginia Arts Festival Wind Ensemble with Patti Ferrell Carlson
Kyle Gann – Sunken City, (mvt. 1, Before)
Performed by Jussi Jaatinen and the Orkest de Volharding with Geoffrey Douglas Madge
Dave Soldier – Little Andre
Performed by Robert Dick
Ed Harsh – Trill
Performed by the Cecilia String Quartet
Frank J. Oteri – Fair and Balanced? (mvt. 1, Remaining Neutral, and mvt. 2, Seeming Partial)
Performed by PRISM Saxophone Quartet
William Susman – I (mvt. 1, Vitality and mvt. 3, triumph)
Performed by Octet
Dan Gilliam – The Trees are Silver
Performed by the Arsenal Trio
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