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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
This weekend we’re featuring the Eviyan Trio. The performers in the group are Iva Bittova, Gyan Riley and Evan Ziporyn. These three composers/musicians combine their influences from around the world to create a soundtrack for the 21st century global village.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Eviyan Trio – Odd Meeting
Iva Bittova – Dos Kelbl (The Little Calf)
Terry Riley and Gyan Riley – Turning
Gyan Riley – Guitar Etude
Evan Ziporyn – Tire Fire
Eviyan Trio – Paper ConeListen– Kind of Nice
Persian poet and mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi has had an enormous influence not only on other poets and writers but on thinkers of all kinds. We play music on today’s program by several composers inspired by this timeless poet’s work.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Karol Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3, Vienna Phil/Boulez
Augusta Read Thomas: Rumi Settings, III & IV, Stephan and Julian Hersh
Eric Whitacre: “This Marriage” BYU Singers
David del Tredici: “Quietness” from Three Baritone Songs
Chris Pedro Trakas, baritone; David Del Tredici, p.
Christopher Theofanidis: The Here and Now, III & IX
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Robert Spano; soloists
Christopher Theofanidis: Messages to Myself, Musica Sacra/Kent Tritle
Kamran Ince: (Gloria) Everywhere from And On Earth, Peace, Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winning composer Stephen Albert died tragically in 1992, well before his time. On the occasion of an important performance of his seminal piece To Wake the Dead in Chicago, we take a moment to celebrate his legacy and to feature a piece inspired by his music.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Stephen Albert – Symphony No. 1, Movement 1
Christopher Rouse – Symphony No. 2, Movement 2
Stephen Albert – To Wake the Dead
Stephen Albert – Symphony No. 2
Seth interviews John Corigliano. We will feature music from the films Altered States and Revolution as well as a piece of surprisingly stunning beauty for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Altered States, Christopher Keene (conductor)
Chiaroscuro, Blair McMillen and Sachiko Kato (pianos)
Revolution, Harry Rabinowitz (conductor)
Filled with Latin rhythms and theatrical drama, Osvaldo Golijov‘s setting of the St. Mark passion is both universally appealing and intensely personal, reflecting his own influences as an Argentinean-born Jewish composer of Russian and Romanian extraction.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Long a masterful purveyor of glissandi, harmonics, and heavenly arpeggios, the harp has leapt into the modern era with a plethora of dynamic new compositions. We’ll sample a few this week to see just how far the instrument has come since the days of Wagner and Tchaikovsky.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Claude Debussy – Trio for flute, viola, and harp, Debussy Trio
Toru Takemitsu – And then I knew ’twas wind
Aurèle Nicolet (flute), Nobuko Imai (viola), Naoko Yoshino (harp)
Angelica Negron – Drawings for Meyoko
Janus Trio
Luciano Berio – Sequenza II
Frederique Cambreling (harp)Purchase
Hans Werner Henze – Carillon, Recitatif, and Masque
Noble Fowl Trio
Mischa Zupko – Despedida, Jule Ann Smith
Stephen Andrew Taylor – Unfurl, Duo Scorpio
In this show we feature music performed by the Ying Quartet from their LifeMusic project. The project began in the late 1990s and seeks to create new works inspired by different facets of the American experience. In doing so the group has commissioned works of contemporary relevance and high aesthetic standards.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Kevin Puts – Dark Vigil
Michael Torke – Corner in Manhattan
Chen Yi – Making the Hand-Pulled Noodles
Augusta Read Thomas – Eagle at Sunrise
Carter Pann – Love Letters
Pierre Jalbert – Icefield Sonnets
From joint commissions to Kickstarter, the 21st century has brought new ways of hiring composers to write music. This week, we’ll look at some of the more unusual and innovative methods and the music that resulted and we’ll chat with NewMusicUSA’s Frank J. Oteri and Scott Winship.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Joan Tower – Made in America, Leonard Slatkin, Nashville Symphony
Michael Holober – Chorale, American Saxophone Quartet, Larry Combs(clarinet)
Michael Gordon – Rushes, Dana Jessen
Steven Mackey – Prelude to the End, Soli Chamber Ensemble
Stacy Garrop – In Eleanor’s Words, Buffy Baggott(mezzo-soprano), Kuang-Hao Huang(piano)
Stacy Garrop – String Quartet No. 3 “Gaia”, Biava Quartet
Joseph Schwantner – Chasing Light, Giancarlo Guerrero, Nashville Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, one of the world’s top composers, conductors and supporters of new music stops by to talk about his latest album. Featured works include the Violin Concerto and Nyx.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond., Leila Josefowicz, vln.
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Seth talks with composer Eve Beglarian about her upcoming River Project release.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Down the Dirt Road Blues (excerpt), Charlie Patton, guitar & vocals
I’m worried now, but I won’t be worried long
I am really a very simple person
In and Out of the Game, Guidonian Hand Trombone Quartet
Pump Music
Waiting for Billy Floyd
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now (excerpt), Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Brownie Feet
The Flood
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