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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
Cellist, music educator, and concert organizer Tom Clowes talks with Seth about the music of Haitian composers.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Sabrina C. D. Jean Louis- Clair de Lune (arr. for four cellos)
Trad: Papa Simbi Sent Me To Find Water, Smithsonian Folkways 06833
Werner Jaegerhuber- Suite FolkloriqueI. ErzulieII. DambalaIV. Papa Simbi
J. Rudy Perrault- Exodus String Quartet, 1. Tale (Generations of Suffering)
Claude Dauphin – String Quartet Op. 3 “From Exile/ lòt bò dlo”I. Allegro e danzante
Michel Monton arr. Fritz Bernardin – Choucounne (for string trio)
Julio Racine- Haitian-American- Quartet No. 1 AllegroII. Yanvalou lentIII. Allegro moderato
All tracks performed by the Crossing Borders Music collective, which includes:Sara Chazin, ln.Maya Shiraishi, vln.Benjamin Weber, vla.Tom Clowes, vc.
Iconic Chicago composer Robert Lombardo and his wife Kathleen Lombardo visit the WFMT studio to talk about Bob’s music and their many years of collaborative art-making.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
New music for Christmas that has nothing to do with Christmas! You're welcome.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Sebastian Currier: Entanglement, Yehonatan Berick, violin; Laura Melton, piano
Elliot Carter: Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux, Claire Chase, fl.; Josh Rubin, cl
Eric Whitacre: Sleep, Grant Park Chrous
Tan Dun: Concerto for Orchestra, I & II, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Anders Hillborg: Peacock Tales, Australian Chamber Orchestra/Tognetti; Martin Fröst, cl.
John Link: Around the Bend, Flexible Music
Aaron Jay Kernis, Yale faculty member and recent winner of Northwestern University’s Nemmers Prize, visits to talk music, life and everything.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Ecstatic Meditations
Mikrokosmos Chamber Choir/Loïc Pierre conducting
Sym of Meditations, Meditation on Oneness
Yale Symphony Orchestra & Glee Club/Kernis; Amanda Hall, sop.
Double Concerto, I
Cho-Liang Lin, v. & Sharon Isbin, g.; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff
Pandora Dance from Colored Field
San Francisco Symphony/Alasdair Neale; Julie Ann Giacobassi, english horn
Two Movements with Bells, I
James Ehnes, v.; Andrew Armstrong, p.
Too Hot Tocatta (excerpt)
Grant Park Symphony Orchestra/Carlos KalmarPurchase
Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente visits Relevant Tones to discuss recent performances and successes, including winning the Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreise in Darmstadt, Germany.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
The second in a two-part series featuring the music of George Flynn.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
St. Vincent’s Words, DePaul University Singers/Clayton Parr
Chicago Mood, Cory Tiffin, cl.; George Flynn, p.
From an Island, Nessinger, ms.; Feinberg, p.
Density of Memory, Larry Combs, Julie DeRoche, Wagner Compos, cl; Colnot, DePaul Orchestra
American Howl, Anaphora Ensemble
Moods for Orchestra, Oistrakh Orchestra
Toward the Light (excerpt)Flynn, p.
George Flynn chaired Musicianship and Composition at DePaul University (Chicago) for 25 years, and continues to direct DePaul’s professional contemporary performance series, “New Music Depaul” as well as Chicago’s “New Music at the Green Mill” series.
He has composed over 100 works in all media, including over five hours of piano solo music, the latter performed by international pianists as well as Chicago pianists Stuart Leitch and Frank Abbinanti.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
‘Til Death, Katherine Hughes, v.George Flynn, p.
Fuguing, Flynn, p.
Wound (exerpt)Flynn, p.
Death Has Won the Soul from Songs of Destruction, Leila Bowie, s.; George Flynn, p.
Introduction and Lullaby from American Rest, Combs, cl.; Conant, vla.; Costanza, vc.; Leitch, p.
Deep Sleep & Nightmare, two nocturnes from American Rest, Flynn, p.
Fantasy Etudes I & II for Violin, Gratovich, v.
This week we’re featuring cellist Maya Beiser‘s latest CD with composer and pianist Michael Harrison, Time Loops.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Michael Harrison: Just Ancient Loops, I
Harrison: Time Loops
Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
Harrison: Raga Prelude I (Yaman)
Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Harrison: Hijaz, Young People’s Chorus of New York City/Núñez; Beiser, vc.
Composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition. She takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations.
Gramophone reports, “Bielawa is gaining gale force as a composer, churning out impeccably groomed works that at once evoke the layered precision of Vermeer and the conscious recklessness of Jackson Pollock,” and The New York Times describes her music as, “ruminative, pointillistic and harmonically slightly tart.”
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
This Time from Seven Kafka Songs
Carla Kihlstedt, violin & voice
Double Violin Concerto, II
Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Rose; Kihlstedt & Jacobsen, vlns.
#11 from Synopses– “It Takes One to Know One”
Robert Schulz, drumset
Concerto for Orchestra, In Medias Res
Boston Modern Orchestra Project/RosePurchase
Nothing fr. Chance Encounter
The Knights; Susan Narucki, sop.
Conductor Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra have created a thriving community of composers who have come to be known as “The Atlanta School”. They include Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Theofanidis, Osvaldo Golijov, and Michael Gandolfi, and this week we’ll listen to their music.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Michael Gandolfi: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, I-III
Christopher Theofanidis: Drumsound Rises from The Here & Now
Osvaldo Golijov: Second Wave & Aria fr. Oceana, Luciana Souza, voc.
Jennifer Higdon: On a Wire, Eighth Blackbird
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