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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
During this week’s Relevant Tones, Seth Boustead continues to share more music and interviews from the Bang on a Can Marathon 2012.
Part II features composers Evan Ziporyn and David Lang, two galvanizing forces in the Bang on a Can Marathons.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Evan Ziporyn: Tire Fire, Mvts. 1, 4, 5, Gamelan Galak Tika
Evan Ziporyn: Music from Shadowbang, Bang on a Can All-Stars
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing, Bang on a Can All-Stars
David Lang: Little Matchgirl Passion (excerpt), Theatre of Voices
Starting in 2004 Access Contemporary Music has read and recorded a piece of music by a living composer every week and posted it to their website. We sample just a few of the highlights from the past eight years of this remarkable program.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Malcolm Dedman: Dispelling the Darkness, Chie Yoshinaka, violin
Bryan Page: Kick the Duck, Richard Sladek, piano
Javier Torres Maldonado: Reflejo Espiral, Alicia Poot, flute, Matthew Peters, percussion
Ioannis Papaspyrou: Will McDaniel, pno, Cory Tiffin, cl, Eliza Bangert, fl, Dave Moss, vla
Silvia Simons: String Quartet, Eric Pidluski, vln, Sarah Cave, vln, Jules Lai, vla, Chai Wolfman, vc
Mark Zanter: Seven Trio, Aurelian Pederzolil, vln, Becca Wilcox, vla, David Keller, vc
Emil Margolis: String Quartet No.I, Mvmt. IChicago Q Ensemble
Aaron Alon: Spell, Jeff Yang, Violin, Alyson Berger, Cello, Dan Klingler, Cello
This week, we’ll listen to how composers are using samples and remixes of recordings to generate an entirely new sound palette.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia for Eight Voices and Orchestra – excerpt
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ChaillyLuciano Berio
John Matthias/Nick Ryan: Cortical Songs
John Matthias and Nick Ryan
Thom Yorke: Neuron Trigger
RemixThom Yorke
Jem Finer: The Squid’s Terror of Dry Land
Graham Reynolds: The Difference Engine- The Cogwheel Brain
Octopus Project: The Cogwheel Brain (remix) The Octopus Project
Tansy Davies: Greenhouses
Mira Calix: Greenhouses (remix) – excerpt
Mercury Acoustic: Last Orders, The Mercury Quartet
Monsieur Morphée: Last Orders (remix)
Based on the Bhagavad Gita, a Sanskrit text that delves into the discussion between the divine Krishna and earthbound Arjuna, Douglas Cuomo’s Arjuna’s Dilemma draws from both Indian and western musical traditions to create a compelling musical drama. Cuomo joins Seth in the studio to talk about his composition.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Scene 1, The Dilemma
Gathering Forces
My Limbs Fail
Oh Krishna
Scene 2, The Answer
My Head Turns
The Answer Part I
The Answer Part II
My Head Turns (reprise)
The Answer Part III
Scene 3, The Vision
I am the Beginning
The Vision
I am death
Four-armed form
Epilogue: I will fight
Postlude
Seth talks with the founders of the Chicago Composers Orchestra about their work and mission and upcoming U.S. premiere of Chen Yi’s viola concerto. All pieces conducted by Matthew Kaspar.
Brian Baxter: Roots Run Deep
Randall West: Elements for Orchestra
Chen Yi: Xian Shi (Concerto for Viola and Orchestra), Michael Hall, viola
Gabriela Lena Frank talks with Seth about her travels, music, professional life and the contemporary classical music field.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Toyos and Tarqueada from Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, Chiara String Quartet
Jungle Jaunt from Latin American Dances, Utah Symphony Orchestra/Keith Lockhart
Harawi Para Colquipocro fr. Ritmos Anchinos, Silk Road Ensemble
Quijotadas for string quartet, II- Seguidilla para la Mancha, ALIAS Ensemble
Adagio para Amantani, ALIAS Ensemble
Zapato de Chincha, Danza de los Diablos & Juegos fr. Hilos, ALIAS Ensemble
This week we dive into our mailbag to listen to some recent new music releases sent to Relevant Tones.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Sunbin Kim: Whirlwind, Palisades Virtuosi
James MacMillan: Seraph, I BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jason Wright Wingate: Symphony No. 2
Movement of the Vaulted Chambers
The Twittering Machine
Hermitage Orchestra de l’invisible/Wingateabout Jason Wright Wingate
Michael Nyman: Songs for Tony, I&IV sonic.art Saxophone Quartet
Ronald Roxbury: Crazy Jane, Crazy Jane Trio; Patrick Mason, David Starobin, Daniel Druckman
Richard Reed Parry: For Heart, Breath, and Orchestra
Kitchener Waterloo Symphony; Edwin Outwater, Conductor
John Cage: Five, Essential Music
Melinda Wagner: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, I, IV
New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Lorin Maazel, Conductor, Joseph Alessi, Trombone
The electric guitar and classical music may seem like strange bedfellows, but almost as soon as the instrument was invented, composers devised ways to take advantage of its sonic possibilities.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Bob Dylan: Maggie’s Farm
Charlie Christian: Solo Flight (excerpt)
Leonard Bernstein: Simple Song from Mass
Donald Erb: Trio for Violin, Electric Guitar and Cello (excerpt)
Morton Feldman: Straits of Magellan
George Crumb: La Guitarra from Songs, Dances and Refrains of Death
Elliott Sharp: Vicious Cycle for electric guitar, electric bass & percussion
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint, III
Steve Mackey: San Francisco
Mark Anthony Turnage: Shout from. Blood on the Floor
Daniel Lippel: Scaffold
Dutch composer Jacob TV joins us in the studio to talk about the upcoming premiere of his ambitious multi media opera The News.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Playlist
◦ Trailer to “The News” (1:40)
◦ Lipstick (9:38)
◦ Grab It! (1:39)
◦ Garden of Love (7:17)
◦ I was like WOW (excerpt) (4:00)
◦ Giant If & Corroto fr. The News (8:05)
All performances by members of Fulcrum Point
London-based DJ, composer and entrepreneur Gabriel Prokofiev talks with Seth about composing and performing for a 21st century audience, family legacies, and the use of sampling in classical music.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Concerto for Turntable and Orchestra (excerpts)
— Heritage Orchestra/Jules Buckley; DJ Yoda, turntable
Piano Book No. 1 (exceprts) — Génia, p.
Float Dance — Peter Gregson, vc.
Suite for Global Junk — Joby Burgess, percussion
String Quartet No. 2 (excerpts)
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