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Meredith Monk — Archaeologist of the Human Voice
A kind of archeologist of the human voice, singer and composer Meredith Monk says that "the voice could be like the body" — flexible and fluid with practice. Through music as through meditation, the...
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[Unedited] Mohammed Fairouz with Krista Tippett
Mohammed Fairouz is a composer whose opera and symphonies have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center. His 11 albums include "Native Informant," "In The Shadow of No...
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Mohammed Fairouz — The World in Counterpoint
He’s been called a post-millennial Schubert. Mohammed Fairouz has composed four symphonies and an opera while still in his 20s. He invokes John F. Kennedy and Anwar Sadat, Seamus Heaney and Yehuda...
View ArticleMusic Lab
At Radiolab, we’re obsessed with music. In this episode, we embrace that obsession for it’s own sake. First, we showcase two musicians who have inspired our work. Then, the story of a woman preoccupied...
View ArticleJohn Luther Adams Transforms The Music Of The Streets
Place has always been an important, even formative part of John Luther Adams’ music. One of his earliest works, “Night Peace,” uses soft choral singing and gently rustling percussion to evoke a night...
View ArticleFive and a Half Things I Say on the First Day of Orchestration Class
Join Q2 Music on Sunday, April 24 (with an encore presentation Tuesday, April 26) for our second annual Symphomania, a 24-hour marathon stream of music that offers a vision of orchestral repertoire...
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A Deaf Composer Holds Out for Science
Note: This episode originally aired on November 3, 2015.Jay Alan Zimmerman discovered he was losing his hearing when he was in his early 20s, trying to make it as a musician on Broadway in New York. As...
View Article150th Anniversary of the Birth of Erik Satie
Tomorrow is the hundred fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the French composer Erik Satie. As WNYC's Sara Fishko tells us, Satie's music and thinking were more in tune with our time than with his...
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Leonard Bernstein in 1948 on Gershwin and the Israel Philharmonic
In a typical breathless whistle-stop visit, Leonard Bernstein drops by the studios of New York classical music station WQXR to promote his 1948 recording of Gershwin's An American in Paris, celebrating...
View ArticleThe Loser
A frustrated concert pianist is the subject of a new opera by David Lang. More from WNYC’s Sara Fishko, in this week's Fishko Files.The Loser premieres at the Next Wave Festival at BAM on Wednesday,...
View ArticleToday in Jonathan Schwartz History: Happy Birthday, Jerome Kern!
Today in Jonathan Schwartz History, Jonathan celebrates Jerome Kern!
View ArticleTerms of Art: Film Composer Lingo with Carter Burwell
Even if you don’t know Carter Burwell’s name, you probably love his music. He’s scored nearly all of the Coen Brothers' films, and has worked with Martin McDonagh, Todd Haynes, Charlie Kaufman, and...
View ArticleTwin Peek
This week, we head back to “Twin Peaks.” “Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley talks about the impact of David Lynch’s cult TV show. Plus, what it was like growing up where the show was filmed, and the...
View ArticleThe Music of "Twin Peaks"
It’s impossible to imagine “Twin Peaks” without the music of Angelo Badalamenti — but why do those languid synth ballads and cool-jazz numbers capture the essence of the show so well? “Breaking Bad”...
View ArticleElectronic Composer Jean-Jacques Perrey Hears the Future
The bouncy beat of a synthesizer-driven tune, Island in Space, provides the incongruous opening music for this 1968 installment of the usually staid series Music and the Message. The guest is...
View ArticleThe Sound of America
There are many Americas. Nowadays they barely speak to each other. But during the most perilous years of the last century, one young composer went in search of a sound that melded many of the nation's...
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Meredith Monk's Voice
A kind of archeologist of the human voice, singer and composer Meredith Monk says that "the voice could be like the body" — flexible and fluid with practice. Through music as through meditation, the...
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Mohammed Fairouz — The World in Counterpoint
He’s been called a post-millennial Schubert. Mohammed Fairouz has composed four symphonies and an opera while still in his 20s. He invokes John F. Kennedy and Anwar Sadat, Seamus Heaney and Yehuda...
View ArticleListen: World Premieres from Four Emerging Composers with the New Jersey...
From July 10-15, 2017, four young composers were awarded the opportunity to workshop new orchestral music with composer Steven Mackey, conductor JoAnn Falletta and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as...
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