Beginning on Wednesday, March 17, Q2 launches JacobTV on the Radio: a 5-day immersion into the life and music of JacobTV. The festival features a kaleidoscope of new private and European recordings, including: the recent premiere of Piano Concerto No.2, "Sky Falling," limited-time downloads of Grab it! and Jesus is Coming, complete introductions to over 20 of his most ground-breaking works, beautiful, provocative videos including a first draft preview of his video opera, The News and on-demand streaming audio of the March 11 New Sounds Live: Ethel Plays JacobTV.

JacobTV provides personalized introductions to many of his controversial and innovative works and in doing so offers a rare, exclusive insight into the creative process of one of today's most daring composers.  

Live Webcast of New Sounds Live from Merkin Concert Hall

Listen to on-demand streaming audio of the full Ethel Plays JacobTV -- the next in our ongoing series of live New Sounds Live webcasts on Q2. Hear the music of Dutch avant-pop composer Jacob Ter Veldhuis, aka JacobTV, performed by the Ethel string quartet, 24/7 at your convenience, as recorded live on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at Merkin Concert Hall.

What would a JacobTV festival be without, well, internet TV? Click ahead for more videos, but here's just a taste, from a first draft preview's of JacobTV's upcoming and self-proclaimed "never-ending" opera, The News. Videos are by Kristien Kerstens and this teaser is entitled Small Pop.

Starting Wednesday, March 17, grab a free download, offered exclusively for the duration of JacobTV on the Radio, of JacobTV's break-through and provocative work--Grab it!--sampling audio from the 1978 documentary Scared Straight!

JacobTV stopped by the WNYC studios back in April 2007 along with guitarist Kevin Gallagher and his avant-rock ensemble Electric Kompany. Listen to a live performance of excerpts from White Flag, a piece including audio from videos shot by soldiers during the Iraq war and samples from an interview between Fox News's Bill O'Rilley and then president George W. Bush.

In JacobTV’s pieces, you hear audio from too-good-to-be-true infomercials, political talk show hosts, doomsday preachers, confessions from fallen pop icons, violent Jerry Springer confrontations and other creatively distorted American pop culture iconography.

How does that make you feel?

Set your watches, it's time for the Kronos Quartet. At the top of every hour on Wednesday, March 10, Q2 celebrates the Kronos Quartet with a deep dive into their extraordinarily rich and diverse recorded output, as we gear up for their upcoming Carnegie Hall series, Perspectives: Kronos Quartet.

Valentin Silvestrov is in the spotlight starting Monday, February 22, as the next in Q2’s monthly series of Composer Introductions. Listen to a selection of his compositions.

Last night at 7:30 p.m., Q2 presented the first in a series of New Sounds Live webcasts with host John Schaefer. For this, the 23rd annual New Sounds Live concert series, New York's beloved Bang on a Can All-Stars performed four world premieres.

Whether you're atonal, bitonal, polytonal, or just tonally curious, you'll love Hope Springs Atonal. Join Nadia Sirota each weekday at 1PM (and 1AM) for a show devoted to the high octane world of post-tonal music.

To mark the 25th anniversary of her New York debut, virtuosic American pianist Sara Davis Buechner performed live on November 11 at Merkin Concert Hall.

When you hear the name Heitor Villa-Lobos, you may think of the colorful textures and dynamic rhythms of his native Brazil or his descriptive titles. This week on Q2, rediscover his 12 symphonies and 17 string quartets.

New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert and Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg are taking the Philharmonic somewhere it hasn't gone before with CONTACT!.

On December 6th at the Palace of the Arts (Budapest, Hungary), the Amadinda Percussion Group led by Zoltán Rácz gave the world premiere of Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet. The concert also included his Daniel Variations and Music for 18 Musicians featuring the UMZE Chamber Ensemble and Schola Cantorum Budapestiensis.

Reich @ 70

As major concert venues around the world prepared tributes to Steve Reich on his 70th birthday with performances of his works, Reich stopped by the WNYC studios to talk to John Schaefer about what he thinks has changed throughout his 40-year career. Also, a discussion about his relationship to Daniel Pearl's family and what he learned while composing Daniel Variations.

Tune in Monday, December 14th for a day of Maximum Reich devoted to the wealth of live performances recorded by Q2 and WQXR sister station, WNYC.

Recently, Steve Reich came by the WQXR studios to talk about the recent phenomenon of classical trained musicians leading dual lives as rock stars and the birth of a new type of organic crossover music.

Q2, WQXR’s vibrant new 24/7 music stream dedicated to contemporary classical music, kicks off its first full festival, Maximum Reich: A Celebration of Steve Reich on Thursday, December 10th. Click ahead to read more about this weeklong immersion into the world of one of the most game-changing composers of the last 50 years.

Steve Reich embodies all that is New York. His sound is local, but globally relevant; diverse but stylistically coherent.