Terrance-

Please announce that the 105.9 web stream is now and finally at 128kbit and stereo that the music and the listeners deserve.

In the pop/jazz idiom, three short pieces (about 3 minutes each) that segue well:
Harlem Nocturne, Georgie Auld recording / Stan Kenton: Opus in Pastels (It's a saxophone quartet, not the big band) / Night Train, Buddy Morrow recording. Classical or not, these are perfect pieces of music.

thank you Terrance for playing such great music! It is a pleasure to hear your selections, uplifts the spirit and soul
your choices are optomistic and just wonderful ..... thank you again,

The end of the Alpine Symphony. The mezzo movement of Mahler 3. Prologue, Act 2, Gotterdammerung. Norn Scene, Gotterdammerung. Transfigured Night (duh). End of Act 2, Schweigsame Frau of Strauss. Act 2, Tristan. Much else besides.

Terrance, am listening to Paul Creston's beautiful piece on WQXR. His book "Principles of Rhythm": for Creston rhythm was the underlying element in his compositions. He began with the rhythm, built harmonies as the next layer, and finally he "melodized the harmony," as he put it, composed the melody from the harmonic layer. How do I know this? I studied composition with him in one of my former lives. He used that book as his course text.

Got home from BAM (Philip Glass' astonishing "Kepler") in time to catch the end of your show Saturday night. "Round Midnight" was simply beautiful as was the lullaby which closed the evening. Wonderful programming, wonderful hosting, wonderful end of day...thanks, Terrence!

I go to sleep listening, hoping the music will find its way into my dreams - as it typically does. Thank you for being the score to my nights.

Your show is as good as that fellow who was on WCLK for years on saturday nights. Later he moved to WABE. Mad Props.

I'm listening to the Rachmaninoff All Night Vigil and I think I've heard some of this before in a version of Vespers he wrote.

Magnus Lindberg's Linea d'Ombra exemplifies what we need more of. It's superlative, and invites deeper investigation, more-searching listening. All of Erik Satie is music for standing at the night window and watching the city inter-be; seeing those joyous scholars at other writing desks, discovering the unbounded potential, then noticing that they too are looking up and smiling back at the little silhouette that is me, here, at experience's brink. Ciao, T

Greetings,

Just now listening to Susan Graham singing Les Nuits d'Ete. My favorite recording of this is with Regine Crespin, which, I've been told, is one of her best recordings.

Amazing piece by Richard Strauss on Death and Transfiguration last night. Thank you for telling the story behind it. It provided the perfect soundtrack as I drove home on Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn and contemplated my existence.

Terrence:
You and your program are terrific, but...it seems now that NYC has taken over the QXR website and made what was an extremely user-friendly site for those of us who listen in our cars and do not have the chance to hear entire pieces - and find out their identity - and turned it into the profoundly un-user-friendly NYC site.
For example, at around 8:30 tonight I was coming home and listened to what sounded a bit like a Phillip Glass piece - perhaps - so I went on the "new" WQXR site, which used to have a listing of what was played an hour ago, a day ago, a week ago. You could find out the information immediately, instead of searching in vain and never finding it on the NYC site. It is extremely frustrating, and annoying. If you have any clout perhaps you could interest them in providing a site which works - for us, particularly for your shows, since you thankfully offer a wide range of often unfamiliar material. It would be a HUGE move in the right direction. Thank you.

terrence -

we are so happy to see you have a new home. we worried that you moved without leaving a forwarding address.

my friend jim agrees.

btw- your enunciating is exquisite

The basic facts about a piece of music plus an amusing anecdote is all that's required; we do not need a disquisition or compositional analysis. Your introductions are so long that it's necessary to go on line to see what the hell you were talking about.

Please also review your vowels: bring is not brang. This is no place for quaint dialect.

Please allow off topic to echo the last point by James.
Tonight is your best WQXR night because it’s like what Evening Music had become the last year on WNYC, music all over new and old, known and unknown. I love “Classical” But three “Lark Ascending” offerings in three days. It was mirroring Top-40 radio. Hope you can duplicate tonight every night.

As an artist, I suppose "night music" for me has been associated with working alone in my studio after midnight, and hearing (on my computer or on the radio) a long, involved work like Bach's "St Matthew Passion," Mahler's "Lied Von Der Erde," or something by Morton Feldman. Somehow the complexity of the music merges with the focused intensity I'm putting into my work and my brain just feels alive, active, fully engaged in a way words cannot describe.

Also, the "Evening Music" programming has gotten a lot better. For about a week after the chageover it seemed like everything was on the "Four Seasons"/"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" level and I feared the worst. Fortunately that did not come to pass.