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Chilean Birdsong to Drone Aircraft: Bang on a Can All-Stars' 'More Field Recordings'
At times intense, unsettling and raw, the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ new release "More Field Recordings," is a shadowy sequel to their charming and equally substantial 2015 album. Nov 27, 2017
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Composer-Pianist Timo Andres
Composer-pianist Timo Andres is one of the more consistently-rising stars of New York's burgeoning new classical scene. He and Jennifer Koh discuss his "Winding Stair." Jun 14, 2017
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Agnes Obel: Independence Is a Quiet Space
Agnes Obel’s music is only getting weirder, and she’s delighted. Jun 13, 2017
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Multimedia Composer Zosha Di Castri
Zosha Di Castri is a composer-pianist currently on faculty at Columbia University. She joins Jennifer Koh to discuss sample-based composition in her Shared Madness piece. Jun 13, 2017
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Modern-Day Troubadour Gabriel Kahane
Gabriel Kahane is a composer who draws eclectically from opera, "pop" and concert music. He joins Jennifer Koh to discuss his Shared Madness piece 'the single art form is dead.' Jun 12, 2017
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Listen: Dover Quartet Performs 'Twin Peaks' Live at LPR
May 30, the Dover Quartet celebrated the relaunch of David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks' with new arrangements of Angelo Badalamenti's iconic music for the series. Jun 12, 2017
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's 'Clouds Forming Over Mount Baker'
Listen to synthesist and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previously unreleased "Clouds Forming Over Mount Baker," based on a photograph by Eliot Porter. Jun 12, 2017
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Meet the Composer and Alarm Will Sound's 'Splitting Adams'
Q2 Music podcast Meet the Composer joins forces with the chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound to present a first-of-its-kind podcast-album dissecting and presenting the music of John Adams. Jun 12, 2017
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'Breaking the Waves' Composer Missy Mazzoli
Missy Mazzoli is among the most visible composers of her generation. She joins Jennifer Koh to discuss the concept of virtuosity and the film that inspired her "Kinski Paganini." Jun 9, 2017
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Talea Ensemble's Anthony Cheung
Composer Anthony Cheung uses multiple voices and an alternate tuning of the strings for his work "Characters Studies" for violinist Jennifer Koh's Shared Madness series. Listen now. Jun 8, 2017
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Peter Sellars Hosts: Tyshawn Sorey's 'Josephine Baker' at the Ojai Music Festival
The final installment in our series of highlights from the 2016 Ojai Music Festival features Tyshawn Sorey's "Josephine Baker" performed by Julia Bullock, ICE and Sorey himself. Jun 8, 2017