Listen Now: Dan Deacon, NOW Ensemble and Calder Quartet

Dan Deacon and New Sounds Live host John Schaefer meeting and checking microphones before the performance from Merkin Concert Hall's Ecstatic Music Festival.
Dan Deacon and New Sounds Live host John Schaefer meeting and checking microphones before the performance from Merkin Concert Hall's Ecstatic Music Festival. (Kim Nowacki/WQXR)
Dan Deacon and John Schaefer before the performance.
Dan Deacon and John Schaefer before the performance. (Kim Nowacki/WQXR)
John Schaefer and Mark Dancigers before the performance of his piece 'Cloudbank.'
John Schaefer and Mark Dancigers before the performance of his piece 'Cloudbank.' (Kim Nowacki/WQXR)
Calder Quartet.
Calder Quartet. (David Andrako/courtesy of Merkin Concert Hall)
NOW Ensemble, Calder Quartet and Dan Deacon during the world premiere of Deacon's 'An Opal Toad with Obsidian Eyes.'
NOW Ensemble, Calder Quartet and Dan Deacon during the world premiere of Deacon's 'An Opal Toad with Obsidian Eyes.' (David Andrako/courtesy of Merkin Concert Hall)
NOW Ensemble, Calder Quartet and Dan Deacon during the world premiere of Deacon's 'An Opal Toad with Obsidian Eyes.'
NOW Ensemble, Calder Quartet and Dan Deacon during the world premiere of Deacon's 'An Opal Toad with Obsidian Eyes.' (David Andrako/courtesy of Merkin Concert Hall)
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