- Thanks for including the Penderecki Requiem in this amazing week of Polish music, Nadia & Q2. I discovered Utrenja: The Entombment of Christ when I was almost too young to handle it. These are some of the most ravishingly terrifying works I've ever heard. Just to read the score with a performance of Utrenja is unforgettable. A fantastic, special week, thoroughly enjoying it.
- Bravo to Jakub for these super surveys of Polish work, thoroughly intriguing. Thanks, Q2 Music -- how else could we know the Muzyka Nowa we've been missing?
- Here you go, Wade:
11:55 AM (Wednesday) : Silver Threads by Jacob Cooper / Mellissa Hughes, vocalist
Private Recording
length: 06:56
(On the Q2 site, get onto the Full Player at the top of the page, click Full Schedule and Playlists, lower left, and then be sure to click Q2 Music in the Schedules and Playlists area once it opens. That will give you the chance to go back and find something recent.)
- Love your idea, operaticwolverine -- and Q2Music has done some great focal weeks, such as one last year on Gavin Bryars and another on Nico Muhly. I'm totally in agreement that folks who need no introduction (like Herr Beethoven) also need very little awareness-raising. Especially when they're long deceased. I'd have been just fine without Beethoven Awareness Month. For me, a classical station doing Beethoven Awareness Month had all the thrill and surprise of the Pope coming out in favor of peace, you know? Q2 Music, however, did quite a deft job of dancing through Ludwig Month, hooking in living composers' work to some of that of Beethoven, looking for some LvB context on contemporary classical, etc.
We must remember that WQXR, Q2 Music's fine mother ship, remains a far more traditional-classical service than its audacious two-year-old offspring Q2 Music. So from time to time we just have to bow to Mom and watch as the older saints go marching in, remembering that we're lucky WQXR has created Q2. It might take some patience at times with the "old dead white guys," as I rather uncharitably call the greats of ages past -- their work hauls in much-needed donations for WQXR. What a friend we have in Tchaikovsky.
The longer Q2 Music flexes its youthful muscle -- and the longer we show up for it and support it -- the stronger it will get and the more WQXR will trust this fine child it's given us to generate its own keen focal points within "the fearless and relevant music we crave." :)
You're doing the right thing. Turn up. Listen. Drop comments. Tweet madly. Tell your friends. Alert the fanboys and girls. Grow the base. Go forth and multiply.
-p.
- Hey to you, too, Richard. (Happy Q2-New Year!)
SteveS, who is bad-mouthing the process? I'll ask them to step outside. Looks like people have enjoyed it to me, and rightly so. Great stuff.
Do you mean over on the WQXR Countdown for Older Folks? Sorry, I mean for Lovers of Older Music? Different gig.
This is the Mighty Q2 Music, WQXR's best service, listened to only by extremely handsome and accomplished people with very low body fat and highly promising futures. The only better-looking people than the Q2 listeners are the staff and composers.
It's the fearless and relevant music you crave, dude. 24/7. Free. Crank it.
- WW from NJ: Here are playlists: http://ow.ly/8f6kt
And to find them yourself in the future, hit the "Full Player" button at the top right of any page, then look at the bottom-left side of the full player for a link to "Full Schedule and Playlists." Once there, choose Q2 Music again. You'll find current and previous playlists.
Yes, just before the New Music Countdown started yesterday, you heard Daniel Bjarnason's "all sounds to silence come." That was the Isafold Chamber Orchestra, Bjarnason conducting. Are you a fan of Daniel's work? Reykjavic has just nominated him again as the Icelandic Music Awards' Composer of the Year -- and his piece "Birting" ("Emerging") is nominated Composition of the Year. Here's a bit about that at his label, Bedroom Community: http://ow.ly/8f6k5 And don't miss a free download of Reyja from his and Ben Frost's SÓLARIS, just went into Olivia Giovetti's review of the CD on this page: http://ow.ly/8f6qU
Just so you know, the normal run-of-net playlist here at Q2 is not announced. During the Countdown, we're having the luxury of Nadia Sirota's fabled alto augmenting the visual playlist. Normally, you use the playlist, except during hosted shows. Nadia's own show is the flagship, heard noon to 4p Eastern, Monday through Friday. Her commentary is a major element of Q2's programming, as is Olivia Giovetti's in the Friday 1p show, "The New Canon." We've had some great guest hosts lately on "Hammered!" (11aET M-F), such as composer Timo Andres.
Couldn't agree with you more about the genius of Q2 Music. And most of the time, its programming is much more recent than some of the pieces you're hearing now. This countdown chased us all the way back through the 20th century. In normal running mode, the emphasis is on living composers. Couldn't be better.
They've kept me listening for the two years they've been up and running. Hope you'll stick with Q2 Music, as well. The fearless and relevant music you crave.
:)
Cheers,
Porter
- I'm sorry to say I think I have to agree with you, bassangel. (The treatment of the 7th I'm hearing right now makes me remember, unhappily, Ferrante and Teicher. borders at times perilously on something
And, yet again, no discoverable playlist for Terrance McKnight's show. We never seem to get an answer as to why this one show in the rotation seems not to supply a playlist. For a while, it could be found on Terrance's show page. But that stopped months ago. And it's peculiar that it's not integrated, as are every other host's selections, into the Mighty Q2 Music's superb playlist. This is a weekly frustration and one that seems to have our friends at WQXR and Q2 stymied, alas.
- Got your shout-out, Richard, and thanks! Are you loving the Birthday Q2's redesigned site as much as I am? Looks great, sounds greater. Agree with you on the graphics, sweet stuff. The Mighty Q2 rolls on!
- If you've ever wondered about the lasting value of Q2's superb creation, streaming, and archiving of live performances, ask yourself where else you're going to be hearing "Loops for Ancient Giant Nude Hairy Warriors Racing Down the Slopes of Battle." -- mention this in your Q2 survey, will you?
You take the survey right here: http://www.wqxr.org/articles/q2-music/2011/jul/14/your-ideal-new-music-station/
- If you've ever wondered about the lasting value of Q2's superb creation, streaming, and archiving of live performances, ask yourself where else you're going to be hearing Terry Riley's "Loops for Ancient Giant Nude Hairy Warriors Racing Down the Slopes of Battle" in a live performance at LPR.
I recommend you mention this amazing service (live performance capture and stream) in your Q2 Survey.
And you take the survey right here: http://www.wqxr.org/articles/q2-music/2011/jul/14/your-ideal-new-music-station/
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