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- So, is Ms Rowell going to be a continuing host, or is this a one-off visit?
- I think it was Timo's piece at 3:18, I heard bits, riffs, from whom I cannot dredge up, maybe a Jazz pianist like Keith Jarrett, or a Blues piece, maybe even Leon Russell. If it bubbles up, I'll be back.
- I would love to hear some of these interviews, but, sorry, no iTunes. Any other way?
- Please visit
http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/interview_chung.html
to read an interview of the composer conducted for the American Mavericks radio project from Minnesota Public Radio. If you have RealPlayer, there is also an audio to which you can listen.
- 2:00PM - Sure sounded like someone had been listening to 'Trane.
- Jerome Rosinger from NJ Transit train heading to penn station. - Tell me how you got anything from 105.9 on your DROID. I have a DROID and I have listened to Q2, straight from the web site; but no "app". Is there now an "app" for WQXR?
- Years ago, listening to The Gorecki 3rd, I heard Upshaw with Zinman and the London Sinfonietta, I remember that I had been confused about the pronunciation of the composer's name. I wrote to David Garland. He mailed me the "ck" pronunciation page from a dictionary of Slavic pronunciations. That was real down home Public Radio at WNYC
- Leonard Bernstein might be New York City's greatest gift to music up until his end.
In Steve Rowland's radio project "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life", someone says that if he had just written "West Side Story" he would be a giant.
Alan Rich wrote of two Lenny's in "So I've Heard". In one chapter he was separately giving praise and criticism.
Lenny was overlooked in the "Minnesota Public Radio" project "American Mavericks". Kyle Gann never mentions him in the essays. But, typically, Lenny was seen at a Jazz club, crouched down by the drum kit. Someone said, hey, get that guy out of there. But a wiser soul said, leave him alone, that's Leonard Bernstein picking up licks. Wow!
Anyone can tell, I love Lenny.
If you can see the PBS video "Leonard Bernstein:Reaching For the Note", don't miss it.
- Ah, the Barber - I have it with Hilary Hahn!!
- Thanks for the listing, and, hey to Porter.
- Is there some reason that you cannot post the list in text form???
- I did a post for this programming at MusicSprings, http://musicsprings.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/from-q2-music-nowej-muzyka-an-overview/
And very quickly got a "pingback" from a Polish site,
http://www.sluchamy.waw.pl/from-q2-music-%E2%80%9Cnowej-muzyka-an-overview-%E2%80%9C-%C2%AB-musicsprings/.
So, wow! We are really getting out there.
- Sure would like to see reply notifications on these Comment pages, so we might see if anyone responded to our comments.
- I finally got to watch the whole video. This was a wonderful tribute, and John sort of laid bare, T-shirts and all. It was great to see some of the important people on the "New Music" scene in attendance, especially Steve Reich and the band ETHEL.
I did miss a couple of things and some people. I think when Dean was talking about the events of 2002, he might have mentioned the advent of wnyc2, the 24/7 internet stream erected by WNYC. With the movement of so much of what is important in music and performance to the internet, wnyc2 went a long way to assuage our loss of day time music at WNYC. After we lost day time music, I had joined KUSC, WCNY, and WCPE. One thing WNYC taught me was the value and importance of membership. With the growth of wnyc2, I pulled those member dollars back to WNYC. wnyc2 also focused on the newly emerging presence of "New Music", terrific if anyone asks me.
The speaker for the band ETHEL made a passing reference to Q2. Q2 grew out of wnyc2 when NYPR took over WQXR. He spoke of it as a "program", when in fact it is a full blown 24/7 "New Music" destination on the internet. While WNYC's broadcast music had begun to move toward the new, WQXR under NYPR remaind pretty traditional. So, again Q2 goes a long way. Also, we have seen the advent of long form music video, from ICE, presented at Q2. I hope that this expands. Q2 is really sort of New Sounds "in the fullness of time". Q2 is embracing every possible internet asset available, and this is great.
I thought missing from the celebration were several people. First, Q2's Nadia Sirota. She is brilliant and articulate. I cannot know her level of staff importance at NYPR, but, surely, she is the face and the voice of Q2.
I would have liked to see someone from Bang On A Can, Julia, David, Michael, Evan or Mark. Maybe they are in Sidney or Zagreb.
And last, Philip Glass. Maybe he and Steve Reich are not to be seen together; but, as much as I admire Steve Reich, I equally admire Philip Glass.
I will never forget at the 20th anniversary of New Sounds, celebrated on Soundcheck, the guys from Turtle Island called in and basically said, no New Sounds, no Turtle Island.
While New Sounds has lost none of its fervor for what is emerging, back in the eighties and into the nineties, New Sounds and John where in the white hot spotlight for the new stuff. Many composers and musicians, e.g. Osvaldo Golijov, really got their first big exposure in the big city on that gigantic program.
Thanks, again, for 30 great years.
- Thanks, John for the video review of a lot of my life. You have been my greatest teacher in music, after my own father.
>>RSM
- “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet,” by Gavin Bryars, is streamed reasonably often at Q2, the 24/7 New Music stream of New York Public Radio. You can find the stream at http://www.wqxr.org/q2.
You can stream from the web site's pop-up player or in your own player such as iTunes or Winamp.
The version most often featured at Q2 includes the work of Tom Waits in the vocal near the end of the piece. It is profound, eloquent.
Another piece with Christian content streamed reasonably often at Q2 is John Adams' "Christian Zeal and Activity", featuring a way way out probably Fundamentalist Elmer Gantry type preacher speaking on "The Man with the Withered Hand". This is an "awesome" piece.
- Missing all of the great Q2 art work.
- What happened to all of the great art work?
- Thanks for shungaku finding this and making a comment, at another blog,
http://innovativeperformanceandpedagogy.wordpress.com,
I just used the ICELab videos at Q2 as an example of what I would like to see as the next serious music paradigm, long form video at the price of a "ticket" via the internet.
- So, Sweetpea, just how many birthdays is that? I have had 70!! Think you will still be up for it by then? Alive? Yes!! Healthy? Mostly. But...
