Tue. 8 pm – On Contemporary Classics welcomes back co-host Martin Gendelman and we will be doing a show on Latin American contemporary music composers. 2/18/2020.
Tue. 8 pm – On Tuesday night’s Contemporary Classics I have a conversation with a composer I met at the Winnipeg New Music Festival, Jared Miller. And we learned that he has been nominated for a Juno Award (Canadian Grammys) for best contemporary classical composition for a work we will be playing and talking about on the show “Under Sea, Above Sky”. 02/11/2020.
Tue. 8 pm – On Contemporary Classics from 8-10pm is the full interview I had with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider about her album “Penelope” which was featured last week at the Winnipeg New Music Festival in a performance by Shara Nova and a wonderful septet. 02/04/2020.
Tue. 8 pm – on Contemporary Classics from 8-10pm ET is my conversation with classical and jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Thomson. Ken is a fabulous performer and composer who has a lot of interesting things to say about jazz, contemporary classical music and being a composer in New York City.
Tue. 8 pm on Contemporary Classics to celebrate the Winnipeg New Music Festival beginning on Saturday January 25th in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada is my interview with 3 composers Jared Miller, Sarah Kirkland Snider and Tigran Hamasyan. 01/21/2020.
Tue. 8 pm – Contemporary Classics will be featuring facets of the wide range of contemporary classical vocal music with work for solo singers, ensembles and choirs featuring music by George Crumb, Luciano Bero, Tigran Hamasyan, Matiss Cudars, Jessica Meyer, Peter Maxwell Davies, Bryce Dessner, and Arvo Part. 01/14/2020.
Tue. 8 pm – On temporary Classics is celebrating 20th and 21st century music that is part of the 2019-2020 Season of the Savannah Philharmonic. Although some of these works were performed last Fall, there are still several works left to listen to in 2020. 01/07/2020.
Tue. 8 pm – On Contemporary Classics Dave Lake will be featuring his interview with Canadian percussionist Ben Reimer whom he met at the Winnipeg New Music Festival and again at the Modulus Festival in 2019. 12/31/2019.
On Christmas Eve from 8-10pm, Contemporary Classics will be doing a Christmas show featuring Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors”, Poulenc’s “Four Motets for Christmas” and Crumb’s “Little Suite for Christmas AD 1979”. 12/24/2019.
On Tuesday on Contemporary Classics from 8-10pm, I have a conversation with composer Rain Worthington. I met with her at her home in Nausau, New York to talk about her music and her life in music. 12/17/2019.
