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.
Tue. 8 pm – On Contemporary Classics from 8-10pm, I am again joined by composer Martin Gendelman. On this episode we will be talking about and playing the music of Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös. We will link his music to other Hungarian composers such as György Ligeti and György Kurtág. 12/10/2019.
Tue. 8 pm EDT- on Contemporary Classics is my show featuring a conversation with and the music of New York City composer Debra Kaye followed by music by other New York City composers including Du Yun, Harry Stafylakis, Jeremy Gill and David Lang. 12/03/2019.
This Tuesday on Contemporary Classics from 8-20 pm I have a conversation with composer Jeffrey Brooks about his recently released album “The Passion” on Cantaloupe Records. 11/26/2019.
Tuesday night on Contemporary Classics from 8-10 pm ET is my conversation with composer Benjamin Warsaw about his work Microcosms which is a book of piano pieces for the developing pianist. We will be playing the whole book of works and pictures from the work will be on the WRUU Contemporary Classics Facebook Page. 11/19/2019.
