Tue. 8 pm EDT- This Tuesday on Contemporary Classics is my interview with composer Martin Gendelman. During the interview we talked about the tribute album to Alberto Ginastera and about Gendelman’s work based upon Ginastera’s 12 Preludios americanos. So we will wrap up the show with these preludes. 08/20/2019
Tue. 9 pm. EDT-on WRUU Contemporary Classicsis the first of two episodes celebrating the Tanglewood Festival at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA from August 8-12. 08/06/2019
Tuesday (July 30th) from 8-10pm EDT Contemporary Classics will be featuring an interview with composer Annie Gosfield about her life, work and upcoming Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend (August 2-4) in North Adams MA. 07/30/2019
On Tuesday July 23rdon Contemporary Classics at 8-10 pm EDT is the second episode featuring contemporary classical music from this year’s Spoleto Festival with music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Steve Reich, Francis Poulenc, Julius Eastman and Erwin Schulhoff
Tue. 8 pm EDT- On Contemporary Classics, I am celebrating the 2019 Bang on a Can Summer Festival featuring works and composers, including Julius Eastman, Annie Gosfield, Julia Wolfe and Brian Eno along with several young composers who are part of the composer fellows including Dai Wei, Sophia Jani and Phong Tran.
Tue. 8 pm ET- Contemporary Classics features a composer conversation with Scottish composer and harpist Ailie Robertson talking about both her compositions as well as performances with the various international groups of musicians with whom she works. 07/09/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET- on Contemporary Classics we have the first of three shows celebrating contemporary classical music that I heard at the Spoleto USA festival in Charleston this past month. 07/02/2019
Tue. 8 pm. ET- What do Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse, Jan Sibelius, John Cage and the Beatles have in common? To find out you have to listen to the Contemporary Classics celebration of Global Beatles Day on Tuesday, June 25thfrom 8-10 pm EDT. 06/25/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET- On Contemporary Classics we are featuring the new release by composer John Luther Adams called “Become Desert” on Cantaloupe Records, that was just release on Friday June 14th. We will also have “Beyond River” and “Beyond Ocean” to complete the Beyond trilogy of works. 06/18/2019
