Tue. 8 pm ET-This week on Contemporary Classics we are beginning our two show celebration of the Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville TN. Big Ears yearly features the best in contemporary classical music. We will be featuring the WOMAN artists and composers who are being featured at the Big Ears Festival because – yes its is Women’s History Month and all composers or performers on works this month will be women. 03/19/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET-This week on Contemporary Classics is the second of the month long celebration of women in contemporary classical music as part of Women’s History Month. This week we have a conversation with and explore the music of Canadian composer now living in California, Vivian Fung. We explore a variety of different aspects of her compositions with her Clarinet Quintet and percussion/electronic work “The Ice is Talking” discussed during the interview and her Glimpses for solo piano, Piano Concerto, “Dreamscapes” and three miniatures for clarinet and string quartet. 03/12/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET – This month on Contemporary Classics we are celebrating Women’s History Month with a month-long celebration of Women in Contemporary Classical music. This Tuesday we’ll have an interview with Carrie Frey violist of the string trio Chartreuse and Adrianne Munden-Dixon violinist with the Philharmonic. They will be in town for two concerts. Chartreuse will be performing at the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall on the Statesboro campus of Georgia Southern University onTue. Mar.12th at 7:30 pm. Adrianne Munden-Dixon will be joining Chartreuse to play Irish music for or arranged for string quartet as part of the Live Oaks Concert series Sun. Mar.10th at the St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Thunderbolt. 03/5/2019
Tue. 8 pm. ET – Contemporary Classics will be highlighting the Centennial of the Grand Canyon as a National Park. We will be featuring music about the Grand Canyon and other national parks in the southwestern United States. Beyond Ferde Grofe, we will be including the music of Nico Muhly, Michael Daugherty and Stephen Lias. 02/26/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET- Youngest Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw, live on WRUU studio talking about her winning composition “Partita for 8 Voices” with Dave Lake on Contemporary Classics, 02/19/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET – Contemporary Classics this week will be a celebration of the music mentioned in the book “Orfeo” by Richard Powers. This book published in 2014 is the story of 70-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els, whose home experiments in biohacking musical patterns into a bacterial human pathogen have attracted the worried hazmat-suit-level attention of Homeland Security. 02/12/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET- This Tuesday on Contemporary Classics, I will be featuring an interview with Chicago composer Khyaam Haque who is releasing a new album this month. Along with the Composer’s Conversation, I will be featuring the music of Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm. 02/05/2019
Tue. 8 pm. ET Contemporary Classics this Tuesday is celebrating the Winnipeg New Music Festival with performances of works that will be presented at the 7-day festival. This will include Peteris Vasks’ “Symphony #2” and Dona Nobis Pacem; Caroline Shaw’s “Music in Common Time”, Missy Mazoli’s “Vesper Sparrow”, Michael Daugherty “Raise the Roof”, Brad Wells’ “Render”, Harry Stafylakis’ “Brittle Fracture”, and Judd Greenstein “AEIOU”. Contemporary Classics on Tuesday nights from 8-10 pm ET on WRUU – 107.5 Savannah and worldwide at WRUU.org .01/29/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET-This week on Contemporary Classics is the second week of music from my favorite contemporary art music albums of 2018. This week there will be a whole new set of albums including Suzanne Farrin’s “Dolce la morte”, the work “re:member” by Ólafur Arnalds, John Adams “Dr. Atomic Overture” from the new recording of the opera “Dr. Atomic” and Philip Glass’ “Symphony #11 among other works. 01/22/2019
Tue. 8 pm. ET This week on Contemporary Classics are selections from some of my favorite contemporary classical music albums of 2018. Included will be David Lang’s “Writing on Water”, a selection from the new album featuring Brooklyn Rider and Magos Herrera called “Dreamers”, “Aequilibria” from the International Contemporary Ensemble’s new album “Aequa” featuring the music of Anna Thorvaldsdottir, the new release of ………01/15/2019
