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
Tue. 8 pm ET- This week on Contemporary Classics (May 28, 2019) I am featuring a “Composer Conversation” with Bunny Beck, a New York City based composer. We will also be talking in depth about two of her works “Fantasy for Saxophones” and “Suite for Sarro”. Later in the show we will feature music by other New York City composers including Ed Windels, Harry Stafylakis, Debra Kaye and David Mecionis. Contemporary Classics is from 8-10 on Tuesday nights on WRUU-LP, Savannah, 107.5 FM and streaming at wruu.org. 05/28/2019
Tue. 8 pm ET- This Tuesday evening from 8-10 pm is Contemporary Classics featuring a composer conversation with composer Paul Wianko, who is the composer in residence at the Spoleto Festival. We will be talking about his development as a musician and composer and in detail about his second string quartet – “Lift”. Contemporary Classics is Tuesday evenings from 8-10 pm on WRUU 107.5 FM and streaming on WRUU.ORG
