Tue. 8 pm. ET -Contemporary Classics. This week is an interview with the co-founder of the acapella vocal group Roomful of Teeth, Brad Wells. He is also a talented composer and we talk about his work, his musical background and Roomful of Teeth. This will be followed by an hour of music featuring some of the performances we talked about during the interview including music by Luciano Berio, John Luther Adams. Paola Prestini and Merrill Garbus. This is a must listen to show. 01/08/2019
Tue. 8 pm. ET – Contemporary Classics this week is celebrating the music of composers who passed away this year including: Jóhann Jóhannsson Katherine Hoover Oliver Knussen Otomar Kvěch Juan Hidalgo Cordorniu Lászlo Melis Takehisa Kosugi, Renaud Gagneux, Milko Kelemen , Glenn Branca, George Walker, Colin Brumby and Glen Roven. 01/01/2019
Tue. 8 pm. ET – This week on Contemporary Classics is contemporary classical Christmas Music with Music by Benjamin Britten, Arnold Schoenberg, Olivier Messiaen, Gian Carol Menotti, and Gerald Finzi. 12/25/2018
Tue. 8 pm. ET – This week on Contemporary Classics with Dave Lake, is a show dedicated to the Canadian composer Jocelyn Morlock. Jocelyn is an absolutely delightful conversationalist as well as composer so you will really enjoy this show. Dave was able to sit down with her at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra offices in Vancouver BC, Canada during his visit to Vancouver – and also saw her at a couple of other events around Vancouver during his stay. 12/18/2018
Tue. 8 pm. This week Contemporary Classics features the Modulus Festival. This year’s modulus festival was from November 2-6 in Vancouver British Columbia Canada and featured several composers and 5 days of contemporary classical music including numerous Canadian and World premieres. I will be sharing some of the music that they performed along with music from a number of composers at the festival. 12/11/2018
Tue. 8 pm. This week on Contemporary Classics we are celebrating the contemporary classical music I heard in Vancouver during my visit there. soloists, small ensembles and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Ravel to Shostakovich, and from David Amran to a reinterpretation of Bach. 12/04/2018
Tue. 8 pm. Contemporary Classics this week is the second show focused on this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival which ended on Sunday November 25th. Tonight we feature music of Terry Riley, Christian Marclay, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Salvatore Sciarrino. 11/27/2018
Tue. 8 pm. This week on Contemporary Classics we are celebrating the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival which is taking place now in the small town of Huddersfield, England, Great Britain. We have an interview with Graham McKenzie, the Executive Director of the festival with many great stories about the festival. Think of the image of John Cage, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez having a pizza together in a Pizza Hut. and much more. 11/20/2018
Tue. 8 pm. This week on Contemporary Classics is a really interesting show featuring an interview with composer Mark Lackey from Birmingham AL. We will be talking about and playing his new album released this last week called Fairy Tale. In addition to the work Fairy Tale, he has remixes of each of the movements. 11/13/2018
Tue. 8 pm. This week on Contemporary Classics is contemporary concert music for solo piano. We will be featuring Luciano Berio’s Wasserklavier (No. 3 from his 6 Encores) , György Ligeti: Études pour Piano, George Crumb’s Macrokosmos #2, Toru Takemitsu Rain Tree Sketch II and John Cage Sonata #1 for prepared piano. 11/06/2018
