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
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
