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
Tue. 8 pm. This Tuesday on Contemporary Classics we feature foreign composers in Paris in the 1920s – specifically focusing on chamber music composed while in Paris or inspired by their time in Paris. 10/30/2018
Tue. 8 pm. Contemporary Classics is featuring music by composers who will have their music performed at the Birmingham Art Music Alliance’s New Music Festival in Birmingham Alabama from October 18-21. The Festival features compositions for electronic music, electronic music with instruments and pure instrumental music by both composers who are members of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and from the New York Composers Circle. 10/16/2018
Tue. 8 pm. This week on Contemporary Classics I continue to celebrate the music of Leonard Bernstein with my third show this year honoring the centenary of Bernstein’s birth. This week we have his Jeremiah, Symphony No. 1; Chichester Psalms for Chorus and Orchestra; Sonata for Clarinet and Piano; Missa brevis, Divertimento; La Bonne Cuisine (Four Recipes); and as many of the dance episodes from the Fancy Free Ballet that we can squeeze in. 10/02/2018
Tue. 8 pm. On Contemporary Classics, Dave Lake interviews British composer Oliver Leith and will be talking about two of his works “Dream Horse” and “Pushing My Thumb Through a Plate”. In addition we will have music by other British composers including Thomas Ades, Harrison Birtwistle and John Tavener. 09/18/2018
