Tue. 8 pm. Second show on Paris in the 1920s. We will be featuring music written in Paris during the 1920s. This is the second episode also featuring music from ballet dance companies being active during that time. Music from Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Henri Sauguet and Francis Poulenc. 09/11/2018
Contemporary Classics on Tuesday night will be devoted to the music of George Walker who died this past week. He was the first black composer to receive the Pulitzer Prize for music with his work “Lilacs”. 09/04/2018
Tue. 8 pm. This week on Contemporary Classics is my interview with composer Joel Davis who works at Samford University in Birmingham Alabama. We will be focusing on his work String Quartet #1 “Vespers”. In addition we will be having music by composers who were part of his training Peter Boyer and Edward David Zeliff. It will be a very interesting and. enjoyable show (if I do say myself). 08/28/2018
Tue. 8 pm. This coming Tuesday on Contemporary Classics I will be doing a follow-up to the show I did on Brian Renner’s Beyond the Liner Notes with a show entitled Paris in the 1920s, and….08/21/2018
Tuesday 8pm, on Contemporary Classics we will do a second week celebrating the recent Bang on a Can Festival at MassMOCA in North Adams Massachusetts. 08/14/2018
Coming up on Contemporary Classics on Tuesday is a show focusing on my 3 weeks at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMOCA) in North Adams MA.08/07/2018
Tue. 8 pm. On Contemporary Classics this week is highlighting the music for the solo piano. This weeks show will focus on two works “Ludus Tonalis” by Paul Hindemith and “The Seasons” by John Cage. 07/31/2018
This weeks show will feature music of a lot of composers you have probably not heard before including Pers Norgard, Niccolo Castglioni, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Harvey and many others. Contemporary Classics is on Tuesdays from 8-10pm on WRUU 107.5 FM in Savannah and wruu.org everywhere else. 07/24/2018
Contemporary Classics this week is highlighting the music being heard at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival from July 26-30th. 07/17/2018
