Tue. 8 pm – On Contemporary Classics Dave Lake will be featuring his interview with Canadian percussionist Ben Reimer whom he met at the Winnipeg New Music Festival and again at the Modulus Festival in 2019. 12/31/2019.
On Christmas Eve from 8-10pm, Contemporary Classics will be doing a Christmas show featuring Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors”, Poulenc’s “Four Motets for Christmas” and Crumb’s “Little Suite for Christmas AD 1979”. 12/24/2019.
On Tuesday on Contemporary Classics from 8-10pm, I have a conversation with composer Rain Worthington. I met with her at her home in Nausau, New York to talk about her music and her life in music. 12/17/2019.
Tue. 8 pm – On Contemporary Classics from 8-10pm, I am again joined by composer Martin Gendelman. On this episode we will be talking about and playing the music of Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös. We will link his music to other Hungarian composers such as György Ligeti and György Kurtág. 12/10/2019.
Tue. 8 pm EDT- on Contemporary Classics is my show featuring a conversation with and the music of New York City composer Debra Kaye followed by music by other New York City composers including Du Yun, Harry Stafylakis, Jeremy Gill and David Lang. 12/03/2019.
This Tuesday on Contemporary Classics from 8-20 pm I have a conversation with composer Jeffrey Brooks about his recently released album “The Passion” on Cantaloupe Records. 11/26/2019.
Tuesday night on Contemporary Classics from 8-10 pm ET is my conversation with composer Benjamin Warsaw about his work Microcosms which is a book of piano pieces for the developing pianist. We will be playing the whole book of works and pictures from the work will be on the WRUU Contemporary Classics Facebook Page. 11/19/2019.
Tue. 8 pm EDT-On Tuesday’s (11/12) Contemporary Classics from 8-9pm I have an interview with and we play the music of composer and flutist Nicole Chamberlain. Raised in Savannah but not living in Atlanta, Nicole Chamberlain will be back in town on Saturday, November 23rd for the Savannah Area Flute Association’s Flute Day and to celebrate that we are having Nicole on the show to talk about extended flute techniques and her compositions. 11/12/2019.
This Tuesday (11/5/19) on Contemporary Classics from 8-10 pm EST is my conversation with composer Anna Clyne whose work “Masquerade” will lead off the November 16th concert of the Savannah Philharmonic and whose work “Sound and Fury” on November 7th will be premiered by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 11/05/2019.
This Tuesday (10/29) on Contemporary Classics from 8-11pm we are celebrating the Modulus Festival in Vancouver BC which begins tonight and runs through November 3rd. The show feature interviews with and music of composers Sabrina Schroeder and Nancy Tam and cellist Peggy Lee, all of whom will be at the Modulus Festival. 10/29/2019
