Contemporary Classics

Tue. 9 pm. EDT-on WRUU Contemporary Classicsis the first of two episodes celebrating the Tanglewood Festival at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA from August 8-12. 08/06/2019

On this show you will get to hear...

Tuesday (July 30th) from 8-10pm EDT Contemporary Classics will be featuring an interview with composer Annie Gosfield about her life, work and upcoming Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend (August 2-4) in North Adams MA. 07/30/2019

 

On Tuesday July 23rdon Contemporary Classics at 8-10 pm EDT is the second episode featuring contemporary classical music from this year’s Spoleto Festival with music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Steve Reich, Francis Poulenc, Julius Eastman and Erwin Schulhoff

Tue. 8 pm EDT- On Contemporary Classics, I am celebrating the 2019 Bang on a Can Summer Festival featuring works and composers, including Julius Eastman, Annie Gosfield, Julia Wolfe and Brian Eno along with several young composers who are part of the composer fellows including Dai Wei, Sophia Jani and Phong Tran.

This Tuesday (July 16th) on Contemporary Classics from...

Tue. 8 pm ET- Contemporary Classics features a composer conversation with Scottish composer and harpist Ailie Robertson talking about both her compositions as well as performances with the various international groups of musicians with whom she works. 07/09/2019

Tue. 8 pm ET- on Contemporary Classics we have the first of three shows celebrating contemporary classical music that I heard at the Spoleto USA festival in Charleston this past month. 07/02/2019

This Tuesday (July 2) from 8-10 pm on...

Tue. 8 pm. ET- What do Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse, Jan Sibelius, John Cage and the Beatles have in common? To find out you have to listen to the Contemporary Classics celebration of Global Beatles Day on Tuesday, June 25thfrom 8-10 pm EDT. 06/25/2019

Tue. 8 pm ET- On Contemporary Classics we are featuring the new release by composer John Luther Adams called “Become Desert” on Cantaloupe Records, that was just release on Friday June 14th.  We will also have “Beyond River” and “Beyond Ocean” to complete the Beyond trilogy of works. 06/18/2019

This Tuesday night (6/18/19) on Contemporary Classics from...

Tue. 8 pm ET- On Contemporary Classics we have a Composer Conversation with Alex Weiser. 06/04/2019

This Tuesday (June 4) from 8-10pm EDT on...

Tue. 8 pm ET- This week on Contemporary Classics (May 28, 2019) I am featuring a “Composer Conversation” with Bunny Beck, a New York City based composer. We will also be talking in depth about two of her works “Fantasy for Saxophones” and “Suite for Sarro”. Later in the show we will feature music by other New York City composers including Ed Windels, Harry Stafylakis, Debra Kaye and David Mecionis. Contemporary Classics is from 8-10 on Tuesday nights on WRUU-LP, Savannah, 107.5 FM and streaming at wruu.org. 05/28/2019

This week on Contemporary Classics (May 28, 2019)...