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
This is part one and features Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D, Op.47 and Harry Partch’s “Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers’ Inscriptions”. Contemporary Classics is on Tuesday night from 8-10pm.