Hosts Nick Morandi and Danny Hansen, from the Eastman School of Music Composition Department, curate, present, and discuss new music by 20th and 21st century composers, as well as music by ESM-affiliated composers.
Alumni Hosts: Diana Rosenblum, Aristéa Mellos, Alex Stephenson, Jake Bellissimo, Jasmine Thomasian
Hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristea Mellos, Diana Rosenblum, Nick Morandi
This week, two spatialized works by the American composer Henry Brant (1913-2008).
Works:
Ghosts & Gargoyles: Spatial Soliloquies
Performed by Robert Aitken and the New York Flute Club
Antiphony I
Performed by the New York Philharmonic
Spoken introduction by Leonard Bernstein
This week, our cohost Aristéa Mellos describes her annual festival on the island of Samos in Greece, the Ritsos Project, based on the work of poet Yannis Ritsos (pictured). We hear music by Eastman composers featured at the festival.
Hosts: Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Aristéa Mellos, Diana Rosenblum, Nick Morandi.
Bear Dance, by Daniel Pesca
Performers: The Ritsos Project Ensemble
I am sinking in a sea of copper ships, by Zach Sheets
Performers: The Ritsos Project Ensemble
This week, special guest composer and pianist Amy Williams! We talk about being a performer and composer/educator, as well as Amy's fascinating evening-length work, Cineshape.
Hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, Diana Rosenblum, Nick Morandi, with guest segment by Alex Stephenson
Cineshape 2 by Amy Williams
Performers: Amy Williams, piano; JACK Quartet
Richer Textures (in seven movements) by Amy Williams
Performers: JACK Quartet
Falling by Amy Williams
Performer: Amy Williams, piano
This week, special guest Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis! We talk to him about the state of music, his decade-long stewardship of the Minnesota Orchestra's Composers Institute and his new position as director of the Nashville Symphony's Composer Lab and Workshop, and writing for orchestra.
Hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Diana Rosenblum, and Nick Morandi
Colored Field - II: Pandora Dance by Aaron Jay Kernis
Performers: Truls Mork, cello; Minnesota Orchestra, cond. Eji Oue
This week, special guest Eastman composer and professor Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon!
Hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Aristéa Mellos, and Nick Morandi, with guest segment by Alex Stephenson
Sones de Tierra Fria - Day by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Performers: Tony Arnold, soprano, with the Eastman Broadband Ensemble, cond. Tim Weiss. Live recording from the SoundSCAPE Music Festival
Candelabra III by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Performers: Michael Fowler, piano, Stuart Gerber, percussion, and Camerata de las Américas, cond. José Luis Castillo
This week, the short chamber opera "Into the Little Hill," by George Benjamin. A wonderful work that contains some surprising connections to the modern state of classical music. With a bonus song cycle by Oliver Knussen to round out the hour.
Hosts: Alex Stephenson and Aristéa Mellos
"Into the Little Hill: a lyric tale in two parts" by George Benjamin
Performers: Anu Komsi, soprano; Hilary Summers, contralto; Ensemble Modern, cond. Franck Ollu
Libretto by Martin Crimp; based on the folk story of the Ratcatcher (Pied Piper) of Hamelin.
This week, music for winds, brass, and percussion--aka, the Wind Ensemble, from Eastman School of Music, the home of the first wind ensemble. Featuring the music of our guest, composer and Professor of Composition at Eastman, Robert Morris.
Hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Diana Rosenblum, Aristéa Mellos, Nick Morandi
Octet, mvt I: Sinfonia by Igor Stravinsky
Performers: Eastman Wind Ensemble, cond. Mark Davis Scatterday
De Staat (excerpt) by Louis Andriessen
Performers: Schoenberg Ensemble, cond. Reinbert de Leeuw
This week, the music of the French composer Henri Dutilleux, a unique and beautiful voice in twentieth century music.
Host: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
String quartet – Ainsi la nuit (“Thus the night”) by Henri Dutilleux @ 6:18
In seven movements played without pause:
I. Nocturne - Parenthèse I
II. Miroir d'espace - Parenthèse II (Mirror of space)
III. Litanies - Parenthèse III
IV. Litanies II - Parenthèse IV
V. Constellations
VI. Nocturne II
VII. Temps suspend (Suspended time)
Performers: Juilliard String Quartet
This week, music and the modern metropolis--music that deals in some way with the business and speed of twentieth century life.
Hosts: Diana Rosenblum and Nick Morandi
Concerto for Orchestra by Elliott Carter
In four movements played continuously - I: Allegro; II: Presto volando; III: Maestoso; IV: Allegro agitato
Performers: London Sinfonietta, cond. Oliver Knussen
Amériques (original version, 1921) by Edgard Varèse
Performers: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Christopher Lyndon-Gee
This week on Music Matters, the second week of our exploration of new music that interacts with the music of the past. Featuring music by Eastman graduate students Alex Stephenson and Daniel Pesca, as well as music by Eastman composition professor David Liptak.
Hosts: Nick Morandi, Diana Rosenblum, Alex Stephenson
O Clarissima, by Alex Stephenson
Performers: Waibun Chan, viola, and Dylan Perez, piano
Prism, mvt 2 by Jacob Druckman
Performers: New York Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta
