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A relatively new festival in a remote part of Catalonia featuring music by electro-acoustic composers, SIRGA has recently grown into an internation...
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The twentieth century saw an interesting movement as composers banded together in collectives to help promote each other’s work. The movement has o...
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In this edition of the Cannabis Radio News, we hear the latest from California, Oregon and a special report on the death of cannabis activist Larry...
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement?
Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...
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Much like the novel, people are always pronouncing the symphony to be a dead form. And yet, composers continue to write symphonies at an incredibl...
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Critic Kyle Gann says “Singleton's music is soulful, with an understated simplicity that I particularly prize. Despite the studied economy of his m...
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In recent years composers have become interested in the fact that the performers can do things on stage other than just play their instrument: stom...
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Stunningly versatile pianist Jenny Lin has recorded with jazz musicians, rockers, contemporary composers and everyone in between. Equally comforta...
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We’re having a ball trying to keep up with our ever-expanding musical collection as composers and performers around the world joyously overwhelm us...
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Legendary Brazilian guitar duo Sergio and Odair Assad have been performing and recording together for 50 years, reinventing guitar technique along ...
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From Stravinsky’s famous In Memoriam Dylan Thomas to Hindemith’s Trauermusik, composers have long written their most personal and moving music as a...
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Matthias Pintscher leads a concert of US premieres with members of the New York Philharmonic at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. All work...
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This week's Relevant Tones focuses on composers who have tried to step outside the box, redefine their definitions of music, and start over without...
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RT calls up our radio and podcasting friends around the world to find out what new music they think will dominating our airwaves and digital bit st...
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Relevant Tones partners with the Santa Fe Opera to feature a sneak preview of Jennifer Higdon’s soon-to-be-premiered first opera, Cold Mountain, ba...
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We invite some of our favorite musical friends to bring a new recording into the studio for listening, lively discussion and the joy of new discove...
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It gives technicians fits, but composers and performers are always experimenting with new “wrong” ways to play their instrument. From Bartok pizzi...
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One of the leading composers of our time and an ardent promoter of new music throughout the world, Augusta Read Thomas is an artistic force to be r...
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It's essentially just a conveniently placed grouping of popular percussion instruments and yet, the drum kit is often cited as the diving line betw...
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Ever since Ezra Pound's famous advice to young artists, "make it new!" there has been a relentless interest in breaking new ground in art and music...
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We know composers spend a lot of time alone wrestling with their sonic muse but, when they're not composing what are they listening to? What music...
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When Jon Stewart recently announced his plan to leave the Daily Show – the fake news show that has steadily become the go-to news-source for millio...
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When harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg asked Bach to write pieces for him to play to help a Saxon count get to sleep at night he could hardly...
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What is the full cost of our industrialized food system? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her intervie...
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Relevant Tones goes in the field to this hotbed of contemporary classical music, Seoul South Korea, to attend two major festivals of emerging and e...
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