Alex Ambrose appears in the following:
Kronos Quartet At 40: Songs We Love
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Most every Kronos Quartet fan who has followed the group through its four-decade career has a favorite Kronos moment. Mine is from around 1990 in El Paso, Texas, when a performance of Istvan Marta's powerfully evocative Doom. A Sigh caused me to hyperventilate right there in the theater. ...
Kronos at 40: 24-Hour Marathon Anniversary Stream
Monday, March 24, 2014
Video: Timo Andres's Shy and Mighty Bed-Stuy Apartment
Monday, March 17, 2014
Lutosławski 101 with Esa-Pekka Salonen
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Lutosławski at 100: VII. Last Thoughts
Monday, November 04, 2013
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100 – a seven-part series hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Part Seven explores his last thoughts.
Lutosławski at 100: VI. The Late Style
Monday, November 04, 2013
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100 – a seven-part series hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Part Six explores his late style.
Lutosławski at 100: V. Heroism and Dissent
Monday, November 04, 2013
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100 – a seven-part series hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Part Five explores heroism and dissent.
Lutosławski at 100: IV. Consolidating the Mature Style
Monday, November 04, 2013
Lutosławski at 100: III. Breakthrough to Modernism
Monday, November 04, 2013
Lutosławski at 100: II. The Postwar Period
Monday, November 04, 2013
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100 – a seven-part series hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Part Two explores the postwar period.
Lutosławski at 100: I. Early Works and World War II
Monday, November 04, 2013
On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Q2 Music presents Lutosławski at 100 – a seven-part series hosted by Nadia Sirota celebrating the centenary of Polish icon Witold Lutosławski. Part One explores early works and World War II.
Video: Music Boxes, Toys and Found Sounds with Angélica Negrón
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tristan Perich On Q2 Music's 'Spaces'
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
For the third installment of Q2 Spaces, we visited the home and work space of Tristan Perich — a New York-based sound, visual and installation artist whose music blends a composer's interest in acoustic classical instruments and electronic manipulation with an inventor's exploration into circuitry and computer ...
Video: Inside Tristan Perich's Home and 1-Bit Workshop
Monday, April 29, 2013
Michel van der Aa Wins 2013 Grawemeyer Award
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Dutch composer Michel van der Aa has won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. He is the second consecutive Dutch composer to win the $100,000 prize.
Interview: Original Music Workshop's Founder, Kevin Dolan
Monday, September 10, 2012
Listen: Alarm Will Sound Perform John Cage and Edgard Varèse
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Powerhouse Piano Concertos
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
For WQXR's Beethoven Awareness Month, Q2 Music gets back to its "500 Years of New-Music" roots and pays homage to the genre where the many strands of the composer's creative persona come into sharpest focus -- the piano concerto. Every night at 10 pm throughout November, Q2 Music streams back-to-back piano concertos, the first from the 19th century and behind the imposing shadow of Beethoven's own five masterworks and the second from today's active, international repertoire.
The Ambiguity of Excerpting
Monday, August 29, 2011
As we take all the generous musical suggestions you've provided and strive to channel them into a cohesive, fluid stream of music for the 9/11 weekend, we acknowledge a complicated, but inevitable, decision. We have an idea how to proceed; however, we want to hear your thoughts as to the most appropriate, respectful course of action.
Requiems Discovered
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
