Nadia Sirota appears in the following:
Spotlight: Previn and Shostakovich
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Spotlight: Aaron Jay Kernis and Paul Moravec
Friday, May 06, 2011
On-Demand Audio: Jonny Greenwood's "Doghouse"
Friday, May 06, 2011
MATA Festival Webcast: Composer/Performers
Monday, May 02, 2011
Lighting, Lighting, Lighting
Monday, May 02, 2011
How do you take your coffee? What's your favorite time of day? What's your favorite part of the Chicken? What's your favorite part of the Tofurky? With whom do you identify in Star Wars?
The Economy on ICE
Friday, April 29, 2011
Business, OMG
Monday, April 18, 2011
Host Nadia Sirota writes: Mania-inducing it may be, but there's something super satisfying about being ridiculously busy. Yesterday, I flew back to New York City from a really lovely set of shows in the Twin Cities as part or their String Theory Festival, then almost immediately proceeded to a recording studio where my group yMusic began to get sounds for our debut record. Yay!
Composers-Who-Like-Other-Composers
Monday, April 11, 2011
Composing isn't always a solitary activity. This week, Nadia Sirota explores a variety of different composer collectives, including Bang On a Can, the NOW Ensemble, Sleeping Giant, Ears Open!, and Common Sense.
Kronos Quartet and the Young People's Chorus
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Chamber Music, Smoked Fish
Monday, April 04, 2011
To be quite frank, while I’m a fan of every smoked, oily fish, trout may be my favorite, though trout can be wonderful in a variety of additional contexts! Instead of smoked, how about evoked in an art song and morphed into a quintet for strings and piano by Schubert? That’s some delicious trout.
TV on the Internet
Monday, March 28, 2011
It's mid-January. It's cold. It's dark. There's no holiday in sight. We need to listen to some big, moving works to get the blood flowing again! There is no better way to combat the January blahs than exposure to massive, multimedia works. (Not an FDA approved treatment for SAD, don't sue me! This is more like a, um, suggestion.) This week, we're exploring what is surely an ill-advised theme for a radio show: music with a strong, visual component.
It's Alive!
Monday, March 21, 2011
My head is spinning, there have been so many amazing live events this season! I've been lucky enough to enjoy many of these nocturnal happenings and to be able to share many of them with you via the magic Internet. As such, this coming (Spring) season of Cued Up is going to be dynamite! We've got thirteen amazing performances, all recorded in and around our fair city.
Announcing Cued Up: Spring 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Zoë Keating and Todd Reynolds
Sunday, March 20, 2011
This week, Cued Up on Q2 presents a concert of tech-savvy classical intimacy with Zoë Keating and Todd Reynolds, along with an interview with the artists led by Radiolab's Jad Abumrad.
Vox Box Redux
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sacred, secular, set to poetry or neutral syllables, vocal music can be found in most every corner of the New Music world. The voice is perhaps the most flexible and expressive instrument out there; everything from oboes to guitars is compared to it. There is something instantly rousing and sort of, well, human about vocal music. It translates emotion in a very visceral way.
The Greene Space
Magyar Magic: A Preview of the New York Philharmonic's Hungarian Echoes Festival
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
7:00 PM
Q2 host Nadia Sirota will lead a conversation with Esa-Pekka Salonen, the renowned and innovative conductor who conceived the New York Philharmonic's "Hungarian Echoes" Festival, a showcase of this inventive music, opening on March 10.
New Music Fright Fest
Monday, March 07, 2011
I cannot over-represent how much I enjoy the holiday season. The months between Halloween and New Years contain the right weather, amazing performances and so much festivity! I like festvity. Ergo, this week, leading up to the big holiday kickoff that is Halloween, we'll be as festive as possible. Get ready for some S-C-A-R-Y music on Q2.
Shhh... Secret News
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Large-Scale Awesomeness
Monday, February 28, 2011
I am still reeling from the incredible spectacle and absurdly musically-satisfying event that was Inuksuit at the Armory last week. While many pieces written on this scale can be at best a fun gimmick, this was a moving, compositionally pristine work that happened to be absolutely massive. When I was excitedly recapping the event with a participating piccolo player, we found ourselves comparing Inuksuit to The Gates in Central Park: something that could well have been graceless and unwieldy that was executed so well as to be really, really wonderful.