Match Girl Passion

Monday, June 29, 2009

New York-based composer David Lang wrote The Little Match Girl Passion based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story about a little girl who freezes to death while selling matches on the street. He pulled elements of the story and intertwined them with Bach’s St. Matthew Passion to form a piece that went on to win the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music. We hear the world premiere recording as part of Evening Music’s Choral Fixation series at 10pm. Also, music from Tison Street, Roy Harris, and Richard Wagner.

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Sondheim's Sweeney Sensation

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Tonight we wrap up Evening Music’s Homophony Festival. Stephen Sondheim, know for scores such as Sweeney Todd, Company and A Little Night Music, has won countless awards for his compositions and lyrics, including seven Tony Awards (more than any other composer). He studied under well known playwright Oscar Hammerstein II, who, upon reviewing Sondheim’s first musical, By George, told him it was the worst thing he had ever seen. Tonight we hear his Sunday Song Set, Barcelona and The Ladies who Lunch. Also music from John Corigliano and Samuel Barber.

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Homophonic Saturday

Saturday, June 27, 2009

As we continue our Homophony Festival host David Garland explores issues of sexuality in the lives of some of our prominent American composers, including selections from from Billy Strayhorn, Lou Harrison, Cole Porter and the complete orchestral suite from Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid. Also, the next installment of Concerts from the Frick Collection with special guest host Helga Davis and the Kuss Quartet at 9:30pm.

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Pauline Oliveros

Friday, June 26, 2009

Composer, accordionist and founder of Deep Listening Institute, Pauline Oliveros, joins David Garland in the studio to discuss her life as a musician, the sounds of her childhood, growing up as a teenager in 1940s Houston, Texas. We'll hear how her identity as a lesbian composer has evolved over the decades, as we continue our Homophony Festival. We'll hear her complete piece, The Beauty of Sorrow, from the album Tara's Room: Two Meditations on Transition and Change. Also included will be music by Billy Strayhorn, Ned Rorem and Francis Poulenc.

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Homophony Kickoff!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Special guests, composer Nico Muhly and music critics Alex Ross and Ann Powers join WNYC Overnight Music host Nadia Sirota for the kickoff to Evening Music's Homophonic Festival. Early in the show, Nico Muhly explores coded homosexuality in music, and later on in the evening, New Yorker music critic Alex Ross and LA Times pop music critic Ann Powers discuss homosexuality in classical and pop music. Nadia features a broad, multi-century selection of music by gay and lesbian composers, including Jennifer Higdon, Franz Schubert, Pauline Oliveros, Aaron Copland and many more.

Also Featured Tonight:

Nico Muhly / A Hudson Cycle
John Corigliano / Symphony No. 1: Apologue
Benjamin Britten / Canticles: Abraham and Isaac
Lou Harrison / Concerto in Slendro
Leonard Bernstein / Mass: Secret Songs

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Toledo's Blind Pianist

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Art Tatum, born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, learned to play the piano by ear, developing a very fast playing style while maintaining accuracy. It did not take long for his talent to gain national attention, as notables including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong made certain they heard him play while they were in Toledo. Tatum was well advanced in jazz piano, playing styles that would be heard nearly a decade later in the bebop era. Tonight we hear his Yesterdays. Also, music from Frederico Garcia Lorca, Steve Reich and Valentin Silvestrov.

Also Featured Tonight:

David Lang / For Love Is Strong
J.S. Bach and Uri Caine / The Nobody Knows Variation
Dave Samuels and David Friedman / A Night in Tunisia
Thelonious Monk / Misterioso
Zakir Hussain / You And Me

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Brubeck On The Brink

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

David Brubeck never intended to become a musician, but instead he planned to go to school to become a veterinarian and work with his father on their ranch. After the head of zoology at his college told him his mind was at the conservatory across the way and to stop wasting their time, he began going to school for music, though he was nearly expelled after his teachers discovered that he could not read music. Were it not for his wandering mind, we might not have been able to share the piece Recuerdo that we’ll hear tonight. Also, music from Lou Harrison, Leonard Bernstein and Gabriel Faure.

Also Featured Tonight:

David Bernard Roumain / The La La Song
Thelonious Monk / Willow Weep for Me
Gavin Bryars / The Archangel Trip
Sebastian Currier / Quiet Time
Ned Rorem / A Quiet Afternoon

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The Viking of 6th Ave

Monday, June 22, 2009

Blind composer, musician, poet and inventor Louis “Moondog” Hardin lived on the Manhattan streets for about twenty years. He was easily recognized by the handmade Viking helmet and cloak he wore while occupying Sixth Ave and 54th St. He composed a wide range of styles including avant-garde jazz, neo-Baroque, minimalism and percussive esoterica. He even made his own instrument – a triangle meets drum and cymbal combo, the trimba. Tonight we hear his Symphonique #3 (Ode to Venus). Also music from Arvo Part, J.S. Bach and Evan Ziporyn

Also Featured Tonight:

Bobby McFerrin / Mass
Astor Piazzolla / Flora's Game
Andre Previn / "I can smell the sea air"
Dino Saluzzi / Miserere
Terry Riley / Zen of Water

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Piazzolla's Near Demise

Sunday, June 21, 2009

At the age of 13, Astor Piazzolla was offered a chance to play bandoneon on tour with legendary tango figure, Carlos Gardel. His father decided to forbid his son to leave, which ended up saving the young musician’s life, as Gardel and his band's plane crashed while on tour. Piazzolla’s distinct twist on traditional tango incorporates jazz and classical elements and has evolved into its own genre: Nuevo Tango. Tonight we hear his Verano Porteno (Summer in Buenos Aires). Also music from Billie Holiday, Robert Erickson and George Gershwin.

Alexandre Tharaud

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Evening Music continues its summer series of concerts from the Frick Collection with special guest host Helga Davis. Tune in to hear Rameau and Chopin, performed by the French pianist, Alexandre Tharaud. WNYC brings you broadcasts of live recordings from the Frick every Saturday night at 9:30pm throughout the summer. The complete schedule of this summer series along with streaming audio of past and upcoming concerts is now online.

Also Featured Tonight:

John Cage / Suite for Toy Piano
Gilles Binchois / De plus en plus se renouvelle
Max Steiner: Four Wives / Symphonie Moderne
Dario Castello / Sonata No. 3

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Juneteenth

Friday, June 19, 2009

On this anniversary evening of Juneteenth, join David Garland for a special evening commemorating musically the abolition of slavery. We'll feature guitarist Robert Johnson who's been called “the most important blues singer that ever lived” and around whose talent many legends have grown, including that he even sold his soul to the devil. Tonight, we hear his From Four Until Late, originally recorded in 1937. Also, music from Alberto Ginastera, Kevin Volans and Arthur Foote.

Also Featured Tonight:

Vincenzo Ruffo / Three Caprici in Musica: excerpts
William Grant Still / "Folk Suite" No. 2
Daniel Bernard Roumain / The Need to Follow
Duke Pearson / Cristo Redentor

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Two Finnish Accordion Pieces

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Finnish accordionist Maria Kalaniemi has played folk music from childhood, leaving her classical training behind in favor of the studying new arrangements and composition techniques for folk music. As a result, she's become the face of "new Finnish folk," adapting playing styles and techniques for the genre to critical acclaim. Tonight, hear the aptly-titled Two Finnish Pieces, played with the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet. Also, music from Yungchen Lhamo and Dave Brubeck.

Also Featured Tonight:

Morten Lauridsen / O magnum mysterium
Dave Brubeck / Pick Up Sticks
Nicolas Gombert / Quam pulchra es
Philip Glass / Days and Nights in Rocinha
Brooks / Hard Driving Papa

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Hymn for the Lost and Living

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Originally commissioned for and performed by the wind band at Virginia's Langley Air Force Base, Eric Ewazen's Hymn for the Lost and the Living was written in response to the events of September 11, 2001. Tonight, hear Ewazen, Lebens, Eklund play a concerto arrangement of this work. Also, music from David Soldier and David Diamond.

Also Featured Tonight:

Alma Bazel Androzzo / If I Can Help Somebody
Philip Glass / Concerto for Saxophone Quartet
Arvo Part / Tribute to Caesar
David Diamond / Rounds for String Orchestra
Fred Lehrdal / Quiet Music

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When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

George Walker has a lot of firsts on his CV: he was the first black graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, the first black musician to solo with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and perhaps most importantly, the first black composer to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Music. That Pulitzer was for the work you'll hear tonight, Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra, consisting of four songs set to verses from Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd." Also, music from Dick Hyman, John Novacek, and Leonard Bernstein.

Also Featured Tonight:

Veljo Tormis / Estonian Lullaby
Sergie Rachmaninoff / "Lilacs", Op 21/5
Philip Glass / Closing
Arvo Part / Credo
Marcus Paus / Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

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Zoltan Kodaly

Monday, June 15, 2009

Hungarian Zoltan Kodaly is best remembered for his contributions to ethnomusicology (he was responsible for the preservation of a substantial amount of Hungarian folk music) and music education (his philosophies influenced the development of the Kodaly method, which is used even today to educate children). Tonight, hear his Cello Sonata, Op. 4. Also, music from James P. Johnson, Olivier Messiaen, and Gavin Bryars .

Also Featured Tonight:

Evan Ziporyn / Kebyar Maya
Philip Glass / Itaipu
Robert Kyr / Violin Concerto No. 1, "On the Nature of Love"
Mamadou Diabate / Soundiata
Veljo Tormis / Votic Wedding Songs

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Lamentations

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson arranged music for great pop artists such as Marvin Gaye, Harry Belafonte and Donald Byrd, but his first love was classical music. He cofounded the Symphony of the New World in New York and served as music director for both the American Theater Lab and the American Dance Theater, in addition to composing music of his own. Tonight, hear Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite for solo cello. Also, music by Cecile Schott, Paul Giger, and Miles Davis.

Also Featured Tonight:

Traditional Yemeni / Fi Tariq al Habb
Traditional / Levantose el Conde Nino
Traditional / I'm Tired
Henry Purcell / Two In One Upon A Ground
Derek Bermel / Quartet

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Music from the Frick Collection: Hugo Wolf Quartett

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Evening Music continues its summer series of concerts from the Frick Collection with special guest host Helga Davis. Tune in to hear Haydn, Schumann, and Webern, performed by the Vienna chamber music quartet, the Hugo Wolf Quartett. WNYC brings you broadcasts of live recordings from the Frick every Saturday night at 9:30pm throughout the summer. The complete schedule of this summer series along with streaming audio of past and upcoming concerts is now online.

Also Featured Tonight:

Frank Zappa / Put A Motor In Yourself
John Cage / And the Earth Shall Bear Again
Conlon Nancarrow / Volume Three: Study No.7

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Music About Water

Friday, June 12, 2009

The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet seem to be able to handle pretty much anything. They can be heard in film soundtracks (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain), found supporting pop artists ranging from Bjork and Nine Inch Nails to Nelly Furtado, and playing the works they've commissioned from artists all over the world. Tonight, hear their interpretation of Azerbaijani composer Said Rustamov's Getme, Getme (Don't Leave, Don't Leave), and later, their version of Serbian Aleksandra Vrebalov's ...hold me, neighbor, in this storm. Both appear on their most recent album, Floodplain, released last month. Also tonight, music by Alessandro Piccinini, James Blackshaw, and Mary Ellen Childs

Also Featured Tonight:

Johann Joseph Fux / Alma redemptoris, K. 187
Ram Narayan / Raga Mishra Bhairavi: Alap
William Ferris / Lyrica Sacra
Alexander Knaifel / O Heavenly King

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Glass's Facades

Thursday, June 11, 2009

The music of pioneering art musician Philip Glass is instantly recognizable for its minimalist, repetitive structures. Tonight, hear his best-known work: Facades. It was originally composed for a sequence within Godfrey Reggio's 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi featuring the buildings of Wall Street, but didn't make the final cut of the film. As a result, it wasn't released until almost ten years later, when it appeared on his album Glassworks. Also, music by Duke Ellington, William C. White, and Benjamin Britten.

Also Featured Tonight:

Arvo Part / "Spiegel im Spiegel" (Mirror in the Mirror)
Lou Harrison / Suite No. 2 for Strings
Bohuslav Martinu / Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola
Frederick Delius / "Appalachia"

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Kronos Quartet Does Worldbeat

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

When David Byrne and Paul Simon sought out the sounds of Brazil and South Africa for inspiration in the 1980s, some accused them of using world music as mere aural backdrops for their own egos. But when the Kronos Quartet recorded their 1992 album Pieces of Africa, a collection of pieces written by African composers and performed by the classical foursome, they avoided the cultural imperialism accusations and scored a hit. Tonight we hear a selection from this chart-topping album, Obo Addy’s composition “Our Beginning.” Also, music from Terry Riley and Steve Reich, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

Also Featured Tonight:

Alessandro Scarlatti / Cantata Pastorale
Karl Amadeus Hartmann / Burleske Musik
Johann Sebastian Bach / Pastorale in C minor
Valentin Silvestrov / Postludium for piano and orchestra
Takashi Yoshimatsu / Threnody to Toki Op 12

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Kubrick's Unearthly Soundtrack

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Modernist Gyorgy Ligeti may be most familiar to the general public for having his works prominently featured in the works of Stanley Kubrick. The novel uses of texture and polyphony in Ligeti's work fascinated Kubrick, who used his pieces in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Eyes Wide Shut. Tonight on Evening Music, hear Lux Aeterna, an a cappella choral piece played in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Also, music from Alan Hovhaness, Paul Schoenfield, and John Tavener.

Also Featured Tonight:

Aaron Copland / Danzon cubano
Philip Glass / The Light
Arthur Foote / Suite in E Major, Op. 63
Roberto Sierra / Missa Latina, "Pro Pace": Introitus

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Choral Fixation: Aaron Copland

Monday, June 08, 2009

Aaron Copland was a prolific and productive composer for all instruments except the human voice: he wrote fewer than a dozen choral works and only a few songs, some of which were never even published. Tonight as part of our weekly Choral Fixation series, we hear two of Copland's choral pieces: In the Beginning, an a cappella piece that uses the opening verses of Genesis, and the Canticle of Freedom, Copland's last vocal work. Also, music from Philip Glass, Thelonious Monk, and Gavin Bryars.

Music for Falling from Trees

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick is a busy man. He's a member of Portland indie bands Loch Lomond and Horse Feathers, tours with Danish band Efterklang, and has managed to release four solo albums in the last two years alone. What's more, all of those albums were written in different genres for different instruments- and he's only 21. Tonight, hear his new album for strings and piano, Music for Falling from Trees, in its entirety. Also, music from George Gershwin and Aaron Copland.

Also Featured Tonight:

Federico Mompou / Canciones y danzas No. 9 (Songs with Dances)
Benjamin Britten / Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33
Jocelyn Pook: The Merchant of Venice; trks 7,8,1,9,10,15-18,24,26; London/Decca 3804; DG's CD
Edward MacDowell / To a Wild Rose, Op. 51

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Concerts from the Frick Collection: Ensemble Caprice

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Evening Music kicks off its summer series of concerts from the Frick Collection with special guest host Helga Davis. Tune in for gypsy music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods performed by the innovative Ensemble Caprice. WNYC brings you broadcasts of live recordings from the Frick Saturday nights throughout the summer, during Evening Music with David Garland.

Also Featured Tonight:

James Blackshaw / Key
Frank Zappa / Put A Motor In Yourself
Ravi Shankar / Swara-Kakali
Ralph Vaughan Williams / Six Studies in English Folk Song

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Madame Mao's Foxtrot

Friday, June 05, 2009

American minimalist John Coolidge Adams courts controversy. His works cover topics ranging from Palestinian terrorist hijackings to the Oppenheimer project. As a result, he's been called anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-bourgeois. Musically, meanwhile, his compositions have been derided for being cliched as often as they've been praised. Tonight, we hear a piece called The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra). It's based on his opera Nixon in China. Also, music by David Baker, Art Tatum, and Arvo Part.

Also Featured Tonight:

Gil Evans / Saeta
Hughes de Courson: Vivaldi/Irish arrangement
Paul Creston / Partita for Flute, Violin, and Strings
David Baker / Boogie Down - Mvt. 1

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One of Spain's Greats

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Losing his sight at the age of three influenced Joaquín Rodrigo to pursue a life in music. This might almost be considered good luck: he achieved such popular and critical success that he became the first composer ever to be honored with Spain's greatest distinction, the Prince of Asturias Award. Rodrigo is best known for using Spanish classical guitar in his works, but tonight we hear 1954's Concierto serenata, a composition for orchestra and solo harp. Also, music by Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Django Reinhardt, and Earl Hines.

Also Featured Tonight:

Jean Sibelius / Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Matana Roberts / Blues in Stereo
John Cage / Jazz Study
Paola Prestini / Ordinary Hills
Bobby McFerrin / Circlesong Two

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A Special Collaboration

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

The idea of sitarist Ravi Shankar and downtown New York icon Philip Glass collaborating on an album might seem incongruous at first blush. The collaboration actually makes sense, though: Glass worked with Shankar early on in his career and acknowledges both Shankar and the rhythmic structures of Indian music as a major influence on his own minimalist work. Tonight, hear "Ragas in Minor Scale" from their 1990 collaboration Passages. Also, music from Thelonious Monk, Gabriel Faure, and Dino Saluzzi.

Also Featured Tonight:

Marc Mellits / Nine Miniatures
Mzilikazi Khumalo / Five African Songs
Phil Kline / Exquisite Corpses
Claude Debussy / Sonate Pour Violin et Piano

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In Honor of the Catholicos

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

In the 1930s, Alan Hovhaness burned all his work and started composing music again with a focus on the culture and music of Armenia, his ancestral home. In turn, the Armenian-American immigrant community provided assistance by ensuring that his recordings would be published on record labels MGM and Mercury. Tonight, we hear Symphony No. 21, an intermezzo from his 1946 opera Etchmiadzin commissioned in honor of the the chief bishop of the Armenian Apostolic church. Also, music from Zakir Hussain, Duke Ellington, and George Gershwin.

Also Featured Tonight:

Donald Hagar / Reminiscence
Hugo Wolf / Komm, O Tod, von Nacht umgeben
Phil Kline / Exquisite Corpses
R. Nathaniel Dett / Martha Complained

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On the Nature of Harmony

Monday, June 01, 2009

When he’s not composing symphonies, concerti or chamber works, Robert Kyr is a world peace activist. So it’s only natural that he should write music that brings together the music and instruments of diverse cultures. Tonight we hear his 1999 piece composed for violin, Balinese gamelan, and chamber orchestra, the aptly titled concerto “On the Nature of Harmony.” Also, music from Jaron Lanier and Aaron Copland.

Also Featured Tonight:

Thelonious Monk / Little Rootie Tootie
Alan Hovhaness / Four Motets
Duke Ellington / The Queen's Suite
Gavin Bryars / Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets
Aulis Sallinen / The Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote, Op. 58

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