Tag: Accordion
New Sounds
Accordion & Harmonium Dance Party
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
There's music for free reed aerophone instruments on this New Sounds program. Free what? Well, that’s just the nerdy way to reference a family of instruments that involves forcing air through reeds, like accordions and harmoniums. These appear in many different world music traditions, from the Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan in India, to the Argentinian bandoneon used in tango music to taraab music (wedding music) of Zanzibar (off of Tanzania.)
New Sounds
New Music from Finland
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
There’s music from Finland for this New Sounds, which is a musical hotbed of many genres: classical, folk, weirdly dressed heavy metal rock bands, and some of the less easily defined new music types. We’ll hear from accordion virtuoso Maria Kalaniemi along with something else for accordion (& electronics) by Kimmo Pohjonen.
Soundcheck ®
Accordions And Prison Music - a followup
Friday, March 23, 2012
More listener comments on recent Soundcheck shows
Soundcheck ®
Main Squeeze: Accordion History
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson once captioned a drawing: “Welcome to Hell. Here’s your accordion.” The squeezebox just can’t get any love – or so it seems. Ethnomusicologist Marion Jacobson joins us to talk about her new book, called “Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America,” which covers the instrument’s dramatic highs and lows throughout the 20th century. Plus, One Ring Zero co-founder Joshua Camp stops by to talk about his own experience as a frontman with an accordion.
WNYC News Blog
Niche Market | Accordions
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
New York is a city of specialists from foodies to academics, laborers to shopkeepers. Every Wednesday, Niche Market will take a peek inside a different specialty store and showcase the city's purists who have made an art out of selling one commodity.
New Sounds
New Music from Finland
Thursday, January 13, 2011
There’s music from Finland for this New Sounds, which is a musical hotbed of many genres: classical, folk, weirdly dressed heavy metal rock bands, and some of the less easily defined new music types. We’ll hear from accordion virtuoso Maria Kalaniemi along with something else for accordion (& electronics) by Kimmo Pohjonen. Plus, there’s also music by multi-instrumentalist Pekka Pohjola, who was best known as a bass player, of the jazz-inflected (maybe even proggy) variety. We might also hear music by Einojuhani Rautavaara, and perhaps even “Winter was Hard,” by composer Aulis Sallinen in a Kronos Quartet performance. All that, and more.
New Sounds
Accordion & Harmonium Dance Party
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
There's music for free reed aerophone instruments on this New Sounds program. Free what? Well, that’s just the nerdy way to reference a family of instruments that involves forcing air through reeds, like accordions and harmoniums. These appear in many different world music traditions, from the Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan in India, to the Argentinian bandoneon used in tango music to taraab music (wedding music) of Zanzibar (off of Tanzania.)
New Sounds
New Releases, July 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
It's the most wonderful time of the month! For this program, John Schaefer presents the pick of the piles. What we can see from here includes some Bosnian vocal music accompanied by accordion, Balkan brass band music originally from Macedonia, and Poland's Motion Trio (three accordions worth!) playing music by Michael Nyman.