Alexander Overington appears in the following:
Caroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Caroline Shaw spent practically all her life studying & playing the violin. But then, two years after enrolling in grad school for composition, she won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Caroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully: I. Garden Variety
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Caroline Shaw took violin lessons all her life. But after college, she spent a year alone wandering around Europe on a Watson Fellowship and began following a slightly different path.
Caroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully: III. Teethful of Awesome
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Caroline talks about her influences while writing Partita for 8 Voices, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, and on her involvement with Roomful of Teeth.
Caroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully: II. Sacred and Profane
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Caroline Shaw spent practically all her life studying & playing the violin. But then, two years after enrolling in grad school for composition, she won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Free Download: 'The Hunger' from Composer Donnacha Dennehy
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy shares excerpts from his forthcoming opera, "The Hunger," based on writings about the Great Famine.
Donnacha Dennehy: II. Grisey, Andrissen and Gender Confusion
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Dennehy's attempt to study with French spectral composer Gérard Grisey didn't turn out as planned. Enter Dutch post-minimalist Louis Andriessen.
Donnacha Dennehy: Composing With Frequency
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
After a slightly weird start to his study with Gérard Grisey in Paris, Donnacha Denney moved to Amsterdam, where the composer Louis Andriessen changed his life forever.
Donnacha Dennehy: III. Irish Upon a Star
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Dennehy's music is beautifully influenced by the written word. Featured here are settings of W.B. Yeats poems, and his groundbreaking Grá agus Bás.
Donnacha Dennehy: I. "Mine is not the standard childhood"
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Donnacha Dennehy played the tin whistle in grade school and began composing sonatas. But upon turning ten years old, he met Karheinz Stockhausen—and everything changed.
Andrew Norman: Better Living Through Architecture
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Andrew Norman has followed a winding artistic path that nearly landed him in the architecture world. Lucky for us, he kept writing music.
John Luther Adams: Bad Decisions and Finding Home
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
The composer got kicked out of multiple high schools and moved to the edge of society in Alaska, yet somehow managed to win a 2014 Pulitzer Prize. Here's how he did it.
46 Different Recordings of The Rite of Spring in 3 Minutes
Monday, June 10, 2013
From 46 different recordings, Q2 Music presents the iconic “Augurs of Spring” performed by as many ensembles and soloists as could be squeezed into 3 minutes.
Distressed Surfaces and Layers of Recollection
Monday, October 08, 2012
This week on The New Canon, we hear new recordings of music by composers Morgan Hayes and Imogen Holst, as well a selection of world premiere recordings of works for solo cellist Anthony Arnone.
Barbara Monk Feldman and Eighth Blackbird
Monday, October 01, 2012
This week on The New Canon, we hear premiere recordings of works by Barbara Monk Feldman, as well as a new album by the Chicago-based Eighth Blackbird.
