Nadia Sirota appears in the following:
Zoë Keating and Todd Reynolds: Live Web cast and Online Chat
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Lighting, Lighting, Lighting
Monday, February 21, 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?
Fireside with Gloria Cheng and the Calder Quartet
Sunday, February 20, 2011
This week, (Le) Poisson Rouge offers listeners an ultra-intimate concert featuring contemporary piano queen Gloria Cheng, and the Calder Quartet performing works by Messiaen, Saariaho, Stravinsky and Boulez.
Powerful vs. Powerless
Monday, February 14, 2011
Stravinsky famously said: "Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all." Q2's Nadia Sirota doesn't buy it: "It seems totally out of place given the way his music moves me."
Ecstatic Salad
Monday, February 07, 2011
There is so much Q2 on Q2 this week! Monday, Tuesday, and Friday on the show, we explore music that was written during composers’ salad days. We focus on the early works that catapulted some of our favorite composers into their careers. For some, these are voice-defining pieces, and for others, these works were composed in styles long discarded.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Sunday, February 06, 2011
We're Listening
Friday, February 04, 2011
No Cheaper Way to Travel
Monday, January 31, 2011
As numerous ads for sunny getaways in the subway temptingly imply, let's face it: there's no better time of year to get out of town than February. But if your wallet won't have it, here's a modest solution, let Q2 take you on a quick trip to some of New Music's hot spots around the world.
School Daze
Monday, January 24, 2011
For some reason, my brain functions exclusively on an academic calendar. This is perhaps due to my parents’ working in academia or to the nature of the concert season? However it came to pass, I truly look forward to the fall. It’s nearly September! It’s nearly time for this heat to finally break! It’s nearly time for new seasons and new rep and new festivals, and my Pavlovian response is to buy PENS.
Genre Fishing
Monday, January 17, 2011
Discussions of genre tend to cause bristling, bad moods and miscommunications. Genre identifiers are such ludicrously loaded terms that I tend to be shy even bringing them up (and I’m not, as they say, too terribly shy)! Yet here we are: a week devoted to composer/band leaders and those who tend to be not so category-specific.
music with video
Monday, January 10, 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.
The Best is Yet to Come
Monday, January 03, 2011
Whoa, it would appear that the future is literally now! Congrats, all, we're here. This Winter and Spring look unbelievably tempting for the local New Music enthusiast. There are Music festivals! The Ecstatic Music Festival & Tully Scope, to be specific. The Met is doing Nixon! There will be Wozzeck! The New York Phil is getting Hungary!
Bush via Bleckmann
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Kicking off the winter season of Cued Up on Q2, we're proud to honor Kate Bush by way of Theo Bleckmann. Bush -- an unrelenting experimentalist -- blew Madonna out of the water in the UK’s charts in 1985, forever changing the world's perception of a female solo artist. Always warming and delightfully eyebrow-raising, vocal wizard Theo Bleckmann interprets songs by the iconic British songstress in this week’s episode.
Best of Oh-Ten
Monday, December 27, 2010
What was your favorite Q2 moment of '10? Was it one of our live shows? A composer portrait? Did you discover any new favorites this past year? Let us know!
Bruce: The BOSS (of Piano)
Sunday, December 26, 2010
In this performance at (Le) Poisson Rouge, pianist Bruce Brubaker gives the New York premiere of a piece by Nico Muhly in addition to works by John Cage, Alvin Curran and Philip Glass.
Operation Opera
Monday, December 20, 2010
My Unsilent Night
Friday, December 17, 2010
Nadia Sirota reflects on Phil Kline's downtown boombox caroling parade, Unsilent Night. "Of all the holiday activities in which I have participated this is among my favorite," she writes.
Vox Box
Monday, December 13, 2010
This week Nadia Sirota explores the far corners of vocal music, from secular choral music to songs of lament.
Minimalist Match
Sunday, December 12, 2010
All That Glitters
Monday, December 06, 2010
This week, in celebration of some of the longest nights of the year, Q2 is exploring music about the stars, planets, celestial bodies and other glittery, wintry nighttime things.