Nadia Sirota

Nadia Sirota appears in the following:

Zoë Keating and Todd Reynolds: Live Web cast and Online Chat

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

On Sunday, March 6 at 7 p.m., EST, Q2 presents a live audio Web cast of experimental musician and technophile Zoë Keating in a sold-out concert from Greenwich Village's (Le) Poisson...

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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?

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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

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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."

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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.

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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Sunday, February 06, 2011

This week on Cued Up on Q2, we continue to celebrate the uncompromising vision of the late Milton Babbitt with a New York premiere of one of his most mesmerizing and compelling string...

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We're Listening

Friday, February 04, 2011

In this special show, Q2 explores the work of the composer Milton Babbitt, who passed away on Jan. 29 at age 94. Included are many longtime Babbitt colleagues, students and fellow co...
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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Operation Opera

Monday, December 20, 2010

This holiday week, we are going to delve deep into 20th and 21st century opera, listening to some wonderful, large-scale works. Highlights include Rautavaara's The House of the Sun,...

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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.

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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.

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Minimalist Match

Sunday, December 12, 2010

If you think of Ireland, contemporary art music probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe you should. When it's gross and cold out this Sunday, snuggle up to two live...

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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.

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