As of September 1, 2014, Hammered! is on hiatus.
Say hello to Hammered!, Q2 Music's hour-long, weekday program devoted the extraordinary breadth and ever-evolving repertoire of music for keyboard. From concert grand to disklavier, synthesizer to clavichord, prepared piano to toy piano, Hammered! shares musical colors from ebony to ivory and every shade in between.
Hammered! streams weekdays at 10 am on Q2 Music.
These shows originally aired the week of February 22, 2010. For the original show page, click here
Iannis Xenakis was a brilliant composer who has an almost cultish following. When I was in college, mentions of the word Xenakis were often accompanied by Ozzy Ozbourne-esque fists of rock and tongue-waggling. Why would a post-war, Greek-French composer, mathematician and architect be the source of such rabid devotion?
Q2 presents an evening devoted to Chou Wen-chung — one of the legendary composers of our time. Host Nadia Sirota and Mr. Chou welcome some of today's leading musicians, who will honor his contributions to contemporary music with a live performance from the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.
The average person needs encouragement to explore a wider range of possibilities outside of their comfort zone, but for composer David Soldier, there are few zones or possibilities that he has not already explored. Wildly eclectic with an incisive view of how our brains function and respond to music, Soldier has written for and performed in groups of nearly every musical genre, and has even trained elephants to play music- literally.
As of September 1, 2014, Hammered! is on hiatus.
Say hello to Hammered!, Q2 Music's hour-long, weekday program devoted the extraordinary breadth and ever-evolving repertoire of music for keyboard. From concert grand to disklavier, synthesizer to clavichord, prepared piano to toy piano, Hammered! shares musical colors from ebony to ivory and every shade in between.
Hammered! streams weekdays at 10 am on Q2 Music.
