Listen to an extended version of Brian Lauritzen’s interview with Tonality’s Alexander Blake.

Clint Mansell is an outlier. Blunt, British, and formally untrained, he’s a film composer who doesn’t follow convention or kowtow. He’s always been more of an auteur’s composer than a populist, ever since he declared himself to Hollywood with a minimalist earworm score for Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream.

In this interview, Mansell discusses his work on Loving Vincent, his relationships with Aronofsky and Jones, his score for the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero” (which recently won an Emmy for best TV movie) — and how he can’t help but hear himself and his emotional state in the music he writes.

Listen to an extended version of Tim Greiving’s interview with Film Composer Clint Mansell.

KUSC’s Alan Chapman has a lot to say about music, but can he say it in 60 seconds? That’s the Chapman Challenge. We ask a question and Alan has a minute to answer it. Today’s question is: What exactly are Köchel numbers?

The LA Phil is getting set to give the downbeat on its 99th season this week at Walt Disney Concert Hall. For the occasion, they’ve got Mozart on their mind. Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel says there’s a duality in Mozart’s music that’s almost an oxymoron.

It’s Friday, so KUSC’s Out and About brings you Gail Eichenthal and LA Times and KUSC film critic Kenneth Turan talking about the series “Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles” running at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood and the Downtown Independent through December 10th.

Listen to part 2 of our interview with Artistic Director and founder of Viver Brasil, Linda Yudin.

Viver Brasil has spent twenty years using Afro-Brazilian music and dance to build a bridge between Los Angeles and Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Artistic Director Linda Yudin founded Viver Brasil with her husband, Bahian dancer and percussionist Luiz Badaró. She’s our guest this week on KUSC Out and About.

It’s one of the most beautiful intersections in Los Angeles—where 2nd Street meets Grand Avenue—an incredible hub of architecture, music, and art. Before the Broad got there and even before Walt Disney Concert Hall arrived, the Colburn School took up residence at 2nd and Grand. All of that creativity in one place is a real boon to the students of the Colburn School, according to Colburn’s President, Sel Kardan.

From San Diego to Santa Barbara, from Long Beach to Palm Springs, more than 60 cultural institutions all over Southern California are coming together for a major arts initiative opening this week. It’s called Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, and it explores Latin American and Latino art, in dialogue with the city of Los Angeles.

A dramatic visual component of the festival is set to be unveiled September 16 at the Central Library: “ Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in L.A.”, presented by the Library Foundation, and encompassing more than 70 events throughout the LA Public Library system. Amanda de la Garza Mata believes it is an especially powerful time for LA’s sizeable Oaxacan community to experience this colorful tribute to the power of their heritage.