Relevant Tones

The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a  relatively new but impressive festival held by the prestigious  conservatory of music.

This third in a four-part series features premiere performances of music by the guest composers.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Stimmung (excerpts)

Damien Ricketson: Tesserae

Koji Nakano: Time Song III- Reincarnation “The Birth of a Spirit”

Pierre Boulez: Improvisé

Luciano Berio: Cries of London (excerpt)

Gérard Grisey: Vortex Temporum (excerpt)

Fausto Romitelli: Domeniche alla periferia della’impero

Though relatively new on the scene, with their signature combination  of  virtuosic playing, audience-friendly manner and willingness to take   risks, Spektral Quartet is proving to be a string quartet to watch.  We’ll feature their latest release on the Sono Luminus label, Serious Business.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Chris Fisher-Lochhead: Hack, Set I

Sky Macklay: Many Many Cadences

David Reminick: The Ancestral Mousetrap (excerpts)

Chris Fisher-Lochhead: Hack, Set III & IV

The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a  relatively new but impressive festival held by the prestigious Shanghai  Conservatory of Music. This second in a four-part series features the  resident composers and some of the students involved in the festival.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Chen Yi: Night Thoughts (excerpts)

Chen Yi: Momentum

Jean-Patrick Besingrand: Interjections and Fragmentations

Geng Shiqi: Spring Rain of a Lotus Pond

Wu Fan: Jumping Lines and Surfaces

Beat Furrer: Gaspra (excerpt)

The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a  relatively new but impressive festival held by the oldest conservatory  of music in China. This first in a four-part series features the music  of Chinese composers featured at the festival.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Wen Deqing: The Glamor of Shanghai Concerto (excerpt)

Chen Musheng – Morning Rays on the Sea (excerpt)

Wen Deqing: The Sound Shining

Jia Daqun: The Prospect of Colored Desert

Ye Guohui: Beijing Opera Silhouettes

Lu Pei: Rhythm of Shanghai (excerpt)

Although a famous name can open some doors, it’s not always easy   following in the footsteps of a great artist. Many children of great   composers and performers have chosen to go a different route altogether,   but others have found their own artistic identity.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Sergei Prokofiev: Vision Fugitives Op. 22, No. 18

Gabriel Prokofiev: Strong Quartet No. 2, II

Lisa Bielawa: Double Violin Concerto, II. Song

Herb Bielawa: “Nightland” fr. Stone Settings

Gabriel Kahane: The Fiction Issue, Part I

Ramon Zupko: Piano Concerto, Windsongs, II

Mischa Zupko: Eclipse

Lukas Ligeti: Great Circle’s Tune I (excerpt)

Norman Dello Joio: Capriccio fr. City Profiles

Justin Dello Joio: The March of Folly, I (excerpt)

Chinese composer Bright Sheng grew up hearing traditional Chinese  music but became fascinated by Western classical music. As a composer,  he’s forged a highly successful career blending both sound worlds into a  fascinatingly distinctive sonic identity.

Bright Sheng: H’un Lacerations (excerpt)

Sheng: Dance Capriccio

Sheng: Three Chinese Love Songs

Sheng: The Blazing Mirage

Sheng: String Quartet No. 4, Silent Temple, III

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran crafts music of an   intimately personal nature, making her one of the most often performed   composers of her generation.

We’ll talk with Shulamit about her music,  the Contempo music series,  and her legacy at the University of Chicago,  where she was a highly  regarded professor for many years.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

PLAYLIST

Ran: Legends, I

Ran: Credo/Ani Ma’amin

Ran: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, I & II

Ran: Mirage (excerpt)

Relevant Tones heads into the field to Medellín and Bogota for a two-part survey of the music of Colombian composers.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Johann Hasler: Three Pieces for Percussion

Andres Posada: Sombra y Luz (excerpt)

Luis Fernando Franco: Almaguer (excerpt)

Juan Antonio Cuellar: Variations for Violin, Cello and Piano, Op. 32

Relevant Tones continues our popular In the Field series with a trip   to Bogotá and Medillín for interviews with composers and performers  busily making this South American country a mecca for new music.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Camilo Giraldo: Chucu Chucu

Gustavo Parra: El Sapo Greñudo y Labión de Botswana

Carolina Noguera: String Quartet No. 1, IV

Francisco Zumaqué: Matanaganti

Damián Poncé: Dias de Papel

Francisco Zumaqué: Colombia Caribé (excerpt)

Kickstarter has emerged as a viable way for artists to realize their wildest ambitions, including new albums, commissions, world premiere   performances and more.

We’ll sample a few recent projects funded through Kickstarter. 

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Bonnie Miksch: Man Dreaming Butterfly Dreaming Man

Jessica Meyer: Source of Joy

Douglas Laustsen: Natural Interference (excerpt)

Fernanda Navarro: Parthenogenesis

Andrea Clearfield: Convergence