Relevant Tones

One of the world’s most famous new music festivals has been held in   Darmstadt since 1946. We’ll trace the festival from its beginnings   through modern times and feature some of the seminal works that were   premiered there.

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PLAYLIST

Pierre Boulez: Doubles

Luciano Berio: Sequenza No. 1 for Flute

Beat Furrer: à un moment de terre perdue

Enno Poppe: Salz

One of America’s most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music   pianists, performance artist and keyboardist Kathleen Supové is known  for breaking boundaries between audience and performer and for her   multimedia performances as the “Exploding Piano.”

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Randall Woolf: Adrenalin Revival, III & II

Corey Dargel: Hooked for Life & Hands fr. Removable Parts

Missy Mazzoli: Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of pianos

Lukas Ligeti: Delta Space (excerpt)

Carolyn Yarnell:  The Same Sky (excerpt)

John Adams: 5 Pages from John’s Book of Alleged Dances

Ronald Roxbury: Goodbye My Fancy

Shulamit Ran: Mirage

Dan Visconti: Ramble and Groove

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms #10 for Guitar and Electronic Sounds

Jennifer Higdon: Scenes from the Poet’s Dreams

Paul Lansky: Horizons

Relevant Tones’ annual live broadcast returns with a 2-hour   broadcast from City Winery.  Performers include Fonema Consort, Gaudete  Brass, and Graham Reynolds.

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Fonema Consort

Mort d’Antigone by Hèctor Parra

Como la leyenda de Tlön, I by Pablo Santiago Chin

Tandem by Chris Fisher-Lochhead

Como la leyenda de Tlön, II by Pablo Santiago Chin

Les sept crimes de l’amour by Georges Aperghis

Gaudete Brass

Bright and Fast from Frost Fire by Eric Ewazen

Record of a Lost Tribe by Conrad Winslow

Still by David Sampson

Gazebo Dances Overture by John Corigliano (setting by Cliff Colnot)

Graham Reynolds

Cult of Color: The Miracle Machine

Back to the Cell (O Sacred Head, Now Wounded)

String Abstraction No. 3 (Cottontail)

The Difference Engine

Before Midnight/Creatures

A master of orchestral timbre and an ardent individualist, Pulitzer  Prize-winning composer Joseph Schwantner has been one of the most  prolific composers in the 20th and 21st centuries. He visits our studios  to talk about his life and music.

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Joseph Schwantner: Aftertones of Infinity

Schwantner: September Canticle (excerpt)

Schwantner: …And the Mountains Rising Nowhere

Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra, III

Thanks to virtuoso performers like Gary Karr, François Rabbath and  Edgar Meyer, the double bass is leaping to the front of the concert   stage and composers are taking note. This week we’ll listen to some of  the music written in the last few decades for this sonorous and  incredibly versatile instrument.

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Adam Ben Ezra: Can’t Stop Running (excerpt)

Frank Proto: Four Rogues, No. 1, Calm

Dave Anderson: Duets

Gunther Schuller: Quartet for Double Basses, II

Patrick Neher: Grig’s Dance

Tom Johnson: Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass

George Pearle: Monody II

Edgar Meyer: Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, I

Manuel Enriquez: Mobil II

Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (excerpt)

Just as influenced by the blazing energy of Count Basie’s big band as   Steve Reich’s minimalism, Dutch composer Louis Andriessen was a true   trailblazer in the 20th century. We celebrate his 75th birthday by   looking back at his illustrious career.

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Louis Andriessen: Life, Part I- Wind

Andriessen: De Staat (excerpt)

Andriessen: Materie, Part I

Andriessen: Lucifer & The Garden of Earthly Delights fr. La Commedia (excerpts)

Andriessen: Worker’s Union (excerpt)

Matthias Pintscher leads a concert of US premieres with members of the New York Philharmonic at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. All of  works were  commissions and were based on public sculptures from Salzburg. Relevant  Tones was on the scene to broadcast the event live.

Musicians of the NY Philharmonic/Matthias Pintscher

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Nina Šenk: In the Absence

Michael Jarrell: Adtende, ubi albescit veritas

Jay Schwartz: M

Vito Žuraj: Insideout

Composers like Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Bartók and have sought to   musically depict their environs for centuries. How are landscapes, both   urban and pastoral, being represented musically today?

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David Sampson: Grant Park from Chicago Moves

Toshio Hosokawa: Landscape V (excerpt)

Peter Sculthorpe: From Oceania

Michael Daugherty: George Washington fr. Mount Rushmore

Joan Tower: Big Sky

John Luther Adams: The Far Country of Sleep (excerpt)

Christopher Tin: Haf Gengr Hriðum (The Storm-Driven Sea)

Pierre Jalbert: Glass is a Place fr. Icefield Sonnets

Versatile singer, pianist and composer Errollyn Wallen is creating a unique body of work and making an international name for  herself along the way. We talk with her and play as much of her music as  we possibly can.

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Wallen: Dervish

Wallen: “Beehive” and “White Christine” from Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals?

Wallen: “Dark and Mysterious” fr. Horseplay

Wallen: Daedalus (excerpt)

Wallen: Daedalus

Wallen: In Our Lifetime

Wallen: My Feet May Take a Little While