This week in our exploration of the past 100 years of modernism in  music we take a look at the legacy of Arnold Schoenberg. The 1912  performance of Pierrot Lunaire created a model of atonality that  continues to influence modern composers in the present day.

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Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire Part One

In this week’s program we begin a three part adventure tracing the  musical influence of modernist titans Igor Stravinsky and Arnold  Schoenberg from the early 1900s to the present day.

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Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird

What do you get when you combine Moravian ululations, Hindustani raga  rhythms, and a bass clarinetist that spent a decade in Bali studying  gamelan music?

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Since its first performance in 1977, the American Composers Orchestra  (ACO) has been the only orchestra in the world dedicated solely to  commissioning and performing music written by American composers.

We spoke with new Artistic Director, Derek Bermel about his vision  for the group, and took a look back at a few interesting and  groundbreaking performances by this revolutionary group of performers.

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Margaret Brouwer – Breakdown

This weekend we’re featuring the Eviyan Trio. The performers in the  group are Iva Bittova, Gyan Riley and Evan Ziporyn. These three  composers/musicians combine their influences from around the world to  create a soundtrack for the 21st century global village.

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Eviyan Trio – Odd Meeting

Persian poet and mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi has had an enormous  influence not only on other poets and writers but on thinkers of all  kinds.  We play music on  today’s program by several composers inspired  by this timeless poet’s work.

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Karol Szymanowski: Symphony No. 3, Vienna Phil/Boulez

Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winning composer Stephen Albert died  tragically in 1992, well before his time.  On the occasion of an  important performance of his seminal piece To Wake the Dead in Chicago, we take a moment to celebrate his legacy and to feature a piece inspired by his music.

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Stephen Albert – Symphony No. 1, Movement 1

Seth interviews John Corigliano.  We will feature music from the  films Altered States and Revolution as well as a piece of surprisingly  stunning beauty for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart.

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Altered States,  Christopher Keene (conductor)

Filled with Latin rhythms and theatrical drama, Osvaldo Golijov‘s  setting of the St. Mark passion is both universally appealing and  intensely personal, reflecting his own influences as an Argentinean-born  Jewish composer of Russian and Romanian extraction.

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Long a masterful purveyor of glissandi, harmonics, and heavenly  arpeggios, the harp has leapt into the modern era with a plethora of  dynamic new compositions. We’ll sample a few this week to see just how  far the instrument has come since the days of Wagner and Tchaikovsky.

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Claude Debussy – Trio for flute, viola, and harp, Debussy Trio