Relevant Tones

By Access Contemporary Music

A podcast about the most fascinating time in classical music history: right now.

Relevant Tones features interviews with and music by some of the most creative figures in contemporary classical musi... more

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How many episodes does Relevant Tones have?

The podcast currently has 424 episodes available.

Relevant Tones episodes:

March 02, 2013 Ying Quartet
In this show we feature music performed by the Ying Quartet from their LifeMusic project. The project began in the late 1990s and seeks to create new works inspired by different facets of the American experience. In doing so the group has commissioned works of contemporary relevance and high aesthetic standards.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Kevin Puts – Dark Vigil
Michael Torke – Corner in Manhattan
Chen Yi – Making the Hand-Pulled Noodles
Augusta Read Thomas – Eagle at Sunrise
Carter Pann – Love Letters
Pierre Jalbert – Icefield Sonnets
...more
59min
February 16, 2013 New Commissioning Models
From joint commissions to Kickstarter, the 21st century has brought new ways of hiring composers to write music. This week, we’ll look at some of the more unusual and innovative methods and the music that resulted and we’ll chat with NewMusicUSA’s Frank J. Oteri and Scott Winship.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Joan Tower – Made in America, Leonard Slatkin, Nashville Symphony
Michael Holober – Chorale, American Saxophone Quartet, Larry Combs(clarinet)
Michael Gordon – Rushes, Dana Jessen
Steven Mackey – Prelude to the End, Soli Chamber Ensemble
Stacy Garrop – In Eleanor’s Words, Buffy Baggott(mezzo-soprano), Kuang-Hao Huang(piano)
Stacy Garrop – String Quartet No. 3 “Gaia”, Biava Quartet
Joseph Schwantner – Chasing Light, Giancarlo Guerrero, Nashville Symphony
...more
59min
January 26, 2013 Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen, one of the world’s top composers, conductors and supporters of new music stops by to talk about his latest album. Featured works include the Violin Concerto and Nyx.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond., Leila Josefowicz, vln.
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
...more
1h
January 12, 2013 Eve Beglarian
Seth talks with composer Eve Beglarian about her upcoming River Project release.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Down the Dirt Road Blues (excerpt), Charlie Patton, guitar & vocals
I’m worried now, but I won’t be worried long
I am really a very simple person
In and Out of the Game, Guidonian Hand Trombone Quartet
Pump Music
Waiting for Billy Floyd
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now (excerpt), Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Brownie Feet
The Flood
...more
59min
January 05, 2013 Music From Haiti
Cellist, music educator, and concert organizer Tom Clowes talks with Seth about the music of Haitian composers.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Sabrina C. D. Jean Louis- Clair de Lune (arr. for four cellos)
Trad: Papa Simbi Sent Me To Find Water, Smithsonian Folkways 06833
Werner Jaegerhuber- Suite FolkloriqueI. ErzulieII. DambalaIV. Papa Simbi
J. Rudy Perrault- Exodus String Quartet, 1. Tale (Generations of Suffering)
Claude Dauphin – String Quartet Op. 3 “From Exile/ lòt bò dlo”I. Allegro e danzante
Michel Monton arr. Fritz Bernardin – Choucounne (for string trio)
Julio Racine- Haitian-American- Quartet No. 1 AllegroII. Yanvalou lentIII. Allegro moderato
All tracks performed by the Crossing Borders Music collective, which includes:Sara Chazin, ln.Maya Shiraishi, vln.Benjamin Weber, vla.Tom Clowes, vc.
...more
58min
December 29, 2012 Robert Lombardo
Iconic Chicago composer Robert Lombardo and his wife Kathleen Lombardo visit the WFMT studio to talk about Bob’s music and their many years of collaborative art-making.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
...more
57min
December 24, 2012 Dealer's Choice
New music for Christmas that has nothing to do with Christmas! You're welcome.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Sebastian Currier: Entanglement, Yehonatan Berick, violin; Laura Melton, piano
Elliot Carter: Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux, Claire Chase, fl.; Josh Rubin, cl
Eric Whitacre: Sleep, Grant Park Chrous
Tan Dun: Concerto for Orchestra, I & II, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Anders Hillborg: Peacock Tales, Australian Chamber Orchestra/Tognetti; Martin Fröst, cl.
John Link: Around the Bend, Flexible Music
...more
58min
December 16, 2012 Aaron Jay Kernis
Aaron Jay Kernis, Yale faculty member and recent winner of Northwestern University’s Nemmers Prize, visits to talk music, life and everything.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Ecstatic Meditations
Mikrokosmos Chamber Choir/Loïc Pierre conducting

Sym of Meditations, Meditation on Oneness
Yale Symphony Orchestra & Glee Club/Kernis; Amanda Hall, sop.

Double Concerto, I
Cho-Liang Lin, v. & Sharon Isbin, g.; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff

Pandora Dance from Colored Field
San Francisco Symphony/Alasdair Neale; Julie Ann Giacobassi, english horn

Two Movements with Bells, I
James Ehnes, v.; Andrew Armstrong, p.
Too Hot Tocatta (excerpt)
Grant Park Symphony Orchestra/Carlos KalmarPurchase
...more
59min
December 09, 2012 Ensemble Dal Niente
Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente visits Relevant Tones to discuss recent performances and successes, including winning the Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreise in Darmstadt, Germany.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
...more
59min
December 01, 2012 George Flynn Part 2
The second in a two-part series featuring the music of George Flynn.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
St. Vincent’s Words, DePaul University Singers/Clayton Parr
Chicago Mood, Cory Tiffin, cl.; George Flynn, p.
From an Island, Nessinger, ms.; Feinberg, p.
Density of Memory, Larry Combs, Julie DeRoche, Wagner Compos, cl; Colnot, DePaul Orchestra
American Howl, Anaphora Ensemble
Moods for Orchestra, Oistrakh Orchestra
Toward the Light (excerpt)Flynn, p.
...more
59min

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