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App Download: David Lang's 'Broken' for Viola and Viol
Every Thursday, Q2 Music shares an exclusive live track we personally select and record for you, and offer for download to your mobile device. Partnering with the best artists and venues in New York...
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App Download: Judd Greenstein's 'Clearing, Dawn, Dance'
Stay surprised and inspired wherever you go! Every Thursday, Q2 Music shares an exclusive live track we select and record for you that's available to download to your mobile device. From New York...
View ArticleLes Arts Florissants Revive an 18th-Century 'Hit'
A wild carnival sets the stage for gambling, intrigue, trysts and mistaken identities, while long-legged dancers strut lasciviously around stage in revealing crimson costumes. The scene seems taken...
View ArticleListen: Music for Heart and Breath with Nadia Sirota and Richard Reed Parry
As part of her week-long Fuse Project residency at Symphony Space, violist Nadia Sirota teamed up with Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire and Bryce Dessner of The National to perform works by the two...
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App Download: Marcos Balter's Ethereal 'Bladed Stance' for yMusic
Stay surprised and inspired wherever you go! Every Thursday, Q2 Music shares an exclusive live track we select and record for you that's available to download to your mobile device. From New York...
View ArticleQ2 Music's Meet the Composer Wins Peabody Award
Meet the Composer, Q2 Music's podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling and breathtakingly beautiful music...
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App Download: Andrew Norman's 'Music in Circles'
Stay surprised and inspired wherever you go! Every Thursday, Q2 Music shares an exclusive live track we select and record for you that's available to download to your mobile device. From New York...
View ArticleOrchestrating 'Meet the Composer' Season 3
"We're trying to compose radio," says Nadia Sirota about the Peabody Award-winning podcast, Meet the Composer, in which she leads listeners through the process behind some of the most interesting music...
View Article#3553: Piano Plus - Mostly
Hear piano music, with and without electronics on this New Sounds program. Listen to the “Trilogy Sonata” – music from the so-called “portrait operas” by Philip Glass, reworked by Paul Barnes, and...
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App Download: Bryce Dessner's 'Delphica'
Stay surprised and inspired wherever you go! Every Thursday, Q2 Music shares an exclusive live track we select and record for you that's available to download to your mobile device. From New York...
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Nico Muhly and Nadia Sirota Stay Connected in Powerful 'Keep in Touch'
“Keep in touch.” With those three welcoming words, whether quietly spoken from inches away or shouted across a crowded subway platform, a connection extends beyond the limits of the space and time...
View Article#3814: Twas the Night Before (Krampus) Christmas
Listen to Christmas music, of the rare and less traditional variety, for this New Sounds. Hear Mongolian folk band Altai arranging "Jingle Bells," along with music from Italian percussionist Alessandra...
View Article#3677: Music, More Music for Christmas
Listen to music of the season this Christmas, New-Sounds Style, with banjo, zither and theremin, piano insides, plus viola and electronics...in the service of some holiday classics. To be sure, there...
View Article#4006: Works for Instrument Multiples
Hear works for instrument multiples on this New Sounds, for either multiple keyboards, or multiples of bowed string instruments – cellos, violins, violas including music by Nils Frahm, Shannon Hayden,...
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#4020: Electroacoustic Music
Hear electroacoustic music for this New Sounds from Australian-born British-based composer/keyboardist Leah Kardos, Irish-born Princeton-based composer Donnacha Dennehy writing for the American violist...
View ArticleMeet the Composer: John Luther Adams
John Luther Adams made all of the wrong career decisions. He got kicked out of multiple high schools, went to the "wrong" college, never finished his masters degree, and ultimately moved as close as he...
View ArticleValgeir Sigurðsson's 'Architecture of Loss'
The founder of the Icelandic label Bedroom Community, composer and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson has always thrived at the blurred crossroads of the synthetic and the organic, traditional composition and...
View ArticleRichard Reed Parry Taps Performers' Inner Metronomes in 'Music for Heart and...
Richard Reed Parry, a composer and multi-instrumentalist best known as a member of the rock band Arcade Fire, has gradually been building up a body of classical compositions based on a simple concept:...
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Listen: Nadia Sirota Premieres Dennehy’s ‘Tessellatum’ for Solo Viola and...
On Friday, Feb. 5 we heard the world premiere of pioneering composer Donnacha Dennehy's Tessellatum with a live audio stream from Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. Originally comprised of 11...
View ArticleListen: yMusic Performs Son Lux, Marcos Balter and Sufjan Stevens
Violist Nadia Sirota continued her week-long residency at Symphony Space on Feb. 2 with indie-classical pieces by Sufjan Stevens, Judd Greenstein and Marcos Balter, performed by her ensemble yMusic.The...
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