4.30.23 - Making Arrangements

4.16.23 - City Life

4.2.23 - Gentle Pulses

3.26.23 - To Remain/To Return (New Releases)

• Julie Cooper - Venus in Sunlight Grey
• Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily - To Remain/To Return
• Steve Reich - Triple Quartet
• Kevin Puts - Marimba Concerto
• Eliot Cole - Postlude No. 6
• Caroline Shaw - Runaway
• Erland Cooper - The Isle, III. Caliban
• Brendan Eder - QX 2021
• Michael Tilson Thomas - You Come Here Often?
• Julie Cooper - Contemplation Suite, I. Dawn
• Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises, Movement VII.
• Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily - En Route to Unfriending
• Aphex Twin, arr. Brendan Eder - #3 Rhubarb

3.5.23 - Dark With Excessive Bright

• Alex Temple - Behind the Wallpaper: No. 3, Tiny Holes
• Missy Mazzoli - Dark with Excessive Bright
• Terry Riley - The Tuning Path
• Geirr Tveitt - Hardanger Fiddle Concerto No. 2, Op. 252, "3 Fjords"
• Arvo Part - Fratres
• Simeon ten Holt - Canto Ostinato
• David Kirkland Garner - after
• David Kirkland Garner - and If
• John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

2.26.23 - Spring Songs

• Ellis Ludwig-Leone - Our Lady of Dunes
• Evan Ziporyn - Frog's Eye
• Ellis Ludwig-Leone - False We Hope
• Caroline Shaw - The Wheel
• Ellis Ludwig-Leone - Prodigal Daughter
• Dylan Mattingly - La Vita Nuova (And Other Consequences of Spring)
• Donnacha Dennehy - That the Night Comes
• Caroline Shaw - To The Hands

2.5.23 - John Luther Adams at 70

• John Luther Adams - Canticles of the Holy Wind, I. - IV.
• John Luther Adams - Become River
• John Luther Adams - Three High Places, I. Above Sunset Pass
• John Luther Adams - Dark Waves
• John Luther Adams - The Immeasurable Space of Tones
• John Luther Adams - Five Athabascan Dances, I. Grandpa Joe's Traveling Song
• John Luther Adams - Dream in White on White
• John Luther Adams - Strange Birds Passing

1.22.23 - Of Birds and Light

• Takashi Yoshimatsu - The Age of Birds, I. Sky
• James Carson - Excerpts from The Story of Birds
• Erland Cooper - Migration I.
• Derek Bermel - Murmurations, II. and III.
• John Luther Adams - The Light That Fills the World
• Kile Smith - The Arc in the Sky, Pt. 1 'Jazz' I. Why Did They All Shout
• Molly Heron - Sun Changes
• Terry Jennings - Piano Piece 1 1965: Winter Trees
• David Maslanka - Tone Studies No. 5
• Kelly Moran - Halogen
• Kelly Moran - Radian

1.8.23 - Ecstatic Strings

• Kenji Bunch - Until Next Time
• Arvo Part - Fratres
• Jacob Ter Veldhuis - Serendipity
• Lou Harrison and Richard Dee - Suite for Violin With American Gamelan
• Michi Wiancko - Planetary Candidate
• Bryce Dessner - Music for Wood and Strings

12.25.22 - New Music for Christmas

• Vladimir Martynov - The Beatitudes
• Georgs Pelecis - Concertino Bianco
• Bo Holten - First Snow
• Vladimir Martynov - Christmas Music
• Arvo Part - The Beatitudes

12.11.22 - What's the Score? The WTJU Classical Quiz Show

Part of the 2022 WTJU Classical Marathon.

12.9.22 - 2022

Part of the 2022 WTJU Classical Marathon.

12.7.22 - the little match girl passion

Part of the 2022 WTJU Classical Marathon.

12.6.22 - Meredith Monk at 80

Part of the 2022 WTJU Classical Marathon.

10.23.22 - Indigenous Music

• Connor Chee - Navajo Vocable No. 9
• Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate - Pisachi (You See)
• Jeffrey Paul - Wind on Clear Lake
• Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate - Moonstrike
• Ned Rorem - Piano Sonata No. 2
• Marc Mellits - Platter of Discontent
• Martin Bresnick - Ishi's Song

10.23.22 - The Blue Hour

• Rachel Grimes, Angelica Negron, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw and Sarah Kirkland Snider - The Blue Hour
• Alex Weiser - Water Hollows Stone
• Janis Ivanovs - Gajputni (Birds of Passage)
• Nico Muhly - 'Station XIV. Jesus is laid in the tomb' from The Street

10.9.22 - Shaw/Reich

• John Luther Adams - Three High Places, 2. The Wind at Maclaren Summit
• Caroline Shaw - The Evergreen
• Steve Reich - Music for Ensemble and Orchestra
• Nico Muhly - The Street, Station VI.
• Caroline Shaw - Cant voi l’aube
• Tonu Korvits - To the Moonlight
• Philip Glass - Piano Etudes, Book 1, Etude No. 2
• John Cage - Four2
• Abel Selaocoe - Ibuyile l’Africa
• Peteris Vasks - Musique du soir

9.18.22 - Landscapes and Lamentations

• Robert Honstein - Olmstead
• John Tavener - Song for Athene
• Eve Beglarian - In and Out of the Game
• Missy Mazzoli - Dark With Excessive Bright
• Pierre Jalbert - L’esprit du nord, III. Fiddle Dance
• Sophia Jani - Saturn Years
• Mark Mellits - Gravity
• Richard Carr - Excerpts from Landscapes and Lamentations
• Arvo Part - My Heart’s In the Highlands

9.4.22 - 'A New Sound' Sampler

• Meredith Monk - Cave Song from Book of Days
• Judd Greenstein - City Boy
• Aart Strootman - Shattered Canon No. 2
• Michael Gilbertson - Born
• Square Peg Round Hole - Dust Will Drown You
• Paul Wiancko - Ode on a Broken Loom
• Caroline Shaw - And So
• Michael Gordon, David Lang & Julia Wolfe - Scene 12: Delivery Boy from The Carbon Copy Building
• Trad./Charles Ives - Steal Away (After Ives’s Piano Sonata No. 2)
• John Tavener - The Protecting Veil, I. The Protecting Veil
• Paul Lansky - Wordless
• George Hurd - What Stories We Tell

8.17.22 - Twilight

• Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett - Tilang
• Shara Nova - No. 3 'A black map' from The Blue Hour
• Caroline Shaw - No. 11, 'Firmament' from The Blue Hour
• Mario Diaz de Leon - Sumna
• Elliot Cole - Bloom
• Radiohead arr. Dan VanHassel - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
• Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett - Harp of Yaman
• David Bedford - Twelve Hours of Sunset
• Caroline Shaw - In manus tuas
• Erik Esenvalds - Stars

8.10.22 - Folk Songs

• Traditional, arr. Donnacha Dennehy - Rambling Boys of Pleasure
• Silvia Tarrozi & Deborah Walker - Excerpts from Canti di guerra, di lavora e d'amore
• Nathalie Joachim - Papa Loko
• Judd Greenstein - Green Fields of Amerikay
• Zhou Long - Excerpts from 8 Chinese Folk Songs
• Luciano Berio - Folk Songs
• Hassan Hakmoun - Saade

7.27.22 - Weather

• Caroline Shaw - Three Essays, First Essay (Nimrod)
• Michael Gordon - Weather One
• Takuma Itoh - Kohola Sings
• John Adams - El Dorado, II. Soledads
• George Antheil - Sonata No. I for Violin and Piano
• Richard Reed Parry & Susie Ibarra - Excerpts from Heart and Breath: Rhythm and Tone Fields
• Gary Schocker - Memory of Trees
• Patrick Harlin - Timelapse
• Philip Glass - Best Out of Three (120bpm)

7.6.22 - Repetition is Memory in Reverse

• Julius Eastman - Joy Boy
• Steve Reich - Reich/Richter
• Samuel Adams - Surface Down from Lyra
• Julius Eastman - Buddha (Field)
• David Lang - "If I Am Silent" from The Writings
• David Lang - "Solitary" from The Writings
• John Luther Adams - Houses of the Wind, III. Tundra Wind
• Samuel Adams - Hades and Persephone from Lyra
• Samuel Adams - River from Lyra

6.29.22 - What is American?

• PUBLIQuartet - Fifth Verse: Prelude
• Rhiannon Giddens arr. PUBLIQuartet - At the Purchaser's Option
• PUBLIQuartet - Fifth Verse: Page of Her Story
• Ornette Coleman arr. PUBLIQuartet - Improvisations on "Law Years" and "Street Woman"
• PUBLIQuartet - Fifth Verse: Land of the Free
• Betty Davis arr. PUBLIQuartet - They Say I'm Different
• PUBLIQuartet - Fifth Verse: Interlude
• Alice Coltrane arr. PUBLIQuartet - Er Ra
• Ida Cox arr. PUBLIQuartet - Wild Women Don't Get the Blues
• Judith Lang Zaimont - in darkness veiled
• Viet Cuoung - Echo Chamber
• Bruce Adolphe - America the Beautiful - A Contemplation
• Andrew Bambridge - Oh Beautiful
• Timo Andres - American Coda
• Jessie Montgomery - Banner
• Clarice Assad - O
• Angelica Negron - through the luminous mantle
• Daniel Bernard Roumain - Our Country
• Julia Wolfe - Flower Power

5.25.22 - Pulitzers and Perspectives

• Anne Leilahua Lanzilotti - ko'u inoa
• Andy Akiho - Excerpts from Seven Pillars
• Raven Chacon - Voiceless Mass
• Dobrinka Tabakova - Nocturne
• Florent Ghys - Excerpts from Ritournelles
• Jlin - Excerpts from Perspective
• Julius Eastman - Stay On It
• Harold Budd - Children on the Hill

4.27.22 - Magnificent Bird

• Gabriel Kahane - Magnificent Bird
• Ben Duinker/Architekt Percussion - Excerpts from Six Changes
• Becca Stevens arr. Timo Andres - Tillery
• Jason Treuting - Nine Numbers, IVc.
• Radiohead arr.Boyd/Metcalf - Daydreaming
• Jane Antonia Cornish - Excerpts from Sierra

4.6.22 - New Songs/Piano

• Gabriel Kahane - To Be American
• Becca Stevens - For You the Night is Still
• Matthew Ulery - Emigre and Exile
• Terry Riley - Cannabis
• Paul McCartney arr. Evan Ziporyn - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
• Jerome Begin - Post-

3.23.22 - Drones

• Arooj Aftab - Udhero Na
• Johann Johannsson - Drone Mass
• Deep Listening Band - Invocation
• Maryanne Amacher - Excerpt from Stain - The Music Rooms (Live Version)
• Evan Chapman - Fiction of Light
• Hildgard of Bingen arr. Bora Yoon - O PAstor Animarum
• Phill Niblock - Hurdy Hurry

3.9.22 - 2022 (So Far)

• Jerome Begin - These Patterns
• Johann Johannsson - Divine Objects Part 2 from Drone Mass
• Buke & Gase/So Percussion - Hold It In
• Judd Greenstein - Together
• AIYYER - The Tragedy of Hikikomori Loveless
• Caroline Shaw - "How Do I Find You"
• Daniel Wohl - Drift
• Julia Wolfe - Oxygen
• Kate Soper - The Understanding of All Things
• John Luther Adams - A Weeping of Doves
• Sam Sadigursky - Excerpts from The Solomon Diaries
• Brad Barr - Excerpts from The Winter Mission

3.2.22 - Anti-War/From Ukraine

• Valentin Silvestrov - Two Sacred Chants, I. Mercy of Peace
• John Adams - The Wound-Dresser
• Alexander Shchetensksy - Requiem et Kyrie
• George Crumb - Black Angels
• Yevhen Stankovych - Ukrainian Poem
• Valentin Silvestrov - Symphony No. 5
• Valentin Silvestrov - Three Postludes, Postlude No. 3

1.26.22 - A Just Intonation Primer

• Michael Harrison - Aeolian Harp
• Harry Partch - Excerpts from Eleven Intrusions
• Lou Harrison - Jahla in the Form of a Duction to Pleasure Leopold Stokowski on his Ninetieth Birthday
• Terry Riley - The Harp of New Albion, I. The New Albion Chorale/The Discovery
• Toby Twining - Chrysalid Requiem, I. Introit: Requiem Aeternum
• Duane Pitre - The Days Long
• Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 9
• Michael Harrison - Just Constellations
• Kyle Gann - Hyperchromatica, I. Andromeda Memories

1.12.22 - Some Winter Music

• Andy Akiho - Karakurenai
• Peteris Vasks - Plainscapes
• John Luther Adams - In a Treeless Place, Only Snow
• Meredith Monk - Excerpts from Facing North
• Rebecca Dale - Winter
• Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vavaldi - The Four Seasons, Winter
• Beat Furrer - Voicelessness (The Snow Has No Voice)
• Barbara Monk Feldman - The Northern Shore

12.22.21 - In Memoriam/Little Match Girl Passion

• David Lang - the little match girl passion
• Frederic Rzewski - Coming Together
• Stephen Sondheim arr. Steve Reich - Finishing the Hat
• Stephen Sondheim arr. Fred Hersch - No One is Alone
• Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In a Room
• Louis Andriessen - De Stijl

12.15.21 - Music I Missed in 2021

• Toumani Diabate - Hainamady Town
• Hildur Guonadottir - Folk faer andlit
• Missy Mazzoli - A Thousand Tongues
• Sarah Kirkland Snider - Nausicaa
• Elliot Cole - Journals, Vol. 1
• Milosz Magin - Stabet Mater
• Toumani Diabate - Mama Souraka
• Mary Kouyoumdjian - Samar's Song
• Caroline Shaw - By and By, I. Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown
• Allison Loggins-Hull - Hammers
• Andy Akiho - Excerpts from Seven Pillars
• Ziboukle Martinaityte - Millefleur

12.11.21 - Exploring Percussion with I-Jen Fang

Part of the 2021 WTJU Classical Marathon.

• Jean-Baptiste Lully - Thesee, Act I, Scene 9: March
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio
• Jacques Philidor - March for Two Paits of Kettledrums
• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, II. Molto vivace
• Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14, V. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat
• Igor Stravinsky - Excerpts from The Rite of Spring
• George Gershwin - Cuban Overture
• Christopher Deane - Vespertine Formations
• Edgard Varese - Ionisation
• John Cage - Living Room Music, 2. Story
• George Crumb - Voices From the Forgeotten World (American Songbook V), No. 3 The House of the Rising Sun
• Judith Shatin - Khamsa
• Leah Reid - Crumbs
• Adolphus Hailstork - Fanfare on Amazing Grace

12.8.21 - Best of 2021

Part of the 2021 WTJU Classical Marathon.

• Jessie Montgomery arr. Jenina Norpoth - Starburst
• Gabriella Smith - Bard of a Wasteland
• Michael Gordon - 8 (Side A)
• Ysaye M. Barnwell - Tango With God
• Arooj Aftab - Inayaat
• Moises Moleiro - Joropo
• Alberto Ginastera - Danzas Argentinas, No. 2
• Julius Eastman - Femenine, No. 1 Prime
• Michael Harrison - Sami (The Acoustic COnstellation)
• Rebecca Dale - Can't Sleep
• Caroline Shaw - Other Song
• Viet Cuong - Room to Move
• Paul Lansky - Four's Company, IV. Vivaldiana
• Max Richter - Exiles, 12 - 18

11.24.21 - On the Road Home

• Kevin Volans - Walking Song
• John Adams Road Movies, I. Relaxed Groove
• Judith Lang Zaimont Hitchin’ - a travellin’ groove
• Anne Boyd As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
• Bela Fleck Night Flight Over Water, I.
• Brian Eno arr. Julia Wolfe 2/1 from Music for Airport
• Robert Honstein Soul House, I-V
• Elie Siegmeister Sunday in Brooklyn, III. Family at Home
• Georgs Pelecis Nevertheless

11.10.21 - Different Trains

• Gabriel Kahane - "November" from Book of Travelers
• Arthur Honneger - Pacific 231
• Christopher Cerrone - Hoyt-Schermerhorn
• Steve Reich - Different Trains
• Gabriel Kahane - "October 1, 1939" from Book of Travelers
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras No. 2, IV. Toccata (O trenzinho do caipira)
• Meredith Monk - Railroad (Travel Song)
• Charles Ives - Orchestral Set No. 2, III. From Hanover Square North…
• Julia Wolfe - Excerpts from Steel Hammer
• Gabriel Kahane - "Model Trains" from Book of Travelers
• Gabriel Kahane - "Baedeker" from Book of Travelers

10.27.21 - Heartstrings

• David Lang - Just (After Song of Songs)
• Dan Trueman - Overhill Road
• Elena Ruehr - Shimmer
• Philip Glass/Tenzin Choegyal - Excerpts from The Last Dalai Lama?
• Dan Trueman - Fifty Five (For Oscar and Art)
• Keeril Makan - Dream Lightly
• Jessie Montgomery arr. Jannina Norpoth - Starburst
• David Bird - "Garden" from Iron Orchid
• Huang Ruo - Excerpts from A Dust in Time

10.13.21 - Throughlines/For George Lewis

• Nico Muhly - Throughline
• inti figgis-vizeuta - quiet city
• Cassie Wieland - shiner
• Milosz Magin - Andante
• Sean Friar - Before and After, VI. Rally
• Richard Carr - Excerpts from Over the Ridge
• Tyshawn Sorey - For George Lewis

8.25.21 - Sincerity & Simplicity

• Caroline Shaw - A Gradual Dazzle
• Arvo Part - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
• Milosz Magin - Vocalize No. 2, Andantino
• R. Murray Schafer - Snowforms
• Danielle Eva Schwob - Out of the Tunnel, II. Slow
• Eliot Cole - Five Easy Pieces
• Lois Vierk - Words Fail Me, I.
• Arvo Part - The Beatitudes
• Jeffrey Mumford - a pond within the drifting dusk
• Max Richter - Exiles

8.11.21 - Music for Many Strings

• Philip Glass, arr. Maya Beiser - Etude No. 2
• Molly Herron - Lyra
• Julia Wolfe - Stronghold, II.
• Tristan Perich - Drift Multiply
• Philip Glass, arr. Maya Beiser - Mad Rush

8.5.21 - Piano Forte

• William Grant Still - Summerland
• Alfred Schnittke - Suite in the Old Style, V. Pantomime
• Ann Southam - Glass Houses No. 5
• Ingram Marshall - In My Beginning Is My End, I.
• John Luther Adams - Dark Waves
• The Westerlies/Conrad Tao - Dendrites I
• The Westerlies/Conrad Tao - On Matters of the Heart
• Sarah Kirkland Snider - The Currents
• Thomas Ades - In Seven Days, I. Chaos - Light - Dark
• Clarice Assad - Archetypes, VIII. The Caregiver
• Kelly Moran - Nereid
• Alex Weiser - And All the Days Were Purple, I., III., V.
• Judd Greenstein - Sing Along

7.28.21 - At the River

• John Luther Adams - Become River
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Deep River
• Charles Ives - Three Places in New England, III. The Housatonic at Stockbridge
• Philip Glass - Aguas de Amazonia, No. 1 Madeira River
• Ann Southam - Rivers, Set 3, No. 5
• Ann Southam - Rivers, Set 2, No. 3
• Traditional, arr. Musekiwa Chingodza - Chigwaya
• Charles Ives, arr. Theo Bleckmann - At the River
• Bright Sheng - China Dreams, IV. The Three Gorges of the Long River
• Daniel Lentz - River of 1,000 Streams
• Ingram Marshall - Entrada: At the River

7.14.21 - Degrees of Freedom

• Michael Harrison - Kalim (Prelude) from Seven Sacred Names
• Paul Lansky - Angles
• Molly Herron - Canon No. 3
• Michael Harrison - Mureed from Seven Sacred Names
• "Blue" Gene Tyranny - The 36 Chords from The Driver's Son
• Kinan Abou-Afach - Of Nights and Solace
• Attacca Quartet/Flying Lotus - Pilgrim Side Eye
• Attacca Quartet/Squarepusher - Xetaka 1
• Attacca Quartet/Daedelus - Holding Breath
• Attacca Quartet/Louis Cole - More Love Less Hate
• Leroy Jenkins/"Blue" Gene Tyranny - On the Road to Blountstown

6.30.21 - Eastman/Shaw

• Caroline Shaw - Other Song
• Caroline Shaw - The Flood is Following Me
• Caroline Shaw - Lay All Your Love On Me
• Caroline Shaw - Cast the Bells in Sand
• Caroline Shaw - Some Bright Morning
• Julius Eastman - Femenine
• Frederic Rzewski - Les Moutons de Panurge

6.16.21 - Meet the Beatles!

• Lennon/McCartney, arr. Toru Takemitsu - Here, There and Everywhere
• Lennon/McCartney, arr. Pauline Oliveros - Norwegian Wood
• Lennon/McCartney, arr. Matt Marks - Revolution 9
• Paul McCartney - Ecce Cor Meum, Interlude (Lament)
• Michael Gordon - I Buried Paul
• Bunita Marcus - Julia
• Lukas Foss - Night Music
• George Martin - Three American Sketches
• John Luther Adams - Four Thousand Holes

6.2.21 - No-Man’s Land

• Julius Eastman - Femenine, No. 1 'Prime'
• Scott Ordway - Excerpts from Nineteen Movements for Unaccompanied Cello
• John Luther Adams - Excerpts from Arctic Dreams
• Eleanor Alberga - No-Man's Land Lullaby
• Christopher Cerrone - Hoyt-Schermerhorn
• Hildegard von Bingen, arr. Bora Yoon - O Virdissima Virga
• Evan Ziporyn - Music from Shadowbang
• Meredith Monk - Steppe Music
• David Lang - "I Want to Live" from Shelter
• Missy Mazzoli - In Spite of All This

5.19.21 - New Songs

• Caroline Shaw - Let the Soil Play It's Simple Part
• Francisco del Pino - Decir
• Jennifer Higdon - A Gentle Notion
• Jacob Cooper - Silver Threads
• Arooj Aftab - Suroor
• Michael Gordon - imreadywhenyouare
• Susie Ibarra - Walking on Water
• Sarah Kirkland Snider - 'Calypso' from Penelope

5.12.21 - The Well/The Gentle

• Pauline Oliveros - A Love Song
• Ben Cosgrove - Oklahoma Wind Speed Measurement Club
• Anais Maviel - La Puyala Munta
• Leo Chadburn - The Indistinguishables
• Scott Wollschleger - Brontol No. 11 'I-80'
• Scott Wollschleger - Secret Machine No. 4
• Scott Wollschleger - Secret Machine No. 6
• Tristan Kasten-Krause - From Thin Air
• Clarice Assad - Archetypes, I. The Rebel
• Peter Martin - Archetypes, VI. The Ruler
• Sean Connors - Archetypes, X. The Creator
• Claire Rousay - Discrete (The Market)
• Pauline Oliveros - The Well/The Gentle
• Arooj Aftab - Inayaat

4.28.21 - Hypnotic Patterns

• Arooj Aftab - Baghon Main
• William Grant Stills - Three Vision. II. Summerland
• Max Richter - Psychogeography
• Igor Stravinsky - The Soldier's Tale, I. The Soldier's March
• Igor Stravinsky - The Soldier's Tale, III. Airs By a Stream
• David Macbride - Songbells, I.
• Sufjan Stevens - Meditation I
• Stacy Garrup - Rites for the Afterlife, IV. The Field of Reeds
• Harrison Leslie Adams - Ecstasy of Love
• Francisco del Pino - Decir, II. El campo
• Michael Gordon - 8

4.7.21 - Rock n' Roll Multiples

• Jacob Cooper - Pasturing II
• Jonny Greenwood - Excerpts from Phantom Thread
• Mary Halvorson/John Dieterich - Lace Cap
• Jacob TV - Les Soupirs de Rameau
• Gabriella Smith - Mare
• Brooks Frederickson - Pat, Paat
• Julia Wolfe - Dark Full Ride
• Missy Mazzoli - Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos
• Jascha Narveson - Ones

3.24.21 - New Sounds

• Arooj Aftab - Mohabbat
• Caroline Shaw - To the Sky
• Michael Gordon - Loved
• Ilari Kaila - The Bells Bow Down
• Christopher Cerrone - A Natural History of Vacant Lots
• Suzanne Farin - The Stimulus of Loss
• Ben Cosgrove - Overpass
• Vijay Iyer - Five Empty Chambers
• Southeast of Rain - Excerpts from 42 Days
• Daniel Lentz - 51 Nocturnes

3.10.21 - Consequences of Spring

• Paul Kerekes - Trail
• Evan Ziporyn - Frog's Eye
• George Lewis - The Recombinant Trilogy, I. Emergent
• Clarice Jensen - Ainu Mosir
• Takashi Yoshimatsu - 4 Pieces in Bird Shape
• Vijay Iyer - Bruits
• Dylan Mattingly - La Vita Nuova (and other consequences of spring)

2.24.21 - Of Places, Of Memory

• Judd Greenstein - Folk Music
• Robert Carl - White Heron
• Kelly Moran - Water Music
• Susie Ibarra - Talking Gong
• Elif Yalvac - Under the Aurora I
• Andy Clausen - Land
• Traditional - Wade in the Water
• Mary Kouyoumdjian - The Revolt of the Stars
• Daniel Lentz - Pacific Coast Highway
• Linda Catlin Smith - Meadow

2.3.21 - The Ringing World

• Ellis Ludwig-Leone - In This House
• Nico Muhly - Four Studies, IV. Open Notes
• Caroline Shaw - The Narrow Sea
• Caroline Shaw - and the swallow
• Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. - Vipassana, No. 1 Of Climbing Heaven and Gazing on the Earth
• iT Boy - Bake-kujira
• Sarah Hennies - Spectral Malsconcities
• Adrian Knight - The Ringing World

1.20.21 - Music for Inauguration/The Grey Land

• Charles Ives - Variations on America
• John Williams - Air and Simple Gifts
• Yoshi Weinberg - A Whirl of Time
• Angelica Negron - Marejada
• Shelley Washington - Towers
• iT Boy - Deities
• John Luther Adams - Three High Places, No. 3 'Looking Towards Hope'
• Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. - The Grey Land

1.6.21 - Remembering Steven Bodner

• Louis Andriessen - Instrumental I from M is for Man, Music, Mozart
• John Adams - "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky" from I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
• Jacob TV - Billie
• William Brittelle - Amid the Minotaurs
• Eve Beglarian - Did He Promise You Tomorrow?
• John Adams - Grand Pianola Music
• Michael Gordon - St. Remy from Van Gogh
• Louis Andriessen - De Staat

12.23.20 - The Year 2020

We looked back at all of my A New Sound shows in 2020 and re-listened to some favorites, and a few pieces that I'd forgotten about but thought deserved another listen.

• Harold Budd - Steal Away
• Andrew Norman - The Companion Guide to Rome, IV. Pietro
• Yevgeniy Sharlat - Spare the Rod, I. Rise
• Caroline Shaw - Plan & Elevation, IV. The Orangery
• Sufjan Stevens - Pluto from 'Planetarium'
• Steve Reich - Duet
• Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons; Spring
• Meredith Monk - Cave Song from 'Book of Days'
• Giya Kancheli - Miniatures, No. 1
• Bunita Marcus - Sugar Cubes
• Julius Eastman/Jace Clayton - Evil N*, Part I
• Nina Simone - "Blackbird" from PUBLIQartet's 'Nina!: Mind the Gap'
• The Pixies arr. Ken Thomson - Where is My Mind?
• Kate Moore - Music Box
• Alvin Singleton - Changing Faces
• Nina Shekhar - hush
• Shulamit Ran - "Shiru l'Adonai' from Shirim L'Yom Tov
• Shera Nova - Let Freedom Ring
• Margaret Bonds - Spiritual Suite, II. The Bells
• John Tavener - Mother of God
• Danny Clay - Music for Hard Times

12.12.20 - Composers and Their Cats

Part of the WTJU 2020 Classical Marathon. It’s remarkable just how many of our favorite composers were cat lovers - from Scarlatti to Stravinsky, Barber to Mozart to Ravel. We’ll listen to an assortment of works inspired by cats (in a few cases, partly composed by cats!) from these feline-loving composers.

• Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals, I. Introduction and Royal March of the Lion
• Samuel Barber - "The Monk and His Cat" from Hermit Songs
• Benjamin Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30, "For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey"
• Maurice Ravel - L'enfant et les sortilèges, M. 71, Pt. 1: Duo miaulé
• Ernesto Lecuona - Black Cat (One-Step)
• Erik Sate - Ludions, No. 5 Chanson du Chat
• Elena Kats-Chernin - Le Chat Noir
• Igor Stravinsky - Berceuses de Chat
• Traditional - Tail Toddle
• Henry Cowell - Because the Cat
• Frederic Chopin - 3 Waltzes, Op. 34: No. 3 in F Major "Cat Valse"
• Jean Absil - Bestiaire, Op. 58, No. 5 Le Chat
• Nora the Piano Cat/Mindaugas Piecaitis - CATcerto
• John Tavener - In Memory of Two Cats
• Chris Hazell - Cat Suite
• Gioachino Rossini - Duetto buffo di due gatti (Cat Duet)
• Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, K.30/L.499, "The Cat's Fugue"
• Leroy Anderson - The Waltzing Cat
• Segei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67, The Cat
• Aaron Copland - The Cat and the Mouse
• Bohuslav Martinu - The Cats Procession on the Night of Solstice
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Nun liebes Weibchen (No, Dear Wifey), K. 625/592a
• Zez Confey - A Cat on the Keys
• David Teie - For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry
• Chris Hazell - Three More Cats

12.10.20 - Tavener & Taverner

Part of the WTJU 2020 Classical Marathon. These two similarly-named English composers, who lived some 500 years apart, are very often confused for each other. John Taverner (1490-1545) was one of the great English composers of the Renaissance. John Tavener (1944-2013) was a renowned 20th-century composer of ‘mystical minimalism,’ known for his affecting, spiritual works, including Song for Athene, which was sung at the funeral of Princess Diana. Though the time between their lives was great, it’s remarkable how clearly these two composers share a sense of the spiritual, and a talent for constructing vast and deeply moving spiritual spaces in music.

• John Taverner - 'Gloria' from Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
• John Tavener - The Protecting Veil, I. The Protecting Veil
• John Taverner - Dum transisset Sabbatum I
• John Tavener - Eternity's Sunrise
• Anonymous - Western Wynde
• John Taverner - 'Sanctus and Benedictus' from Western Wynde Mass
• John Tavener - Song for Athene
• John Taverner - 'Agnus Dei' from Missa Corona spinea
• John Tavener - The Lamb
• John Taverner - In Nomine
• John Tavener - Mother of God
• John Tavener - What God is We Do Not Know
• John Tavener - Dhyana

12.9.20 - Music of the Pandemic

Part of the WTJU 2020 Classical Marathon. Musicians across the globe have seen their entire lives and livelihoods upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, many of today's leading composers and performers explored new ways to make music and share it with music lovers around the world. On this show, we'll hear new works written by composers during the pandemic, new performance projects from some of today's leading performers, and a few gems that have come out on record in the last nine months. Though this has been a challenging time, music and musicians persist and flourish. And the power of music to inspire and enliven our lives has never been clearer.

• Lara Downes - Steal Away
• Nicola Matteis - Alia Fantasia
• Lisa Bielewa - Broadcast from Home - Chapter 11 "Throw a Prayer"
• Sarah Kirkland Snider - Mass for the Endangered, Sanctus - Benedictus
• Nkeiru Okoye - Dusk from African Sketches
• Nkeiru Okoye - Dancing Barefoot in the Rain from African Sketches
• Robert Honstein - Soul House, I. Bay Window
• Charles Ives - Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, III. "The Alcotts"
• Scott Wheeler - Isolation Rag
• Molly Joyce - Who Are You
• Judith Shatin - The Best Angel in Heaven
• Wally Gunn - The Ascendant, No. 1 The Beginning And
• Danny Clay - Music for Hard Times, Nos. 1-4
• Michael Harrison - ust Constellations, No. 1 The Opening Constellation (Summer)
• Steve Reich arr. Erik Hall - Music for 18 Musicians

12.8.20 - Heavenly Music

Part of the WTJU 2020 Classical Marathon. The celesta, the distinctive, small keyboard instrument that sounds like glittering bells or a music box, has had a brief but fascinating history. Since its creation in 1886, composers have used its idiosyncratic sound to evoke celestial bodies (Holst’s The Planets), water and light, to depict magic (Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy or John Williams’ score for Harry Potter), or to conjure a vast, receding space in sound.

• Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op.32, III. Mercury
• Ernest Chausson - La tempête, Op. 18, I. Chant d'Ariel
• Ferde Grofe - Grand Canyon Suite, III. On the Trail
• Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Aria
• Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier, Act II. Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren (Presentation of the Silver Rose)
• John Williams - Prologue from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Ottorino Respighi - Church Windows, P. 150, III. The Matins of St. Clare
• Justin Hurwitz - Mia & Sebastian's Theme (celesta) from La La Land
• Vagn Holmboe - Concerto for Recorder, String Orchestra, Celeste and Vibraphone, Op.122, I. Allegro innocente
• Pyotr Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act 2, No. 14b - Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
• Camille Saint-Saens - The Carnival of the Animals, VII. Aquarium
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Suite for Variety Orchestra, Op. 50b, VII. Waltz No. 2
• Maurice Ravel - Mother Goose (Ballet), M. 62, Fifth Tableau - Empress of the Pagodas; Interlude
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620, Act 1, Scene 19, "Schnelle Füsse, rascher Mut ... Nur geschwinde
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620, Act 2 Scene 23: No. 20, Arie, "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen
• Paul J. Smith - The Blue Fairy from Pinocchio
• Fred Rogers - Won't You Be My Neighbor?
• Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel, V.
• Michael Jon Fink - Bells
• John Williams - Leaving Hogwarts from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op.32, VII. Neptune
• Someday You'll Be Sorry - Someday You'll Be Sorry

12.2.20 - Hold On

• Eve Beglarian - I Am Really a Very Simple Person
• Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 'Classical'
• Lou Harrison - Solo to Anthony Cirone
• Margaret Bonds - Hold On
• John Luther Adams - In the White Silence

11.18.20 - Sanctuary Songs

• Bryce Dessner - Haven
• Lou Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings No. 2, Chorale 'et in Arcadia Ego'
• Michael Gordon - The Light of the Dark
• Thomas Ades - Arcadiana, VI. O Albion
• Devonte Hynes - Perfectly Voiceless
• Arvo Part - My Heart's in the Highlands
• Robert Karpay - Praeludium
• Gabriela Lena Frank - Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, IV. Chasqui
• Lisa Bielewa - Sanctuary Songs, I. Broken
• Juri Seo - String Quartet (Infinite Season), IV. Fall-Winter
• John Adams - “Am I In Your Light” from Doctor Atomic
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Revenant Main Theme ‘Atmospheric’
• Meredith Monk - Nightfall
• Betsey Biggs - Away

11.4.20 - I Hear America Singing

As our country tries to make sense of a stressful and chaotic election, I wanted to play some soothing and calming music that also reflects on the unfinished hopes and dreams many of us have for America. And I wanted to end with Julius Eastman's Stay On It, a call to keep going, to keep fighting for what you believe, no matter what happens in electoral politics.

• Judd Greenstein - Change
• Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (13-instrument ballet version)
• Shara Nova - Let Freedom Ring
• Nathalie Joachim - Suite pou Dantan
• Nkeiru Okoye - Dancing Barefoot in the Rain
• Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 4 'Amazing Grace'
• Traditional - Wondrous Love
• Julius Eastman - Stay On It

10.21.20 - World Map

This show featured mostly new releases that conjure up travel and movement, or evoke different places, be they real or imagined.

• Jessie Montgomery - Starburst
• John Adams - Road Movies
• Andrew Koss - in the wind it goes
• Meredith Monk - 'Travel Dream Song' from ATLAS
• Shuying Li - The Dryad
• Matthew Evan Taylor - Follow to the End
• John Luther Adams - Become River
• Galya Bisengalieva - Aralkum
• Travis LaPlante - Inner Garden, I.
• Osvaldo Golijov - 'Walking' from Falling Out of Time

9.30.20 - Mass for the Endangered

We listened to Sarah Kirkland Snider's newly released, drop-dead gorgeous Mass for the Endangered, paired with two works from violinist/composer Michi Wiancko's new album, Planetary Candidate. We also listened a work by Michi's brother, Paul - his wide-ranging and inventive string quartet Lift, and a lovely palatte cleanser by Ned Rorem.

• Michi Wiancko - Planetary Candidate
• Jessie Montgomery - Rhapsody No. 2
• Ned Rorem - Three Barcarolles
• Paul Wiancko - Lift
• Sarah Kirkland Snider - Mass for the Endangered

9.16.20 - Days of Awe

As the Jewish High Holidays approach, we spent two hours exploring music inspired by Rosh Hashanah (and the shofar) and Yom Kippur (especially the Kol Nidre), with a bit of Sukkot-inspired music at the end of the show.

• Judith Shatin - Teruah
• Jacob Weinberg - String Quartet, Op. 55, I. Rosh Hashanah
• Shulamit Ran - Shirim L'Yom Tov
• Alvin Curran - Shofar Puro Alop
• Steve Reich - Tehellim, I.
• Meira Warshauer - Tekeeyah, I. A Call
• Mohammed Fairouz - Kol Nidre
• Jacob Weinberg - String Quartet, Op. 55, II. Yom Kippur
• Michael Gordon - All Vows
• Jacob Weinberg - String Quartet, Op. 55, III. Sukkot
• David Lang - again (after Ecclesiastes)

9.2.20 - Between Genres

Every minute of music on this show had never been played on WTJU before. That's partly because the first half was all brand-new music released in 2020. But the music of the second hour, which lives in the cracks between classical and other genres, may have been overlooked because it doesn't so easily fall into one genre.

• Wally Gunn - The Ascendant, I. The Beginning And
• Reena Esmail - Darshan
• Nathalie Joachim/Kaufman Music Center Special Music School - Transformation
• Reinaldo Moya - The Way North, VIII. Rain Outside the Church
• Michael Harrison - Just Constellations, No. 2. The Romantic Constellation (Autumn)
• Nina Shekhar - hush
• Robert Honstein - Soul House, I. Bay Window; III. Alcove; IV. Hallway; VII. Copper Beech
• Shara Worden - The Sea
• Gabriel Kahane - November
• Zoe Keating - Walking Man
• Nico Muhly/Teitur - Time to Dry
• Sufjan Stevens - The BQE, II. Sleeping Invader
• Ellis Ludwig-Leone - Night Loops
• Timo Andres - Thrive on Routine

8.19.20 - The Experience of Repetition

Anchored by Clarine Jensen's monumental and affecting piece for solo cello, the experience of repetition as death, we investigated some musics that engaged with repetition in some way - from the propulsive sound world of Marc Mellits, to the delicate, irregular repetitions of Linda Catlin Smith. We also listened to John Cage's lovely Six Melodies as we marked the 18th anniversary of his death, in 1992.

• Alvin Singleton - Changing Faces
• Hillary Hahn/Hauschka - selections from Silfra
• Bongani Ndodana-Breen - Flowers in the Sand
• Marc Mellits - Black
• John Cage - Six Melodies
• Linda Catlin Smith - A Nocturne
• Clarince Jensen - The experience of repetition as death

8.5.20 - Simple Lines of Enquiry

We're following a lot of different musical threads this show, gently exploring work by composers, mostly women, from around the world.

• Michio Miyagi - Haru no Umi (The Sea in Spring)
• Julia Wolfe - IV. Flowers from Anthracite Fields
• Bongani Ndodana-Breen - Rituals for Forgotten Faces, 4b
• Molly Joyce - Body and Being
• Angelica Negron - La Intervencion
• Allison Loggins-Hull - Stolen
• Karen Tanaka - Frozen Horizon
• Nathalie Joachim - Fanm d'Ayiti
• Linda Catlin Smith - Through the Low Hills
• Emma O'Halloran - Night Music
• Kate Moore - Music Box
• Ann Southam - Simple Lines of Enquiry, X. and XI.
• Caroline Shaw - To The Hands

7.22.20 - Artifacts

In the first half of this show, we heard five works that are either re-interpretations or re-compositions of music of the past. In the second hour, we listened to a variety of very recent works, including some that, to me, comment on or explore some of the ideas brought up by one of the works in the first half of the program.

• Lara Downes - Steal Away
• Hildegard von Bingen - O ignee Spiritus
• Valerie Coleman - Umoja
• Jacob Cooper - Terrain
• Tania Leon - Alma
• The Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
• Loud Reed, arr. David Lang - Heroin
• Traditional/Lara Downes - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
• Johann Johannsson - A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder
• Flutronix - She Is
• John Luther Adams - 'Mclaren Summit' from The Wind in High Places
• Anthony Braxton - Pulse March
• Qasim Naqvi - The Banquet
• Meredith Monk/Mieke van Hoek - Meicke's Melody #5
• Elliot Cole - Bloom Suite

7.8.20 - Who Are You: (Mostly) New Releases

This was a huge grab bag of releases from 2020, anchored by two tracks from Molly Joyce's transcendant new album Breaking and Entering, coupled with a selection of older pieces (dating back to 1972). With full awareness of just how much classical music and contemporary classical music need to embrace composers and performers who identify as women and people of color, I have decided that 51% or more of each of my A New Sound programs going forward will be devoted to exploring music by women and composers of color.

• Molly Joyce - Front and Center
• big dog little dog - Ultraviolet
• Ornette Coleman - "Skies of America," "Birthdays and Funerals," "The Men Who Live in the White House," and "Sunday in America" from Skies of America
• Vivian Fung - Birdsong
• Laurie Anderson - Song for Bob
• Marti Epstein - Grand Island
• Molly Joyce - Who Are You
• Nick Storring - Tides That Defeat Identity
• Jeffrey Mumford - a pond within the drifting dusk
• Reena Esmail - Zeher (Poison)
• Martin Bresnick - My Twentieth Century

6.24.20 - Which Side Are You On?

I had one last work by Julius Eastman that I wanted to share: the live recording made in 1974 of his large piece Femenine, which should be counted alongside works by Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams as a kind of minimalist masterpiece. We also listened to a variety of works created by living black composers and Frederic Rzewski's virtuosic call to arms, Which Side Are You On?

• Jessie Montgomery - Strum
• Nkeiru Okoye - Dusk
• Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey - Invisible Ritual, I.
• Frederic Rzewski - Which Side Are You On?
• Julius Eastman - Femenine
• Nina Simone arr. PUBLIQuartet - Blackbird

6.10.20 - Stay On It: Julius Eastman Portrait

As people poured into the nation's streets to protest systemic racism and the murder of innocent black Americans by law enforcement, we spent two hours with Julius Eastman's transformative, revolutionary music. It's a testament to his lived experience as a black man, a gay man, a virtuosic performer and a supremely inventive composer who largely failed to find support in a musical culture and community that was at best, suspicious, and at worst, actively resistant to his presence.

• Julius Eastman - Stay On It
• Julius Eastman/Jace Clayton - Evil N_____
• Julius Eastman - Crazy N_____

5.27.20 - Beautiful/Mechanical

We listened to Eric Hall's new arrangement of Steve Reich's minimal masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians, made during quarantine, as well as an assortment of works that explore the intersection of beauty/fluidity/flow and mechanicalness/pulsation/rigidity.

• Steve Reich - Vermont Counterpoint
• Lou Harrison - Suite No. 2
• Caroline Shaw - Draft of a High Rise
• Bunita Marcus - Sugar Cubes
• Philip Glass - "Evening Song" from Satyagraha
• Steve Reich (arr. Eric Hall) - Music for 18 Musicians

5.13.20 - Time Does Not Exist

In these months of suspended time, I thought it would be interesting to listen to works that use time in very different ways, or that attempt to create very unusual or extreme experiences of time.

• Ann Southam - Stitches in Time
• Giya Kancheli - Miniatures, No. 1
• Philip Glass - Act IV. Building from Einstein on the Beach
• Bunita Marcus - ... but to fashion a lullaby for you...
• Meredith Monk - Nightfall
• Olivier Messiaen - V. Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus, from Quartet for the End of Time
• Kyle Gann - Time Does Not Exist
• Arvo Part - Sarah Was Ninety Years Old

4.29.20 - New Albion

A few beautiful works from the New Albion Records catalog by Peter Garland, Janice Giteck, and Karen Tanaka, formed the basis of this program. We also listened to the first movement of Terry Riley's breathtaking The Harp of New Albion, one of this veteran composer's most deeply moving works and a stunning display of the imaginative powers of his improvisational practice.

• Peter Garland - Walk in Beauty
• Ann Southam - Song of the Varied Thrush
• Terry Riley - The Harp of New Albion, I. The New Albion Chorale/Discovery
• Janice Giteck - Om Shanti
• John Cage - Experiences No. 2
• Karen Tanaka - The Song of Songs
• Richard Reed Parry - Interruptions (Heart and Breath Nonet)

4.8.20 - Lament for Jerusalem/Book of Days

We listened to two major spiritual works, both of which I'd been listening to repeatedly recently. John Tavener's Lament for Jerusalem is a set of seven gorgeous cycles for choir and orchestra. It's incredibly affecting music about searching for peace between religions. And Meredith Monk's Book of Days is perfect music for these days when time seems to have halted, our hours filled with quiet, simpler pleasures, and perhaps, in the absence of other activities and movement, more observations of the natural world and thoughts about time, connection, and humanity.

• John Tavener - Lament for Jerusalem
• Meredith Monk - Book of Days
• Meredith Monk - 'Night Travels' from ATLAS

3.25.20 - The Uses of Nostalgia

We listened to music that looked back, in some way, to music of the past. A number of pieces on the program also had a connection to spring and to growth, including Bernstein's epic finale to Candide, "Make Our Garden Grow."

• Alfred Schnittke - Suite in the Old Style
• Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons; Spring
• Charles Ives - The Pond (Remembrance)
• Luciano Berio - Folk Songs
• Meredith Monk - Memory Song
• Christopher Cerrone - Memory Palace
• Sarah Kirkland Snider - The Orchard
• Brian Eno - Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel: Fullness of Wind
• Charles Ives - Songs My Mother Taught Me
• Leonard Bernstein - "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide

3.18.20 - Expansive Music

In this time of great anxiety, uncertainty and isolation, I wanted to share the that engendered feelings of calm, of bliss, and of vast and light-filled spaces. It's the music I've been reaching for during these tough days.

• Steve Reich - Duet
• Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
• John Luther Adams - The Light That Fills the World
• Laraaji/Brian Eno - The Dance #2 from Ambient 3: Days of Radiance
• Eve Beglarian - I am really a very simple person
• John Luther Adams - Become Desert
• John Cage - Dream

3.11.20 - Space Talk

We listened to music inspired by space - from the stars to planets, the moon to the sun. In the second hour, we thought about the vast cosmic scales of space and time as we heard David Lang's "The Passing Measures," a piece built of slow and gentle swells in voices, strings, percussion, and bass clarinet.

• Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner and James McAlister - "Neptune" from Planetarium
• Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
• Thomas Ades - Polaris
• John Luther Adams - Canticles of the Sky, III. Sky with Endless Colors
• Terry Riley - "Earth/Jupiter Kiss" from Sun Rings
• Alex North - Space Talk
• George Crumb - Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV), II. Beta Cygni
• Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner and James McAlister - "Pluto" from Planetarium
• Mary Howe - Stars
• David Lang - The Passing Measures
• Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

2.12.20 - Drifter: Linda Catlin Smith Portrait

We spent two hours in Linda Catlin Smith's ruminative, painterly sound world, with a brief detour into extraverted orchestral writing of British composer Malcolm Arnold, who is featured on an upcoming Charlottesville Symphony concert.

• Linda Catlin Smith - Drifter
• Malcolm Arnold - Tom o'Shanter Overture
• Linda Catlin Smith - Dirt Road
• John Cage - String Quartet in Four Parts

1.29.20 - 2020 Classical Grammy Winners

Bartok said "Competitions are for horses, not artists." And I generally agree - one should remember that prizes are as much about the awarders as the awardees. Nonetheless, some truly compelling new music was recognized at the Grammy Awards on January 26, 2020, including some pieces that I overlooked in 2019.

• Caroline Shaw - Plan and Elevation
• Wynton Marsalis - Fiddle Dance Suite, No. 4. Nicola's Strathspey
• James Matheson - Alone, in waters shimmering and dark
• Jennifer Higdon - Harp Concerto
• Andrew Norman - Sustain
• Terry Riley - "Planet Elf Sindoori" and "One Earth, One People, One Love" from Sun Rings

1.22.20 - New Releases, Vol. 3

Every few months I like to check in the very newest of the new. For this show, we listened to two rapturous song cycles (by Alex Weiser and Donnacha Dennehy) that both came out in 2019.

• Alex Weiser - and all the days were purple
• Yevgeniy Sharlat - Spare the Rod!
• Gabriella Smith - Tessellations
• Donnacha Dennehy - The Hunger

1.15.20 - Liquid Architecture/Frozen Music

Sir John Summerson noted that architecture is an art that is "constantly attempting to realize in solid, stable form those effects which music is able to conjure up in an instant."

• Lewis Spratlan - Bangladesh
• Andrew Norman - Light Screens
• Jennifer Higdon - blue cathedral
• Christopher Cerrone - High Windows
• Ann Southam - Glass Houses, No. 5
• Ann Southam - Glass Houses, No. 9
• Andrew Norman - The Companion Guide to Rome

1.1.20 - In Wonder

I wanted to start the new year with some music that celebrates or explores wonder - awe at the natural or the spiritual.

• John Luther Adams - Red Arc/Blue Veil
• John Cage - In a Landscape
• John Adams - The Dharma at Big Sur
• David Lang - glory from mystery sonatas
• Stuart Dempster - Morning Light
• Eve Beglarian - Wonder Counselor
• Marcos Balter - Bladed Stance
• Meredith Monk - Ascent from Songs of Ascension
• Michael Gordon - Light is Calling

12.13.19 - Classical Caribbean

We surveyed the history of classical music in the Caribbean region from the late 18th century through to the present day.

• Samuel Felsted - Overture from Jonah
• Joseph Bologne, Chevalier des Saint-George - Symphony in G Major, Op. 11
• Manuel Samuell Robredo, arr. Leo Brouwer - Eight Contradanzas
• Ignacio Cervantes - Selections from Danzas Cubanas
• Juan Morel Campos - Buen Humor!
• Jan Gerard Palm - Generaal Joubert, Fantasia en La Major, and Erani Tu Malu
• Frederic Hymen Cowen - The Butterfly's Ball
• Ludovic Lamothe - Album Leaf No. 1 in F-sharp minor
• Ernesto Lacuona - Rapsodia Cubana
• Julio Racine - Tangente au Yanvalou
• Tania Leon - Oh Yemanja - Mother's Prayer
• Eleanor Alberga - Ride Through
• Nathalie Joachim - Suite pour Dantan, I. Prelid

12.12.19 - 10 Years of Roomful of Teeth

We celebrated the ten-year anniversary of this trailblazing new music vocal ensemble with an assortment of joyous, genre-bending works written especially for the group.

• Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 Voices
• Judd Greenstein - A E I O U
• Shara Nova - An Unknown Distance Yet to Run from The Colorado
• Michael Praetorius, arr. Eric Dudley - How a Rose
• Caleb Burhans - Beneath
• Michael Harrison - The Opening Constellation from Just Constellations
• Eve Beglarian - None More Than You
• William Brittelle - Amid the Minotaurs
• John Luther Adams - Cathedrals in the Desert from The Colorado

12.11.19 - El Nino

John Adams’s magnificent, multifaceted opera-oratorio, El Niño, tells the nativity story with texts both familiar (the Gospel of Luke) and unconventional (gnostic gospels and contemporary Mexican poetry).

• John Adams - El Niño
• John Tavener - The Lamb
• Gabriel Jackson - The Christ Child
• Michael Torke - December

11.27.19 - Comfort Food

On the day before Thanksgiving, which is our great American gastronomical holiday, we listened to recent music about food, eating, memory, and comfort.

• Caroline Shaw - Valencia
• Timo Andres - Comfort Food
• Du Yun - An Empty Garlic
• Marc Mellits - String Quartet No. 3 'Tapas'
• Angelica Negron - Bubblegum Grass/Peppermint Field
• David Lang - spud
• Carolyn Chen - Persimmons
• Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe - "Cherry Cheesecake" from The Carbon Copy Building
• Marc Mellits - Platter of Discontent

10.30.19 - Monsters!

On the night before Halloween, we listened to three works about monsters - the stories we tell about them, and the people who create them.

• Philip Glass - Suite from Dracula
• H.K. Gruber - Frankenstein!!
• Michael Gordon - Acquanetta

10.16.19 - Strange Birds

In light of the recent news of the extent of the decline of wild birds in North America, we listened to a variety of works written in the last 40 years about birds, their songs, and their movements.

• Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus Articus
• Kaija Saariaho - Terrestre
• Takashi Yoshimatsu - And Birds are Still...
• John Luther Adams - "Meadowdance," "Mourning Dove," and "Apple Blossom Round" from songbirdsongs
• Jennifer Higdon - An Exaltation of Larks
• Jonathan Harvey - Bird Concerto with Pianosong
• John Luther Adams - Strange Birds Passing

9.18.19 - Part/Schnittke

In the first half of the show, we listened to a series of shorter works by Arvo Part and Alfred Schnittke. In the second half, we recreated the premiere of Part’s masterpiece Tabula Rasa, where it was performed alongside Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso No. 1.

• Arvo Part - Spiegel im Spiegel
• Alfred Schnittke - Polka
• Schnittke - "Pantomime" from Suite in an Old Style
• Part - The Beatitudes
• Part - Variations for the Healing of Arinushka
• Schnittke - Concerto for Mixed Chorus, I. O Master of All Living
• Schnittke - Variations for String Quartet
• Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No. 1
• Part - Tabula Rasa

9.11.19 - New Releases, Vol. 2

We listened to brand-new music by a diverse group of composers, all out on CD or digital platforms in the year 2019.

• Caleb Burhans - A Moment for Jason Molina
• Nathalie Joachim - Madan bellegarde
• Christopher Cerrone - The Branch Will Not Break
• Juri Seo - Respiri
• Shelley Washington - Towers
• Nathalie Joachim - Suite pou dantan
• Amy Beth Kirtsen - h.o.p.e.
• Eleanor Alberga - String Quartet No. 2
• Marcos Balter - We Carry Out Homes Within Us

9.4.19 - The Worker

We live in a world where millions of workers are at the mercy of large corporations, working in intolerable conditions, denied basic services and living wages, and with too few protections from governments that. Julia Wolfe's newly released Fire in my mouth memorializes the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, while Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated! is an intricately detailed set of variations and a rallying cry to workers everywehre.

• Julia Wolfe - Fire in my mouth
• Frederic Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

8.21.19 - Some Connecticut Gospel

Connecticut is perhaps most often experienced as a place people pass through on their way to New York City or Boston. But this third-smallest state in the union has been home to an outsized number of questing, supremely thoughtful composers whose work has real spiritual, artistic and philosophical depth. Not least of whom is the great, trailblazing American composer, sonic innovator and philosopher-musician, Charles Ives.

• Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
• Aaron Jay Kernis - Musica Celestis
• Paula Matthusen - in absentia
• Timo Andres - Some Connecticut Gospel
• Martin Bresnick - Prayers Remain Forever
• Charles Ives - Serenity
• Ingram Marshall - Kingdom Come
• Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4

8.14.19 - Sport: The Agony and the Ecstasy

In the first half of this program, we’ll hear five works that explore the joy, glory and pleasure of sport. In the second half, we’ll contemplate the less sunny side of sports: the agony of defeat, the extreme pressure on athletes to perform, the tragedy that sometimes strikes.

• Michael Torke - Javelin
• Erik Satie - Sports et Divertissements
• William Schuman - "The Gladdened Multitude" from The Mighty Casey
• Claude Debussy - Jeux
• Eve Beglarian - Brownie Feet
• John Adams - Lollapalooza
• Annie Gosfield - Brooklyn, October 5, 1941
• Michael Nyman - Memorial
• William Schuman - "Oh Somewhere" from The Mighty Casey
• Eve Beglarian - in and out of the game

7.24.19 - The Ghost of the Baroque

Composers have long used music of the Baroque era in their own works - think Brahms in the final movement of his 4th symphony - both to engage with the music as music, contrapuntally dense, harmonically rich as it is - but also as a symbol of some long-vanished, golden past; or as a kind of neutral canvas that they can paint with their own musical ideas; or even as a kind of mirror, something that brings the qualities of their own music into clearer focus.

• George Crumb - "Music of the Starry Night" from Music for a Summer Evening
• Lukas Foss - Phorion
• Kathryn Salfelder - Cathedrals
• Arvo Part - Collage uber B-A-C-H
• Hannah Lash - Suite (Remembered and Imagined)
• Paul Lansky - Partita
• Alfred Schnittke - Musica nostalgica
• Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 Voices

7.3.19 - American Mavericks

In honor of 4th of July, this program is called “American Mavericks,” featuring music by 12 maverick American composers, each of whom blazed their own musical trail by creating new sounds, new musical ideas, or new techniques. We’ll listen to these works in the order they were written, starting in 1906 with Charles Ives’ Central Park in the Dark, and ending with Pauline Oliveros’ Suiren from 1989.

• Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark
• Henry Cowell - Aeolian Harp
• Edgard Varese - Integrales
• Ruth Crawford Seeger - Andante for Strings
• John Cage - Dream
• Conlon Nancarrow - Study for Player Piano No. 3a
• Lou Harrison - Concerto in Slendro
• Steve Reich - Piano Phase
• Morton Feldman - The Viola in My Life II
• Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 4 "Amazing Grace"
• Meredith Monk - Gotham Lullaby
• Pauline Oliveros - Suiren

6.26.19 - New Releases, Vol. 1

This show features four brand new releases, anchored by two incredible 40-minute works that have been released in just the past month, both of which show established composers making really major and sustained arguments for a new kind of music. And we’ll also hear two recent, shorter works by two younger composers who already have distinct and deeply engaging musical voices.

• Caroline Shaw - Punctuum
• John Luther Adams - Become Desert
• Isaac Schankler - Artifacts
• Daniel Wohl - Etat

6.12.19 - Horn of Plenty

For WTJU's June pledge drive, I put together a special program featuring a veritable cornucopia of new music, all written by living composers, and all written in the last 30 years. As a listener, I’m greedy: I want music to make me think, and make me feel, and not to do one at the exclusion of the other. I don’t think it’s too much to ask - I think that’s what we should expect from great art.

• Judd Greenstein - Change
• Kevin Volans - White Man Sleeps
• Missy Mazzoli - Magic With Everyday Objects
• John Luther Adams - Canticles of the Sky
• Merrill Garbus - Ansa ya
• Julia Wolfe - Stronghold
• David Lang - Wed

6.5.19 - Child

In this program, we're going to explore music either written about childhood, or written in honor of or about children - sometimes the composer’s own, but not always.

• Osvaldo Golijov - Night of the Flying Horses
• Luigi Dallapiccola - Quaderno musicale di Annalibera
• Armando Bayolo - 6 Studies in Flowing Time
• Arvo Part - Fur Alina
• Ned Rorem - Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain
• Marc Mellits - Mara's Lullaby
• David Lang - Child
• Ned Rorem - Four Poems Without Words: Lullaby

5.22.19 - Home

"Home” is more than just shelter or a physical environment - it has powerful emotional, philosophical, and cultural meanings as a place of safety, refuge, stability, comfort, self-expression, a place of origin, a place held in contrast to the rest of the world. And isn’t being home, whether in physical space or with a particular person, something we all yearn for?

• David Lang - "Before I Enter" from Shelter
• Lukas Ligeti - Moving Houses
• Ruth Crawford Seeger - "Home Thoughts" from Five Songs
• Runa Ingimundardottir - From My Home
• Charles Ives - Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord, Mass., 1840-1860) III. The Alcotts
• Sarah Kirkland Snider - "Home" from Penelope
• Steven Mackey - Dreamhouse
• David Lang - "I Want to Live" from Shelter

5.8.19 - The Ocean of Now

This is a program of recently written music all about the sea, exploring how composers today are inspired by the ocean, or by humans’ relationship with the ocean, or about some aspect of the ocean or oceanic life.

• Fjola Evans - Shoaling
• Thomas Ades - Polaris
• George Crumb - Vox Balaenae
• Lois Vierk - To Stare Astonished at the Sea
• Robert Paterson - Deep Blue Ocean
• John Luther Adams - Become Ocean

5.1.19 - Musical Happiness

This program features two kinds of works: pieces whose explicit subject, though not necessarily mood, is happiness; and works whose mood or spirit, to me at least, traces some facet of happiness, be it joy, or a kind of optimism, or playfulness, or contentedness.

• Philip Glass - "Serra Pelada" from Powaqqatsi
• John Adams - Hallelujah Junction
• Eve Beglarian - I will not be sad in this world
• Lukas Foss - Capriccio for Cello and Piano
• David Bedford - Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves
• Caroline Shaw - Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.a.
• Christopher Cerrone - Double Happiness
• Angelica Negron - La Isla Magica
• Judd Greenstein - At the end of a really great day

4.3.19 - Unbearable Lightness

This program features music that explores both lightness and darkness, heaviness and weightlessness. These composers are exploring what light might sound like, or are attempting to evoke qualities of light in sound, or light and other elemental, atmospheric forces.

• Meredith Monk - Dark/Light 1
• Du Yun - Air Glow
• Judith Shatin - Glyph
• Lois Vierk - Red Shift
• Christopher Cerrone - South Catalina
• Anna Thorvaldsdottir - In the Light of Air
• Meredith Monk - Dark/Light 2

3.20.19 - Recorded Words

Anchored by two large-scale string quartets, this program explores works that utilize recorded human speech or song in some way.

• Eve Beglarian - Creating the World
• Steve Reich - Different Trains
• Jacob TV - The Body of Your Dreams
• Paul Lansky - Notjustmoreidlechatter
• Michael Gordon - The Sad Park
• Julia Wolfe - Reeling
• Anna Clyne - A Wonderful Day
• Nick Zammuto - Real Beauty Turns

3.6.19 - In Memory

This is a program of works written in memory of someone, or music more generally concerned with death or remembrance. The second, third, and fourth pieces on the program recreate a concert that I saw back in 2008 at a festival put on by New Albion Records, held at Bard College’s SummerScape series. Each of the works on that program was a kind of musical memorial. That concert was conducted by my teacher, Steven Dennis Bodner, and I attended it with my father - both Steven and my father are now deceased.

• Arvo Part - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
• Lou Harrison - Threnody for Carlos Chavez
• Daniel Lentz - O-Ke-Wa
• Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel
• William Brittelle - Amid the Minotaurs
• David Macbride - A Special Light
• Louis Andriessen - M is for Man, Music, Mozart
• Michael Gordon - For Madeline

2.20.19 - Monumental Snow

Once it became clear that we were in for some snowy weather on this day in Central Virginia, I decided to share some snow and winter related new music, including Hans Abrahamsen’s monumental Schnee, or snow.

• John Luther Adams - In a Treeless Place, Only Snow
• Meredith Monk - "Keeping Warm" from Facing North
• Timo Andres - Clear and Cold
• George Benjamin - The Mind of Winter
• Matthew Burtner - The Syntax of Snow
• Hans Abrahamsen - Schnee