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SoundNotion is a weekly podcast focusing on the discussion of new music and current
events in the art music world. Giving a voice to contemporary music, our panel
comprises composers and performers who actively promote new compositions and approaches
to performance. Join us each week as we discuss news in the professional orchestra world,
art music’s influence today, recent compositions, commissions, and performances and much
more. Subscribe using the links below and never miss an episode.
On SN 68, David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly of Contemporaneous join the panel to talk opera on the silver screen, composer tantrums about opera, orchestral flash mobs, loud and proud Tchaikovsky by Hahn-Bin and the passing of beloved author Maurice Sendak.
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- David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly of Contemporaneous join the panel this week. Follow, watch and listen but hurry. They move fast.
- English National Opera artistic director John Berry says that the HD cinema experience is bad for opera. In a related story, medication is shown to be bad for sick people.
- Composer Michael Nyman thinks the Royal Opera House should program a work by each UK tax payers (or he’s just off his rocker).
- Children’s author (and librettist/set designer) Maurice Sendak dies at 83.
- The Copenhagen Philharmonic flash mobs some Peer Gynt. For a different take on advanced flash mobbing – try this.
- Hahn-Bin might be getting political with this performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
- Dylan Mattingly‘s Atlas of Somewhere (On the Way to Howland Island) – I. Radial Lift Off Music for Amelia Earhart (2010-2011), perf. Contemporaneous – Amazon MP3
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Jeff Loeffert and Jonathan Nichol of the h2 Quartet join the panel to discuss their new album Groove Machine and discuss Apple’s classical music offerings, a retracted blog post on WQXR’s website, Joshua Bell on Dancing with the Stars, and more!
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- Jeff Loeffert and Jonathan Nichol of the h2 quartet bring their Groove Machine to the SN panel.
- “I think that the iPad should give the tuning note.”
- Mozart named as front-man the New World Symphony’s late night classical/club music chimera – Pulse!
- Joshua Bell ascends to the prestigious DWtS stage.
- The Philadelphia Orchestra set to return from from bankruptcy.
- Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys dead at 47.
- Alarm Will Sound wants your prose for their Cage.
- The Metropolitan Opera rolls in heavy on WQXR. The underwriter is always right.
- #FoTS Rob Deemer wants to cause trouble in the department again.
- Marc Mellits’s Revolution (2004), arr. Jonathan Nichol (2010), perf. h2 quartet – CD – Amazon MP3
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This week Douglas Boyce of counter)induction joins the panel. We take on music myths, creative programing, conflict in performance, Make Music, Occupy Guitarmy (yes Guitarmy), settlement in Louisville? NEWS FLASH: MUSIC + CHILDREN = EMPATHY.
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- Douglas Boyce of counter)induction joins the panel this week. c)i’s new CD group theory from New Dynamic Records mixes up the mixed chamber ensemble.
- Tom Service takes on five myths about contemporary classical music. We take on his take on the number and character of the myths.
- The economic downturn brought no sympathy for the creative class.
- The American Composers Orchestra Announces 21st Annual Underwood New Music Readings. The people’s choice winner gets to compose a ringtone!
- Make Music NY is set for June 21st.
- Occupy Guitarmy? “I got my first real six-string, Bought it at the five-and-dime…”
- Find Kevin Puts’ Pulitzer Prize winning opera Silent Night for free-99 at NPR. Maybe this will cure the opera/pulitzer curse.
- Louisville Orchestra management and labor may be headed for a settlement.
- MUSIC + CHILDREN = EMPATHY
- Douglas Boyce‘s Deixo | Sonata perf. counter)induction – Amazon MP3
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Rob Deemer and Charith Premawardhana join the panel to discuss anthologizing composers, the Tokyo String Quartet’s official goodbye, the music initiative Classical Revolution, Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize win, and much more!
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- Twice the guests, twice the fun. Charith Premawardhana founded Classical Revolution and #FoTS Rob Deemer fears a composer revolution after daring to pick three names for a book.
- The Best Damn New Music Team (Frank J. Oteri, Emily Green and Rob Deemer) gives perspective as Anthologygate continues to unfold.
- Classical Revolution holds its first international conference in Chicago – seminars and two live shows. Find a Classical Revolution chapter near you.
- Tokyo String Quartet will be hanging it up after the 2012/2013 season.
- The music world loses Dick Clark, Levon Helm and Greg Ham.
- Kevin Puts wins the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in music for his opera Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts.
This week with guest composer Ricardo Lorenz-Labor issues with orchestraZZZZZZZZzzzzz, adding Secretary of Culture to 25th Amendment, arena opera, 8 new(York) pieces from Ethel PLUS Sondheim and SoundCloud.
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- Composer Ricardo Lorenz joins the panel this week. He’s got Sondheim in his piano, is irreverently reverent, PLUS – He helps us rewrite the 25th Amendment.
- NewMusicBox says SoundCloud is great. Also, it could lead to a Rap Cantata.
- “So what are you going to do with that degree?” 10 of 181 Guggenheim’s go to composers in 2012.
- The Louisville Orchestra stays on message as Minnesota hits hard times.
- Ethel gets behind new(York) music with a new recording.
- Seattle Opera to bring arena opera to the community.
- Ricardo Lorenz‘s El Muro – Amazon MP3
– iTunes
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