Program #723
This New Sounds program from September 30, 1991 was the first time “television-opera” composer Robert Ashley had visited the WNYC studios. His work is widely considered to be the pre-cursor of...
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This New Sounds program from September 30, 1991 was the first time "television-opera" composer Robert Ashley had visited the WNYC studios. His work is widely considered to be the pre-cursor of...
View ArticleBells, Mallets, and Winds
This New Sounds is chock-a-block full of unusually textured new music, featuring some percussion-based works and other recent arrivals which may or may not incorporate wind families of clarinet,...
View Article“What's Opera, (Doc)?”
If the central idea of opera is people singing, then why are these pieces still called operas? We’ll hear music from Laurie Anderson’s “United States,” Robert Ashley’s “Perfect Lives,” and Philip...
View ArticleBells, Mallets, and Winds
This New Sounds is chock-a-block full of unusually textured new music, featuring some percussion-based works and other recent arrivals which may or may not incorporate wind families of clarinet,...
View Article“What's Opera, (Doc)?”
If the central idea of opera is people singing, then why are these pieces still called operas? We’ll hear music from Laurie Anderson’s “United States,” Robert Ashley’s “Perfect Lives,” and Philip...
View ArticleRobert Ashley, In Memoriam
Robert Ashley, composer of 20th and 21st century opera, died this past Monday at the age of 83. To mark his passing, we'll revisit this New Sounds program from September 30, 1991, which was the first...
View ArticleUnusual Uses of the Voice
Listen to other ways of making music with the human voice on this New Sounds. Hear music that occupies the space between speech and song by the late American composer Robert Ashley (he passed away...
View ArticleBells, Mallets, and Winds
This New Sounds is chock-a-block full of unusually textured new music, featuring some percussion-based works and other recent arrivals which may or may not incorporate wind families of clarinet,...
View ArticleUnusual Uses of the Voice
Listen to other ways of making music with the human voice on this New Sounds. Hear music that occupies the space between speech and song by the late American composer Robert Ashley, responsible for...
View Article#3823: Living Opera & Sound Design, with Tom Hamilton
For this New Sounds, electronic composer and sound designer Tom Hamilton joins John Schaefer in the studio. In addition to his own works, Hamilton also collaborated with the late Robert Ashley,...
View Article#3574: Unusual Uses of the Voice
Listen to other ways of making music with the human voice on this New Sounds. Hear music that occupies the space between speech and song by the late American composer Robert Ashley, responsible for...
View Article#3823: Living Opera & Sound Design, with Tom Hamilton
For this New Sounds, electronic composer and sound designer Tom Hamilton joins John Schaefer in the studio. In addition to his own works, Hamilton also collaborated with the late Robert Ashley,...
View Article#3823: Living Opera and Sound Design, with Tom Hamilton
For this New Sounds, electronic composer and sound designer Tom Hamilton joins John Schaefer in the studio. In addition to his own works, Hamilton also collaborated with the late Robert Ashley,...
View Article#4674, The Blue Hour; Music About Memory
Listen to music about memory from a five-pointed collaborative song cycle between composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider, called The Blue Hour,...
View Article#4674, The Blue Hour; Music About Memory
Listen to music about memory from a five-pointed collaborative song cycle between composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider, called The Blue Hour,...
View Article#4674, The Blue Hour; Music About Memory
Listen to music about memory from a five-pointed collaborative song cycle between composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider, called The Blue Hour,...
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