WEB EXCLUSIVE: Composer David Lang discusses his percussion piece "the so-called laws of nature" at the 2011 Bowling Green New Music Festival.

More at http://davidlangmusic.com/music/so-called-laws-of-nature

Visit the series website at http://www.wgte.org/newmusic

Audio Extra: David Lang talks about "the so-called laws of nature" (extended)

LIVING AMERICAN COMPOSERS: NEW MUSIC FROM BOWLING GREEN. EP. # 16-05

TITLE: In Residence: Alarm Will Sound

DESCRIPTION: A program inspired by the 2012 BGSU residency of new music group Alarm Will Sound, with commentary from conductor/founder Alan Pierson; keyboardist/composer John Orfe, and composers Steve Reich, Michael Gordon, and Caleb Burhans.

Audio recordings are under full copyright. Posted here with the kind permission of Alarm Will Sound. http://www.alarmwillsound.com/

Audio content provided in part by our digital partner WQXR's Q2 Music, available 24/7 at http://www.q2music.org/.

Photo: Alan Pierson and Alarm Will Sound (credit: Carl Socolow)

MUSICAL CONTENT:

Steve Reich
Tehillim: IV. Psalm 150:4-6, Halleluhu batof umachol
Alarm Will Sound/Pierson
Cantaloupe 21009
http://www.amazon.com/Reich-Tehillim-Desert-Music-Steve/dp/B00006H6B5/

Michael Gordon
Van Gogh: St. Remy
Alarm Will Sound/Pierson
Cantaloupe 21044
http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Gordon-Van-Gogh-1/dp/B00122Y56A/

John Orfe
Dowland Remix (Flow My Tears)
Alarm Will Sound/Pierson
https://soundcloud.com/alarm-will-sound/dowland-remix/
video: https://www.facebook.com/AlarmWillSound/videos/10153184794484449/

Aphex Twin, arr. Caleb Burhans
Cliffs
Alarm Will Sound/Pierson
Cantaloupe 21028
http://www.amazon.com/Alarm-Will-Sound-Performs-Aphex/dp/B0009XT8KQ/

Caleb Burhans
Iceman Stole the Sun
Alarm Will Sound/Pierson
Cantaloupe 21094
http://www.amazon.com/Caleb-Burhans-Evensong/dp/B00EFB85WK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386963537&sr=8-1

BACKGROUND MUSIC CLIPS:

Steve Reich
Radio Rewrite
Alarm Will Sound/Pierson
Nonesuch 543123
www.amazon.com/Radio-Rewrite-Steve-Reich/dp/B00MQVRVMQ/

Steve Reich
Drumming, Part II
Steve Reich Ensemble
Deutsche Grammophon 1708502
http://www.amazon.com/Drumming-Steve-Reich/dp/B0000D7Z63

John Dowland
Lachrimae Pavan
John Holloway, violin
ECM New Series 2189
http://www.amazon.com/Pavans-And-Fantasies-From-Dowland/dp/B00I87XAP4

Cliffs
Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Sire/Warner Brothers 45482
http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Ambient-Works-APHEX-TWIN/dp/B000002MNZ/

Fingerbib
Aphex Twin
Richard D, James Album
Sire/Warner Brothers 62010
http://www.amazon.com/Richard-James-Album-Aphex-Twin/dp/B008RZ0KL4/

Aphex Twin, arr. Jonathan Newman
Fingerbib
Alarm Will Sound
Alan Pierson, conductor
Cantaloupe 21028
http://www.amazon.com/Alarm-Will-Sound-Performs-Aphex/dp/B0009XT8KQ/

Produced by WGTE Public Media with sponsorship from the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music. More information at http://www.wgte.org/newmusic.

LIVING AMERICAN COMPOSERS: NEW MUSIC FROM BOWLING GREEN is distributed internationally by The WFMT Radio Network. More information at http://www.wfmt.com/main.taf?p=12,2,17.

In Residence: Alarm Will Sound

Listen to the opening eight minutes of NMBG Episode #7, "Mozart Recomposed." Karen and Jeffrey Savage (the 88Squared Piano Duo) introduce their new recording of Lowell Liebermann's "Variations on a Theme by Mozart," Op. 42.

http://www.88squaredpianoduo.com/

More about "Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green" at http://www.wgte.org/newmusic


Mozart Recomposed: Opening Segment

Composer Max Richter discusses his "Sleep" project, an 8-hour suite of music designed to be listened to while sleeping. An excerpt from "The UK Edition" episode of "Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green," a radio series from The WFMT Network and WGTE Public Media. Photo credit: Mike Terry.

Max Richter talks about "Sleep"

Listen to the first five minutes of #NMBG Episode 16-09, featuring composer/guitarist Paul Dresher and his Double Duo Ensemble.

MUSIC CLIPS:
"Slow Fire (an electric opera)": 'Sleeping with the light on'
Paul Dresher Ensemble with Rinde Eckert
MinMax Music 10
http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Fire-An-Electric-Opera/dp/B00004YWU3

"Glimpsed from Afar" (excerpt)
Paul Dresher, quadrachord; Joel Davel, marimba lumina

Visit Paul's website: http://www.dresherensemble.org/
Photo credit: Nina Roberts

MBG 16-09: Paul Dresher Double Duo - The First Five Minutes

Pianist Michael Mizrahi introduces a track from his new CD "Currents": Missy Mazzoli's "Heartbreaker" for solo acoustic piano. As heard in Episode 16-10 of "Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green," distributed internationally by The WFMT Radio Network. (Photo credit: Steven Taylor)

Michael Mizrahi Website: http://www.michaelmizrahipiano.com/
NMBG Radio Series Website: http://www.wgte.org/newmusic/

Michael Mizrahi on Missy Mazzoli's "Heartbreaker"

Composer Evan Chambers introduces his "Polka Nation" for wind band. Excerpted from episode no. 16-11 of the syndicated radio series "Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green." Produced by WGTE Public Media, hosted by Brad Cresswell. Part of The WFMT Radio Network.

More about Evan Chambers: http://www.evanchambers.net/
More about the radio series: http://www.wgte.org/newmusic

Photo credit: Myra Klarman

Composer Evan Chambers introduces Polka Nation

Composer Mason Bates introduces his Jurassic-themed Violin Concerto, written for violinist Ann Akiko Meyers. As heard in episode 16-12 of "Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green." A radio series devoted to living American composers, produced by WGTE Public Media and distributed internationally by the WFMT Radio Network. Hosted by Brad Cresswell.

Buy this music on Amazon --> http://www.amazon.com/American-Masters-Anne-Akiko-Meyers/dp/B00M574ER6
http://www.masonbates.com/
http://www.wgte.org/newmusic/
Photo Credit: Todd Rosenberg

Mason Bates introduces his Violin Concerto

University of Michigan composer and BGSU alumnus Evan Chambers takes us a personal tour of his extraordinary cantata "The Old Burying Ground" – a setting of simple yet powerful texts taken from old epitaphs, which are paired with modern poems.

Musical Selections:

Introduction & ‘And Pass From Hence Away’
‘Nancy Eliza,’ ‘Pompeii,’ & ‘Emma’
‘O Say Grim Death’ 
‘A Bar So Pure,’ ‘Uncut Grass,’ & ‘O Drop On My Grave’
‘Paths of Peace’

Performers: Tim Eriksen, folksinger; Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor/University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra/Kiesler

From CD: Dorian Sono Luminus DSL 92113 - order online at http://www.sonoluminus.com/p-40-the-old-burying-ground.aspx

Excerpts from "The Old Burying Ground" posted with the permission of Evan Chambers and Sono Luminus. Copyrights to the music samples are held by their respective owners and may not be reproduced or posted elsewhere without express permission.

Focus on: Evan Chambers

For the last 35 years, hundreds of composers, performers, and lovers of contemporary music have descended annually on a small college town in Northwest Ohio for a singular event: the New Music Festival at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). Home to the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, BGSU also sponsors a multi-venue concert series called Music at the Forefront, which shines a spotlight on new and exciting young performers.

Produced by WGTE Public Media and hosted by Brad Cresswell, New Music from Bowling Green features live concert recordings from the New Music Festival and Music at the Forefront, alongside the commercial discography of related composers, alumni, and BGSU faculty. Designed with the mainstream classical listener in mind, the program features audience-friendly works that are introduced by their respective composers and performers.

This season we focus on BGSU residencies with composers David Lang and Jennifer Higdon; composer Paul Dresher and his Double Duo, and contemporary music groups Alarm Will Sound and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). We also visit our “neighbors to the north” with two programs from University of Michigan composers, and we explore the professional and personal dynamics between some high-profile classical couples—including veteran composer Sam Adler and his wife, conductor Emily Freeman-Brown.

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