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Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Wanting to Believe (Oh Holy Night)
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Peter Gregson - Taladh Chriosta
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Vikingur Olafsson - Sleep for Mama - Faru a sofa fyrir mig (Icelandic Folk Song)
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Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher - Jezus Malusieńki (Rework by Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher)
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Balmorhea - Coventry Carol
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Mari Samuelsen - Mitt hjerte alltid vanker (Arr. for Solo Violin and Ensemble)
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Ane Brun - Lo! How a Rose Eer Blooming / Es ist ein Rose entsprungen
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Dustin O'Halloran & Bryan Senti - What Gently Flutters
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ABBOTT - Nu Zijt Wellekome
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Vanbur - Carol Of The Bells
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Classical Sundays - Maoz Tzur (Winter Tales Version)
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Joep Beving - Sinfonia
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Deutsche Grammophonpresents Winter Tales features music from some of the label's star composers, who were invited to reimagine the music of Christmas and Chanukah, drawing inspiration from their childhoods and homelands. The album of 12 very personal responses to that creative challenge, all of which have something fresh and timely to say about winter's promise of renewal and light's power over darkness. The album opens with Roger and Brian Eno's Wanting to Believe – a brand new vocal track from the duo and the perfect prelude to music by composers as diverse as Peter Gregson, Víkingur Ólafsson, Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher, Balmorhea, Mari Samuelsen, Ane Brun, Dustin O'Halloran and Bryan Senti, ABBOTT, Vanbur, Classical Sundays and Joep Beving.
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ECM artists 'Dream of the Masters' playlist makes JAZZIZ: The Week in Jazz
Posted At : November 22, 2021 12:00 AM
JAZZIZ: MATT MICUCCI writes.....ECM Artists "Dream of the Masters" in New Playlist: ECM Records has shared a new curated playlist on media streaming platforms featuring music by artists associated with the label paying tributes to jazz's great creators, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and more. The playlist is titled "Dreaming of the Masters" and features 70 trac...
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Jazz Crusader - Stix Hooper set to host on 88.1KJAZZ - Los Angeles
Posted At : November 16, 2021 12:00 AM
eurweb's A. Scott Galloway writes.....Best known as an original member of the pioneering band The Jazz Crusaders (later The Crusaders), Nesbert "Stix" Hooper has enjoyed an illustrious career as a musician, composer, record producer, artist manager, the first national Vice Chairman of the national Academy of recording Arts and Sciences (an unprecedented three terms with that Grammy organization) and ...
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New Orleans Public Radio expands classical network / Current
Posted At : November 12, 2021 12:00 AM
Current's Tyler Falk writes.....New Orleans Public Radio will swap news and entertainment for all-classical programming on KTLN, its station in the Houma-Thibodaux area. The format change goes into effect Tuesday. KTLN 90.5 FM currently airs a simulcast of news and entertainment programming from WWNO 89.9 FM, the organization's flagship signal originating from New Orleans. "We've heard from...
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'Winter Tales.' All star cast for Christmas album inspired by childhoods and homelands / udiscovermusic.
Posted At : November 5, 2021 12:00 AM
udiscovermusic. Sharon Kelly writes......Winter Tales is a new album featuring Christmas music reimagined by star musicians inspired by their childhoods and homelands. The album includes 12 very personal and diverse reflections from Roger and Brian Eno, Peter Gregson, Víkingur Ólafsson, Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher, Balmorhea, Mari Samuelsen, Ane Brun, Dustin O'Halloran and Bryan Senti, A...
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Music historians and computer scientists team up to complete Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony / The 74
Posted At : October 25, 2021 12:00 AM
@RutgersU @soljourno - The 74 writes......When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, due to deteriorating health, wasn't able to make much headway: All he left behind were some musical sketches. Ever since then, Beethoven fans and musi...
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Why improvisation is the future in an AI-dominated world / newswise
Posted At : October 22, 2021 12:00 AM
Rich Pellegrin is an assistant professor of Music Theory and affiliate assistant professor in the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Florida. He writes.....In his autobiography, Miles Davis complained that classical musicians were like robots. He spoke from experience – he'd studied classical music at Juilliard and recorded with classical musicians even after...
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88.1KJAZZ adds Rhonda Hamilton to their on-air lineup
Posted At : October 12, 2021 12:00 AM
All Access Charese Frugé wites.....GLOBAL JAZZ, INC. noncommercial Jazz KKJZ (KJAZZ 88.1 FM)/LONG BEACH-LOS ANGELES has added NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO Jazz WBGO/NEWARK-NEW YORK "SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT" host and NPR Jazz host RHONDA HAMILTON, for middays 11a-3p (PT). GM SAUL LEVINE said, "We are thrilled to have Ms. HAMILTON to join the KJAZZ family, bringing with her decades of extensive experience produ...
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90.7WGXC - Situation Fluxus interviews Crossover Media
Posted At : September 29, 2021 12:00 AM
Produced by Cheryl K., this broadcast from 90.7WGXC - Situation Fluxus is a conversation with the members of Crossover Media – Max Horowitz, Amanda Bloom, and Zachary Swanson – plus music and an interview with Columbia County guitarist, educator, and composer Joe Finn. Listen to the interview A weekly one-hour program focused on jazz and improvised music, news, radio, conversations, a...
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WRTI's Debra Lew Harder is the new host of Metropolitan Opera broadcasts / The Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted At : September 20, 2021 12:00 AM
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Peter Dobrin writes......When the Metropolitan Opera's international radio series resumes this season, the voice of its new host will sound familiar to Philadelphians. Debra Lew Harder, the popular WRTI-FM (90.1) classical personality, is leaving Temple's radio station to become only the fifth host in the history of the Met radio broadcasts. Tuesday is her last day on the ...
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A Malcolm X opera will come to the Met / The New York Times
Posted At : September 16, 2021 12:00 AM
Anthony Davis's "X," which premiered in the 1980s, will be revived in New York in fall 2023. The New York Times - Zachary Woolfe writes.....It took 138 years for the Metropolitan Opera to present its first work by a Black composer: Terence Blanchard's "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," which opens its season on Sept. 27. But the second will arrive in just two years, the company announced on Thursday. An...
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Crossover Media - June 2021 New Releases
Posted At : June 17, 2021 12:00 AM
Welcome to Crossover Media's June New Releases. Well, June is busting out all over and Max Horowitz, Amanda Bloom and Zach Swanson discuss some great recordings that Crossover Media is working this month. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST We start with a title which we talked about a little last month but did not review, the new IMPULSE! RECORDS album from Sons of Kemet……..'Black ...
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Months in the making, k-Mozart re-launches / Los Angeles Daily News
Posted At : May 5, 2021 12:00 AM
Los Angeles Daily News - RICHARD WAGONER writes.....Did I say months? Actually, it was over a year. Owner Saul Levine has been planning this since before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic but put it off due to the problems that came about over the past year. At one time, it was to be exclusively on the app and on the HD signal that is available with a special tuner on 105.1 HD4. Since that time, the...
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CS Score Interviews Fargo Composer Jeff Russo / COMINGSOON.net
Posted At : April 30, 2021 12:00 AM
COMINGSOON.net - JEFF AMES writes....Welcome to a special edition of CS Score, soundtrack lovers! This week we're jumping right to the chase to get to our amazing interviews with Jeff Russo, composer of hit shows such as Fargo, Star Trek: Picard, Lucifer, For All Mankind and Clarice, among many others. We also got a chance to speak with composer Osei Essed, who has worked on the documentaries Accept the ...
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Pianist & KALW radio host; Sarah Cahill announces virtual performances / BroadwayWorld
Posted At : February 16, 2021 12:00 AM
BroadwayWorld writes......Sarah Cahill, described as "a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde" by The New York Times, announces two virtual events in March 2021, including concerts presented by the San Francisco Symphony's SFSymphony+ Soundbox series and the Community School of Music & Arts. Cahill has commissioned and premiered over sixty compositions for...
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Michigan's 101.7RadioFreeHillsdale gives students room to explore their passions / The Collegian
Posted At : February 11, 2021 12:00 AM
The Collegian's Alexis Daniels writes....Though radio in Hillsdale has only been around for five years, its production range has grown significantly, and they now broadcast a variety of radio shows appealing to many crowds. These radio shows range from news broadcasts to podcasts to features. Junior Christine Talent, who joined radio just last semester, started with newscasting and has just...
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Verve/UMe Acoustic Sounds Vinyl Reissues make JAZZIZ: The Week in Jazz
Posted At : February 1, 2021 12:00 AM
JAZZIZ' MATT MICUCCI writes....The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz world. It's a one-stop destination for the music news you need to know. Let's take it from more Verve/UMe Acoustic Sounds Vinyl Reissues. Verve/UMe have reissued two more great albums as part of their acclaimed Acoustic Sounds audiophile reissue series. They are Clifford Brown and Max Roach...
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'The WBGO Story - Bright Moments from Newark to the World' makes JAZZIZ: The Week in Jazz
Posted At : February 1, 2021 12:00 AM
JAZZIZ' MATT MICUCCI writes....The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz world. It's a one-stop destination for the music news you need to know.
A new documentary celebrating four decades of WBGO, the Newark-based jazz station, premiered at the New Jersey Film Festival on January 30, and hopes for wider distribution by the end of 2021. The WBG...
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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation launches jazz media lab with 5 leaders in jazz radio
Posted At : January 28, 2021 12:00 AM
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) today announced the launch of the Jazz Media Lab, through which some of the country's most dynamic and forward-thinking nonprofit jazz radio stations will receive more than $1.3 million to participate in a program aimed at bolstering their individual strength and collective resilience as essential players in the jazz ecosystem. KMHD (Oregon Public Broadcasting)...
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Ed O'Keefe is the CBS news white house correspondent who came to play / 98.7WFMT Q&A
Posted At : January 20, 2021 12:00 AM
WFMT: Chicago 's Candice Agree writes....From the age of 3, CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe toiled at a keyboard-not in typing, as unintended preparation for his 13 years at the Washington Post, but in studying classical piano in Delmar, a suburb of Albany, NY. Although he loved playing, his interest in current events and politics pulled him into a journalism career. No stranger to Chicag...
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GoFundMe campaign launched to help save NYC's Birdland / BroadwayWorld
Posted At : January 3, 2021 12:00 AM
BroadwayWorld writes.......Yet another one of New York's most beloved venues is in danger of closing for good. Birdland Jazz Club, a staple of the New York City jazz community since 1949, needs help with the debt it has found itself in due to the health crisis. A GoFundMe campaign was launched by Tom D'Angora, who also spearheaded the efforts to save the West Bank Cafe in December 2020. "Shortly ...
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I'd like to extend a sincere apology heavenward to Ludwig van Beethoven for what has to be the worst birthday ever. Happy belated 250th / Washington Post
Posted At : December 24, 2020 12:00 AM
I cannot imagine what a celestial-level bummer it must be to spend more than two centuries hovering around the ether, waiting for your big sestercentennial bash to pop off and take over the planet, only to have the whole thing called off at the last minute. So before we go any further, on behalf of Earth, its people and all of our germs, I'd like to extend a sincere apology heavenward to one Ludwig v...
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105.9WQXR celebrates Beethoven's BIG 2-5-0
Posted At : December 12, 2020 12:00 AM
The year 2020 started with massive expectations for the memory of Ludwig van Beethoven, the wild-haired and scowling composer whose cantankerous visage was seemingly at odds with the enduring humanity and optimism of his music. But all of our lives were forced to take a hard left, putting many a plan - Beethoven-graced or otherwise - on indefinite hold. So we wondered: How do we pull off The Big 2-5-0 in...
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98.7WFMT: Chicago welcomes two new voices to their roster
Posted At : December 3, 2020 12:00 AM
WFMT is excited to welcome two new voices to our host roster! Allow us to introduce you to Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Payton, who join as fill-in hosts. "I've listened to WFMT for as long as I can remember," Kristina Lynn recalls. Growing up listening to WFMT with her family in the Chicago suburbs, she was moved to pick up the trumpet herself. As a performer with the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, s...
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Sony Music Masterworks and Wise Music Group launch strategic partnership / Music Week
Posted At : December 3, 2020 12:00 AM
Sony Music Masterworks and Wise Music Group have announced a new strategic partnership to identify and sign top artist and composer talent. Sony Music Masterworks and Wise Music will work together to sign new writers in the broad-based classical genre to recording and publishing agreements that allow both companies to apply their respective strengths to the development of multi-faceted and long-term care...
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Wolfgang is back, Bach is back, KMZT1260 is back, K-Mozart is back
Posted At : November 30, 2020 12:00 AM
Mount Wilson FM announces new digital hybrid technology on KMZT AM 1260 to revive classical radio in Los Angeles and Southern California. 62 years ago Mount Wilson launched classical music on 105.1 FM when less than 25% of homes had FM receivers. Industry experts dismissed it as futile. December 1st, 2020 Mount Wilson again swims against the tide with the assistance of digital technology to re-launch...
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CapRadio's Gary Vercelli tells how it all started with 'Kind of Blue' and LA's KBCA
Posted At : November 18, 2020 12:00 AM
Watch the video Read the transcript - I'm Gary Vercelli and I am celebrating my 40th year as JMD here at Cap Radio in Sacramento. One day back in the 60's I was walking down Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. A small record store had a speaker posted on the street. I heard the cool modal sounds of Miles Davis beaming over that little speaker. Paul Chambers bass line pulled me into that store like a moth ...
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Deutsche Grammophon celebrates Beethoven 250 / udiscovermusic.com
Posted At : November 18, 2020 12:00 AM
On 17 December 2020 the world will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. As part of an ambitious year-long anniversary campaign Deutsche Grammophon and their artists will celebrate Beethoven 250 with a wide range of projects, digital concerts, and innovative releases on and around the composer's birthday including: Deutsche Grammophon has recorded more of Beethoven's m...
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Building multiplatform radio. WGBH drops the W / RADIOWORLD
Posted At : November 18, 2020 12:00 AM
Beyond Broadcast: GBH: Boston general manager Pam Johnston discusses how to pivot to multiplatform radio Like all of our stations east of the Mississippi River, GBH's radio and TV call letters started with a "W." WGBH recently rebranded to GBH to reflect the growing reality of the digital era beyond broadcast. Today, more than half of GBH's total impressions are digital. As the world moves from ...
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KING-FM has a new home with the Seattle Opera / RADIOWORLD
Posted At : November 15, 2020 12:00 AM
KING-FM had occupied its studios in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle for more than two decades when its landlord informed management that the building would be torn down for condos. The station began looking for a new long-term home. Meanwhile the Seattle Opera had just moved into a new nearby building on the Seattle Center campus near the Space Needle, a building with multiple performanc...
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The Hollywood Reporter ranks top 20 U.S. music schools for film and tv composing
Posted At : November 10, 2020 12:00 AM
Every year, THR surveys industry professionals to get their take on the world's finest institutions of musical learning, and in particular how they stack up in terms of positioning composers and musicians for jobs in media. This year, however, the focus is on COVID-19 and the challenges it has presented, including limiting the number of players who can perform student compositions. "We're trying ...
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LA radio titan Saul Levine fires up HD-AM with 1260K-Surf / Radio & Television Business Report
Posted At : October 30, 2020 12:00 AM
With swift approval, the FCC this week gave the green light to the voluntary transition to all-digital HD Radio transmissions for AM radio stations across the U.S. This may not lead many broadcasters to fully abandon their analog broadcasts, but it has prompted one radio station owner to move forward with a hybrid signal - a move that brings kHz-based HD Radio to greater Los Angeles. On Thursday afte...
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98.7WFMT's Candice Agree gives us 'Some Scary Celluloid Pianists for Halloween'
Posted At : October 28, 2020 12:00 AM
"Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine." ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The human hand: its fingers, bones, muscles, and more give us the ability to add a pinch of salt, play any number of musical instruments, change a tire, flip a pancake, and so much else. That our hands have the capacity to perform ...
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Mt. Wilson Broadcasters; Saul Levine donates a silent AM / Radio & Television Business Report
Posted At : October 7, 2020 12:00 AM
When it comes to independent radio broadcasters in major U.S. markets, Saul Levine is one of the last men standing. His Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters continues to own and operate properties in Los Angeles, and until now his station roster included a silent AM serving the Monterey Bay area. Levine is now donating the facility. Saul Levine was born in Cheboygan, Michigan, and attended the University of Mi...
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What's the best way to introduce classical music to those that are not already fans? / ABC - Australia
Posted At : August 20, 2020 12:00 AM
Those of us who love classical music naturally want to share that love with others, but what's the best way to introduce someone to classical music when they're not already a fan? With 1,000 years of music to choose from, starting out can be a bit overwhelming. Some research suggests people prefer music they're familiar with so you could start with something similar to the music they already like, or...
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New York Public Radio selects Edward Yim to lead WQXR
Posted At : August 6, 2020 12:00 AM
New York Public Radio (NYPR), home of WNYC, Gothamist, WNYC Studios, WQXR, and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, announced today that Edward Yim has been named Chief Content Officer for WQXR, New York City's classical music station. His appointment will take effect on September 28th. In this role, Yim will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategic vision that helps WQXR rea...
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Beethoven graphic novel celebrates composer's 250th birthday / udiscovermusic.
Posted At : July 17, 2020 12:00 AM
A new Beethoven graphic novel reimagining the life of the legendary composer through striking new visuals will be published in November. Z2 Comics and Deutsche Grammophon have announced a new Beethoven graphic novel, The Final Symphony: A Beethoven Anthology, will be published in November, a month before the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth in December. The Final Symphony: A Beethoven Anthol...
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