SONiC Portrait: Marcos Balter
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticleSONiC Portrait: Susie Ibarra
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticleSONiC Portrait: Matt Marks
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticleSONiC Portrait: Bryce Dessner
Featuring over 100 composers under the age of 40, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC (Sounds of a New Century) Festival is energizing New York with a stellar kickoff to the season – eight days of...
View ArticleThe Space Between
“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.” Can you guess which composer spoke...
View ArticleNotes from the Road: Wish You Were Here
Hey friends! I'm on a plane, tapping this out mid-boarding. We're flying from Keflavík, Iceland back to JFK. I've been in various locales for the past couple of weeks (South Carolina, Frankfurt,...
View ArticleThe Return of Scarves
The weather, it seems, has finally broken and the Fall is truly upon us. Hooray Autumn!! All the various ensembles are starting back up post summer hiatuses, we get to enjoy un-iced coffee, and I...
View ArticleToo Raucous for Radio?
There must be some deep-seated, funny, psychologically-sound logic behind the release of big-budget disaster films during the hottest months. For whatever reason, there seems no more appropriate course...
View ArticleMagic with Everyday Objects: The Music of Missy Mazzoli
Well it has certainly been a minute! I’m thrilled to be back hosting brand-spanking-new episodes of the show, and I can think of no better homecoming than a week of Q2 Music programming inspired by...
View ArticleBounteous Birthday Bashes
So I haven'texactlybeenshy about my love of the holidays. This is probably due, in no small part, to the fact that my birthday is around this time of year. Festively motivated, for the show this week I...
View ArticleUnsilent Night: A Holiday Cacophony
New York has wonderful holiday traditions, but maybe none so awesome as Unsilent Night, Phil Kline's piece essentially for holiday carolers holding boomboxes who form an amorphous, directional sound...
View ArticleLet's Make CONTACT!
One of Alan Gilbert’s loveliest initiatives as the music director of the New York Philharmonic these past three seasons has been the CONTACT! series, dedicated to living composers and new works. This...
View ArticleMichael Tilson Thomas and John Adams in The Greene Space
On Monday, March 26 at 7 pm, Q2 Music celebrates America’s great iconoclastic composers when San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas brings his “American Mavericks” tour to New...
View ArticleA Polish Music Festival Overview
From January 16 to 22, 2012, Q2 Music presents Muzyka Nowa -- a multifaceted immersion in the sounds of contemporary Polish new music, featuring two 24-hour marathons, live Warsaw Autumn Festival...
View ArticleAll That Glitters
"It's almost Friday night. Outside, the dark is getting darker and the cold is getting colder. Inside, lights are coming on in houses and apartment buildings. And here and there, uptown and downtown...
View ArticleOne-Day-Only, Miniature, Year-End Pledge Drive
TEN! NINE! EIGHT! SEVEN! SIX! Wait wait!! We’re not quite there yet!! We still have a few precious moments left of 2011, and even more pertinently, just a few more days left until the twenty eleven...
View ArticleWelcome to The Future!
Hey there, 2012, you’re looking mighty fine! Every time I cross the threshold of a new year, I cannot help but think of it as a mild miracle of time travel. Remember the first time, in grade school, a...
View ArticleComposers Speak Out!
This is a really special week on the show. While I know you’ve become accustomed to my riffs on the providence of music written by people who are still alive, this week we get to hear about everything...
View ArticleTitans of Polish Music: Past, Present, and Future
It may sound kind of obvious, but one of the perks of working at this station is constantly being exposed to new music. This week, we are celebrating Polish music from the past 50 years or so in our...
View ArticleThe Year of the Dragon
Kung Hei Fat Choi! When I was in kindergarten, my super awesome teachers Ms. Danielson and Ms. Doane had us bring in paper bags, in which we cut holes three holes (a big one in the very bottom and two...
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