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From Cuba, Dafnis Prieto's revolutionary drumming techniques and compositions have had a powerful impact on the music landscape, nationally and internationally. His various awards and honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, a GRAMMY Award for Back to the Sunset (2018), two additional GRAMMY nominations, two Latin GRAMMY nominations (including Best New Artist in 2007), and the Jazz Journalists Association's Up & Coming Musician of the Year in 2006. As a composer, Prieto has created music for dance, film, chamber ensembles, and most notably for his own bands, ranging from duets to big bands. He has received commissions, grants, and fellowships from Chamber Music America, Princeton University, Jazz at Lincoln Center, MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, Jerome Foundation, East Carolina University, Painted Bride Art Center, Meet The Composer, WNYC, New Music USA, Hazard Productions, and Metropole Orkest, among others. Prieto has performed at many national and international music festivals as a bandleader. Since his 1999 arrival in New York, he has also worked in bands led by Michel Camilo, Chucho and Bebo Valdés, Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Chico and Arturo O'Farrill, Dave Samuels and the Caribbean Jazz Project, Jane Bunnett, D.D. Jackson, Edward Simon, Roy Hargrove, Don Byron, and Andrew Hill, among others. Also a gifted educator, Prieto has conducted numerous master classes, clinics, and workshops around the world. He was on the jazz studies faculty at New York University from 2005 to 2014, and in 2015 joined the faculty of the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. In 2016, Prieto published the groundbreaking analytical and instructional drum book, A World of Rhythmic Possibilities. In 2020, he published Rhythmic Synchronicity, a book for non-drummers inspired by a course of the same name that Prieto developed at the Frost School of Music. In 2025 he released the book "WHAT ARE THE ODDS" the third book in his catalog, and it shows not only his passion for rhythm and drumming but furthermore his commitment to music education at large. This one takes you to a fascinating journey of rhythms and meters. The book features 519 examples, and each of them comes with an audio track and a video clip. He is the founder of the independent music company Dafnison Music, established in 2008. In this episode Dafnis talks about: Building a career on your own terms Teaching at Frost School of Music at Miami University His new book: “What are the Odds” Asking tough questions about tradition as it relates to Latin music Allowing patterns and phrasing to dictate the time feel Valuing the content you play over the ability to play with a click Here's our PatreonHere's our YoutubeHere's our Homepage

Today on the show I get to sit down with Galen Joseph-Hunter. She has served as Executive Director of Wave Farm since 2002. Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. Wave Farm cultivates creative practices in radio and supports artists and nonprofits in their cultural endeavors. Based in New York's Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a media arts center, arts service organization, and media outlet operating WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears.Over the past two decades, she has organized and curated numerous exhibitions and events internationally, including "Wave Farm (in residence)" for TuftsPUBLIC at the Tufts University Art Galleries (2018-2019).She was the co-organizer of “Groundswell” an annual exhibition event featuring broadcast, performance, sound, and installation works by contemporary artists conceived within the 250 acres of the Olana State Historic Site from 2013 to 2015.In 2015 and 2016 she curated the Columbia University Sound Arts MFA spring exhibitions.She has produced numerous radio programs for Wave Farm's WGXC and stations internationally including "Climactic Climate" for Kunstradio Vienna (2015).In 2019 and 2020, she organized and led the "Radio for Open Ears" workshop series with 16 and 17 year-olds incarcerated in the Hudson Correctional Facility through CreativityWorksNYS.Galen is the author of the book “Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves” (PAJ Publications: 2011,) as well as "Transmission Arts: the air that surrounds us" (PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, September 2009: MIT Press).Previously, Galen worked closely with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), serving as Assistant Director and then Executive Consultant and now sits on their advisory board. She is the administrator of Regrant Programs with the New York State Council on the Arts and has served as a panelist/reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Experimental Television Center, Meet The Composer, New Music USA, Harpo Foundation, and the Greene County Council for the Arts, among others. Galen also lends her time on the Board of Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood, the Board of Montez Press Radio and is a founding Board Member of New Ear Inc, a New York City-based organization formed in 2024 in response to the energy and success of the New Ear Festival and the spatial sound series CT::SWaM.We get to speak about all of the inspiring work Wavefarm is connected with and supporting including the expanding work in correctional facilities, the newly announced residencies for 2025 and a special upcoming event on May 29th at Hi-Way Drive-In Theatre, Coxsackie, NY featuring Eno on 4 Screens + Fred Frith+ Eucademix (Yuka Honda). We get a peak into Galen's personal life and how turning 50 has her reflecting.Here's your Mystic Mamma Neptune in Aries wisdom and Tanaaz's report on this big shift into Aries.Today's show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.Our show music is from Shana Falana!Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IThttp://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFYITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCAFollow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast

Back in Episode 183, you learned all about "Sing Democracy 250" - where did the idea come from, who is behind it, and why should it matter to you and your singing communities? Today is our second installment of meet the composer, where you get to hear from the commissioned composers who are writing the two new works just for the project. Check out episode 186 for part 1. Today, we're speaking with Dr. Brandon A. Boyd. In case you missed it, you can now apply to be one of the choirs participating in Sing Democracy 250! All you have to do is pop over to their website and submit an application. It is free and as long as you are a 501c3 and commit to perform the music between March 1 and December 31 of 2026, they will send you the music discussed in today's episode, along with the rest of the program, for free! Learn more and apply today at https://www.singdemocracy250.org/.You can also watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R7c-W8sHxCs Sign up for the newsletter to stay up to date in all things related to this project at https://www.singdemocracy250.org/.Looking for more "Sing Democracy 250" details? Check these details:Jonah Herzog (SD250 Program Associate) - jonah@singdemocracy250.orgTina Sayers (SD250 - 50 States Program Director) - tina@singdemocracy250.orgListeners can also contact our team by emailing info@singdemocracy250.orgwith regards from Gary Aamodt and Celia Ellingson (co-founders)Website - singdemocracy250.org / Facebook / Instagram - @singdemocracy250This episode was brought to you by our friends at Perform International. Tons of fabulous trips you can join in or plan one from scratch. Check them out at https://perform-international.com/.Want to support the Music (ed) Matters Podcast AND get a special patron only bonus episode each month? Check out https://www.patreon.com/musicedmatters.

commissioned composers who are writing the two new works just for the project. Today we talk with composer Michael Bussewitz-Quarm (https://www.listenafresh.com/). Great news! You can now apply to be one of the choirs participating in Sing Democracy 250. All you have to do is pop over to their website and submit an application. It is free and as long as you are a 501c3 and commit to perform the music between March 1 and December 31 of 2026, they will send you the music discussed in today's episode, along with the rest of the program, for free! Learn more and apply today at https://www.singdemocracy250.org/.You can also watch this episode on YouTube:https://youtu.be/ysL70GGGjhU Sign up for the newsletter to stay up to date in all things related to this project at https://www.singdemocracy250.org/.Looking for more "Sing Democracy 250" details? Check these details:Jonah Herzog (SD250 Program Associate) - jonah.herzog@gmail.comTina Sayers (SD250 - 50 States Program Director) - tina@mapleseedcc.comwith regards from Gary Aamodt and Celia Ellingson (co-founders)Website - singdemocracy250.org / Facebook / Instagram - @singdemocracy250This episode was brought to you by our friends at Perform International. Tons of fabulous trips you can join in or plan one from scratch. Check them out at https://perform-international.com/.Want to support the Music (ed) Matters Podcast AND get a special patron only bonus episode each month? Check out https://www.patreon.com/musicedmatters.

Soyo Oka walks us through her journey from studying classical music to calling up Nintendo looking for a gig.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

This week's guest, Caroline Mallonee, joined Rockabilly Greg In the Flamingo Lounge on January 25, 2024 for a fascinating conversation on her musical compositions. Caroline is an award-winning composer and performer based in Buffalo, NY. Inspired by scientific phenomena, visual art, and musical puzzles, she has been commissioned to write new pieces for prominent ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Spektral Quartet, Firebird Ensemble, Present Music, Wet Ink Ensemble, Antares, PRISM Quartet, Ciompi Quartet, Ethos Percussion, and the Buffalo Chamber Players, for whom she serves as composer-in-residence.  She has been recognized through commissions and awards from the Fromm Foundation, Meet The Composer, the Jerome Fund for New Music, and ASCAP, from which she received a Morton Gould Young Composers Award.   

Meet musician Colin Stetson the composer for the new movie "The Menu", starring Ralph Fiennes. Stetson masters the art of melding his multi-instrument mastery into one incredible score. Colin talks all things business and being a music maestro.The score for The Menu is an evolution from any other score Stetson has done in the past. The string-forward and percussive music uses grotesque soundscapes and motifs to mirror the psychosis of the main character (Ralph Fiennes).As the narrative builds, Stetson creates unique musical moments, some given only at a specific time and place, and others that weave a thread throughout the film. Rather than creating character themes, he created a theme for the menu that interacts with characters, giving the menu a sense of self; an off-kilter pretension that instigates discomfort in the listener.The film's concept allowed Stetson to use eccentric and experimental instrumentation: playing glasses with chopsticks, hitting tuning forks on Tibetan bowls, using pans as percussion; making the score fit the environment while keeping it separate from the diegetic sounds of the kitchen. He uses his own undulus vocals which clone the full orchestra of strings.“From my first reading of the script to our last moments on the mix stage, my experience creating the music on this film has been an absolute joy, as the themes, refrains, and aesthetic have seemed to jump right off of the page and screen for me with every brilliant turn of phrase, perfect edit, and wickedly delivered performance. It is pure pleasure working with such an incredible team and I am truly grateful for the whole of it,” says Stetson.A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. To Learn more about Colin Stetston Check out his website: https://www.colinstetson.com/Listen to the Stay on Course Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/stay-on-course-ingredients-for-success/ To learn more about Julie Riga and her mission to Stay On Course, visit her website: www.julieriga.comJulie Riga is a certified coach, trainer, speaker and author with over 20 years of experience in the Pharma Industry. Julie's education is vast with studies that include business, communications, training and executive coaching. Julie started on this journey because she had a strong desire to pass on the knowledge and skills passed on to her by her father, Ennio Riga, and inspirational man who taught her how to keep going irrespective of the challenges that life may present you with. Based in New Jersey, Julie have travelled the world supporting corporations, business leaders and individuals on their journey of empowerment and growth.

Each week we have been blessed to hear the first moments of the composition "Open" by Judith Silver. This week we meet her, and learn about how she came to write Jewish music, and how "Open" came to be. A true blessing!

New York City-based composer ED WINDELS is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music, earning both Bachelors and Masters degrees in composition in just three years. He enjoys writing new concert music for all genres and mediums, with a particular fondness for art song. Concurrently his admiration for and experience with the musical theater has resulted in an additional career as an orchestrator and arranger.Ed has been the recipient of a fellowship at the Aspen Summer Music Festival and Meet The Composer grants. Recent commissions include a song cycle for Bargemusic’s Here And Now series, a piano solo piece for his alma mater, Peal Off for Chicago’s Gaudete Brass Quintet, a duo for violas for Michael Hall, and a bass oboe sonata for British reed virtuoso Mikey Sluman.Recently completed projects include a setting for tenor and large orchestra of John Hollander’s Summer Day, and an edition of Richard Strauss’s renownedly large-scale opera Elektra for 32 instruments. A version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, re-arranged and re-orchestrated in a 1920’s jazz idiom, premiered in February 2018 by its commissioner, Edmonton Opera in Alberta, Canada.Connect with Ed!https://www.ed-windels.com/https://www.instagram.com/ed.windels/ https://twitter.com/EdWindels,https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCagEIDikcusnO_SO_YR0lsAhttps://soundcloud.com/ed-windelsContact us here!https://linktr.ee/rachelsandlermusicFor podcast inquiries: aspiringartistpodcast@gmail.comFor music & lessons inquiries: rachelsandlermusic@gmail.com

In this powerful episode, Tarik and Amy discuss music and American history with Brent Michael Davids, composer and co-director of the Lenape Center in Manhattan. An American Indian citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation, his heritage is a major influence on his work. Brent experiments with traditional Native American singing and instruments, always pushing boundaries. In his music, we hear an Apache violin played with bows strung with unsual materials like silk and leather, and a flute made of quartz crystal, which was fabricated at a scientific glass blowing workshop.  To cap it all off, we are treated to a moving preview of his work in progress, Requiem for America, featuring traditional and Native American choirs.Brent Michael Davids has received awards and commissions from ASCAP, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Emmy Awards, US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, Joffrey Ballet, Park City Film Music Festival, Kronos Quartet, National Museum of the American Indian, School for Advanced Research, Chanticleer, Meet-The-Composer, Miró Quartet, National Symphony Orchestra, Bush Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from prestigious Indian Summer Festival.

Rha Goddess is the entrepreneurial soul coach behind hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries and social entrepreneurs. From multiple NY Times Bestsellers to multi-million dollar social enterprises, Rha’s unique methodology has empowered a new generation of conscious entrepreneurs to stay true, get paid, and do good. From the onset of her more than 30-year career as a cultural innovator, social impact strategist and creative change agent, Rha has drawn on the power of creativity, culture and community to move hearts, minds and policy. Rha’s work has focused on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid and restoration, mental health and youth and women’s empowerment and contributed to initiatives that have impacted millions of lives. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, Ms Magazine, Variety, Essence, the Source, Redbook, Forbes, Fast Company and the Chicago Tribune, among others. In 2014, Rha was chosen as a Top 10 Game Changer by Muses & Visionaries Magazine. In 2017 Rha was chosen as one of 50 Founders to watch by Essence Magazine. Additional awards and honors include Meet The Composer, the NPN Creative Fund, a semi-finalist for Do Something’s Brick Award and a two time semi-finalist for Leadership for a Changing World (nominated by Eve Ensler). Please enjoy! Please visit https://nishantgarg.me/podcasts for more info. Follow Nishant: Instagram: instagram.com/garg_nishant Facebook: facebook.com/nishant.garg.5245 https://www.facebook.com/NishantMindfulnessMatters/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-garg-b7a20339/

Rha Goddess is the entrepreneurial soul coach behind hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries and social entrepreneurs. From multiple NY Times Bestsellers to multi-million dollar social enterprises, Rha's unique methodology has empowered a new generation of conscious entrepreneurs to stay true, get paid, and do good. From the onset of her more than 30-year career as a cultural innovator, social impact strategist and creative change agent, Rha has drawn on the power of creativity, culture and community to move hearts, minds and policy. Rha's work has focused on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid and restoration, mental health and youth and women's empowerment and contributed to initiatives that have impacted millions of lives. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, Ms Magazine, Variety, Essence, the Source, Redbook, Forbes, Fast Company and the Chicago Tribune, among others. In 2014, Rha was chosen as a Top 10 Game Changer by Muses & Visionaries Magazine. In 2017 Rha was chosen as one of 50 Founders to watch by Essence Magazine. Additional awards and honors include Meet The Composer, the NPN Creative Fund, a semi-finalist for Do Something's Brick Award and a two time semi-finalist for Leadership for a Changing World (nominated by Eve Ensler).   As a sought-after speaker, Rha has led the conversation around a “whole self” approach to entrepreneurship as key to a more just, harmonious and sustainable economy and culture.  She has presented at SOCAP, Bioneers, SVN, Women Donors Network, High Performance Academy, Equity Now, Netroots Nation, TedX BroadStreet, Emerging Women, Women and Power, S.H.E. Summit and more.  As CEO of Move The Crowd, Rha is galvanizing a movement of 3 Million entrepreneurs dedicated to re-imagining “work” as a vehicle for creative expression, financial freedom and societal transformation. Rha's upcoming book, The Calling (St. Martin's Press) leverages her unique methodology into a step by step blueprint for finding your purpose and making your most profitable contribution.  www.movethecrowd.me.   There was so much goodness in this conversation and I highly recommend her book, The Calling, which goes over much of what we discussed. Here, my beloved soul seekers, is a summary of the nuggets from Rha herself. Things We Learned From This Episode We don't wake up arrived...life truly is a journey of uncovering you, your inner purpose and gifts and finding the clarity and confidence to fully self express as your highest potential. Intuition is everything. The more impact you want to make in the world, the more stillness and grounding you will need. Start by carving out time every day to be still; whether it be a meditation, walking in nature or journaling. This stillness is where you will meet your inner wisdom. Are you willing to believe you don't have to trade anything to live our your purpose and passion? You were born to share your gifts and to make a difference.  Success is about alignment with your soul's purpose, values and mission.    Connect with Rha Goddess Twitter: @truepaidgood Facebook: facebook.com/truepaidgood Instagram: @truepaidgood Website: www.website.com Course: The Calling     Enjoying the show? For iTunes listeners, get automatic downloads and share the love by subscribing, rating & reviewing here!   *Share what you are struggling with or looking to transform with Julie at podcast@juliereisler.com. Julie would love to start covering topics of highest interest to YOU. Please also let us know if you are interested to be a guest on her show to discuss where you are stuck, and do live coaching with Julie on her podcast.   Join host Julie Reisler, author and multi-time TEDx speaker, each week to learn how you can tap into your best self and become your You-est You® to achieve inner peace, happiness and success at a deeper level! Tune in to hear powerful, inspirational stories and expert insights from entrepreneurs, industry thought leaders, and extraordinary human beings that will help to transform your life. Julie also shares a-ha moments that have shaped her life and career, and discusses key concepts from her book Get a PhD in YOU Here's to your being your you-est you!    You-est You Links: Subscribe to the Podcast  Learn more at JulieReisler.com Join The You-est You® Community for Soul Seekers on Facebook Book Julie as a speaker at your upcoming event Amazon #1 Best selling book Get a PhD in YOU Download free guided-meditations from Insight Timer  Julie's Hungry For More Online Program (10 Module Interactive Course)

Rha Goddess is the entrepreneurial soul coach behind hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries and social entrepreneurs. From multiple NY Times Bestsellers to multi-million dollar social enterprises, Rha's unique methodology has empowered a new generation of conscious entrepreneurs to stay true, get paid, and do good. From the onset of her more than 30-year career as a cultural innovator, social impact strategist and creative change agent, Rha has drawn on the power of creativity, culture and community to move hearts, minds, and policy. Rha's work has focused on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid, and restoration, mental health and youth and women's empowerment and contributed to initiatives that have impacted millions of lives. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Variety, Essence, the Source, Redbook, Forbes, Fast Company and the Chicago Tribune, among others. In 2014, Rha was chosen as a Top 10 Game Changer by Muses & Visionaries Magazine. In 2017 Rha was chosen as one of 50 Founders to watch by Essence Magazine. Additional awards and honors include Meet The Composer, the NPN Creative Fund, a semi-finalist for Do Something's Brick Award and a two-time semi-finalist for Leadership for a Changing World (nominated by Eve Ensler). As a sought-after speaker, Rha has led the conversation around a “whole self” approach to entrepreneurship as key to a more just, harmonious and sustainable economy and culture. She has presented at SOCAP, Bioneers, SVN, Women Donors Network, High-Performance Academy, Equity Now, Netroots Nation, TedX BroadStreet, Emerging Women, Women and Power, S.H.E. Summit and more. As CEO of Move The Crowd, Rha is galvanizing a movement of 3 Million entrepreneurs dedicated to re-imagining “work” as a vehicle for creative expression, financial freedom, and societal transformation. Rha's upcoming book, The Calling (St. Martin's Press) leverages her unique methodology into a step by step blueprint for finding your purpose and making your most profitable contribution. What You Will Learn: Rha's new book, “The Calling: 3 Fundamental Shifts to Stay True, Get Paid, and Do Good” How Rha landed a book deal with a major publisher and what it took to get the deal done Rha's company, Move the Crowd and what they do How Rha garnered the attention of publishers and agents How Rha's publishing deal culminated in 8 publishers bidding over 3 rounds How Rha structured her book and why she did it that way Breaking through the myth that you can make a difference and make money How to connect with Rha Goddess: Book: The Calling Website: www.movethecrowd.me Twitter: @truepaidgood Instagram: @truepaidgood Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truepaidgood/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-the-crowd?trk=public_profile_topcard_current_company

Rha Goddess is the entrepreneurial soul coach behind hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries and social entrepreneurs. From multiple NY Times Bestsellers to multi-million dollar social enterprises, Rha’s unique methodology has empowered a new generation of conscious entrepreneurs to stay true, get paid, and do good. From the onset of her more than 30-year career as a cultural innovator, social impact strategist and creative change agent, Rha has drawn on the power of creativity, culture and community to move hearts, minds, and policy. Rha’s work has focused on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid, and restoration, mental health and youth and women’s empowerment and contributed to initiatives that have impacted millions of lives. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Variety, Essence, the Source, Redbook, Forbes, Fast Company and the Chicago Tribune, among others.In 2014, Rha was chosen as a Top 10 Game Changer by Muses & Visionaries Magazine. In 2017 Rha was chosen as one of 50 Founders to watch by Essence Magazine. Additional awards and honors include Meet The Composer, the NPN Creative Fund, a semi-finalist for Do Something’s Brick Award and a two-time semi-finalist for Leadership for a Changing World (nominated by Eve Ensler).As a sought-after speaker, Rha has led the conversation around a “whole self” approach to entrepreneurship as key to a more just, harmonious and sustainable economy and culture. She has presented at SOCAP, Bioneers, SVN, Women Donors Network, High-Performance Academy, Equity Now, Netroots Nation, TedX BroadStreet, Emerging Women, Women and Power, S.H.E. Summit and more. As CEO of Move The Crowd, Rha is galvanizing a movement of 3 Million entrepreneurs dedicated to re-imagining “work” as a vehicle for creative expression, financial freedom, and societal transformation. Rha’s upcoming book, The Calling (St. Martin’s Press) leverages her unique methodology into a step by step blueprint for finding your purpose and making your most profitable contribution.What You Will Learn:Rha’s new book, “The Calling: 3 Fundamental Shifts to Stay True, Get Paid, and Do Good”How Rha landed a book deal with a major publisher and what it took to get the deal doneRha’s company, Move the Crowd and what they doHow Rha garnered the attention of publishers and agentsHow Rha’s publishing deal culminated in 8 publishers bidding over 3 roundsHow Rha structured her book and why she did it that wayBreaking through the myth that you can make a difference and make moneyHow to connect with Rha Goddess:Book: The CallingWebsite: www.movethecrowd.meTwitter: @truepaidgoodInstagram: @truepaidgoodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/truepaidgood/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/move-the-crowd?trk=public_profile_topcard_current_company See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alternative classical composer Phillip Bimstein lives in Salt Lake City and Springdale, Utah, where he served two terms as mayor. A recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, American Composers Forum, Austria’s Prix Ars Electronica and an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Bimstein’s music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Bang on a Can Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Spoleto Festival and London’s Royal Opera House. Bimstein was born in Chicago and is a graduate of Chicago Conservatory of Music, where he majored in theory & composition. In the 1980s he led the new wave band Phil ‘n’ the Blanks, whose three albums and six videos were college radio and MTV hits. After further studies at UCLA in composition, orchestration and conducting, Bimstein took a hiking trip to southern Utah and never left. Fascinated by language and the ability of music to tell a story, he frequently incorporates text in his work. Refuge, his string quartet based on the book by Utah naturalist Terry Tempest Williams, was described as “sublime - elegant perfection” by the Deseret News. In 2005 Bimstein composed Lockdown, a techno tone poem based on the sounds and voices of a youth crisis center in southern Utah. In addition to public concerts, the work is presented as dialogue-promoting outreach to youth detention facilities and prevention programs. In 2006 Bimstein received his second Continental Harmony grant from the American Composers Forum to compose Zion Canyon Song Cycle based on the historical and contemporary stories of his community. Performed by his Americana folk chamber group Red Rock Rondo, it is the subject of an Emmy Award winning PBS -TV music special, which also won Bimstein an Emmy for music composition. In 2011 Bimstein composed a new song cycle for Red Rock Rondo and the Salt Lake Sympony based on the best-selling book by Ted Gup, A Secret Gift. In 2015 the Salt Lake Symphony premiered The Brahma Viharas, a symphony with English horn soloist (Charlotte Bell), which Bimstein composed based on four ancient Buddhist/Yogic contemplative practices that were developed over centuries to cultivate the qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity in the human heart. Bimstein has practiced yoga, the brahma viharas and mindfulness meditation for more than 40 years, and teaches the University of Utah Honors course, “Opening the Mind’s Eye: Contemplative Practice & Higher Education.” Described by Outside Magazine as “America's only all-natural politician-composer,” Bimstein served two terms as Springdale mayor. Due to his successful efforts to bring harmony to his previously divided community, Parade Magazine dubbed Bimstein, “The Man Who Brought Civility Back to Town.” In 2017 Bimstein gave a TEDx Talk about his approach to community: How to Practice Politics with Music in Mind. Bimstein has served as Chair of the Utah Humanities Council (who awarded him the 2009 UHC Alumni Award and the Delmont R. Oswald Fellowship), Vice-President of the American Music Center in New York, and he is profiled in Who’s Who in America. Bimstein designs and teaches an interdisciplinary course in the University of Utah’s Honors College, “Composing a Community,” and he is a frequent keynote speaker on creativity, community and collaboration. Information about Bimstein’s music and other projects can be found at his website: www.bimstein.com

This hour, we're diving deep into the strange, beautiful world of modern music composition.The Producer By Alex Overington for WXQR's *Meet the Composer* (2017) Staff paper and key signatures are great for concertos and sonatas, but the composers in this story don’t think that way… in fact most of them aren’t even sure they should be called composers at all. That includes producer Alex Overington who takes us on a road trip to unravel the creative process of those who write without a score.This episode of Re:sound was produced by Dennis Funk.Music for Re:sound* is provided by Patient Sounds, a private-press record label and book publisher in Chicago. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rha Goddess is the entrepreneurial soul coach behind hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries and social entrepreneurs. From multiple NY Times Bestsellers to multi-million dollar social enterprises, Rha’s unique methodology has empowered a new generation of conscious entrepreneurs to stay true, get paid, and do good. From the onset of her more than 30-year career as a cultural innovator, social impact strategist and creative change agent, Rha has drawn on the power of creativity, culture and community to move hearts, minds and policy.  Rha’s work has focused on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid and restoration, mental health and youth and women’s empowerment. In 2008, she received the National Museum of Voting Rights prestigious Freedom Flame Award and in 2009 she was awarded the Herb Alpert’s Hedgebrook Prize. Later that year, the White House invited her to participate as part of a special delegation of nationally recognized cultural change agents in a national dialogue on civic participation. Also in 2009, Rha was invited to serve as a United States Cultural Envoy to Rwanda.  As a creative change agent, her work has earned critical acclaim from international media such as Time, Interview, Essence, Variety and the Chicago Tribune among others. In 2014, Rha was chosen as a Top 10 Game Changer by Muses and Visionaries Magazine.  Additional awards and honors include Meet The Composer, the NPN Creative Fund, a semi-finalist for Do Something’s Brick Award and a two-time semi-finalist for Leadership for a Changing World (nominated by Eve Ensler).  As CEO of Move The Crowd, Rha is galvanizing a movement of 1 Million entrepreneurs dedicated to re-imagining “work” as a vehicle for creative expression, financial freedom and societal transformation. www.movethecrowd.me. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-ash-cash-show/support

SAG/AFTRA presents another special "Meet The Composer" event. For this event composer John Powell was featured, who has utilized SAG/AFTRA choir members and singers in many of his scores. Before his master class, film music journalist Jon Burlingame sat down with John Powell for this fantastic interview. Watch the master class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqGLRQqChGc filmmusicmedia.comsagaftra.org

Nadia Sirota is Juilliard-trained violist who hosts Meet The Composer, a podcast that shifts the conversation around classical music by featuring interviews with modern-day composers. She’s also worked with artists ranging from Kesha to Paul Simon. Plus, she explains how being on tour led to a love of aquariums, and Nerdette connects her with the Senior Curator of Fishes at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium.

Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota – Q2 Music's podcast about the musical creative process – returns for its third season on Monday, March 6. Pre-game for the new season with a week of clips from the original WNYC radio program. Meet the Composer is available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. We conclude the week-long ramp-up to our next and third season with an interview with the legendary, charismatic Leonard Bernstein. Though mostly known for his work as a composer (West Side Story) and conductor (New York Philharmonic), Leonard Bernstein was also a consummate evangelist for classical music. This conversation focuses on Bernstein's efforts as a music educator and the role that education played for host Tim Page in his music criticism. Hear a piece of music you loved? Discover it here! 0:05—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 0:49—Leonard Bernstein: Overture from Candide | Listen  | Buy1:13—Leonard Bernstein: "Maria," from West Side Story, feat. Jose Carreras | Listen | Buy 2:33—Gioachino Rossini: Overture from William Tell | Listen | Buy2:49—Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story | Listen | Buy 3:44—Leonard Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" | Listen | Buy 6:11—Leonard Bernstein: Suite from Candide | Listen | Buy 7:16—Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront | Listen | Buy 9:12—Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety" | Listen | Buy 10:37—Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety" | Listen | Buy 

Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota – Q2 Music's podcast about the musical creative process – returns for its third season on Monday, March 6. Pre-game for the new season with a week of clips from the original WNYC radio program. Meet the Composer is available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. A blast from the past featuring the composer Libby Larsen. Larsen explains how living in Minneapolis facilitated her success as a composer, and how federal regulations in Title IX provided an uplift to women composers in the U.S. This week, we're revisiting interviews conducted in the 1980s by the influential music critic and educator Tim Page. His show, which aired from 1981 until 1992, was called Meet the Composer and featured some of the most towering musical figures of the previous century. Join us tomorrow for one more throwback episode, and stay tuned on Monday for the premiere of Meet the Composer's third season. Hear a piece of music you loved? Discover it here! 0:05—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 1:05—Aaron Copland: Hoedown | Listen | Buy 1:09—Paul Simon: I Know What I Know | Listen | Buy 1:27—Kaija Saariaho: Nymphea | Listen | Buy 1:39—Julius Eastman: Stay On It | Listen | Buy 1:48—Libby Larsen: Barn Dances | Listen | Buy 4:34—Virgil Thomson: Autumn, Promenade | Listen 6:47—Libby Larsen: Full Moon in the City | Listen | Buy 

Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota – Q2 Music's podcast about the musical creative process – returns for its third season on Monday, March 6. Pre-game for the new season with a week of clips from the original WNYC radio program. Meet the Composer is available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Today's blast from the past features the composers and electronic experimentalists Alvin Lucier and Otto Luening. Page introduces us to Lucier's seminal tape piece, I am sitting in a room, and Luening tells the story of his first foray into electronic composition. Luening also wonders at the interest a younger generation has taken in his very earliest music, decades after its conception. Hear a piece of music you loved in the show? Discover it here! 0:05—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 0:55—Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room | Listen | Buy 3:37—Otto Luening: String Quartet No. 2 | Buy 3:48—Otto Luening: Low Speed | Listen | Buy 5:27—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313 | Listen | Buy 5:43—Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space | Listen | Buy 6:29—Otto Luening: Incantation | Listen | Buy 6:46—Benjamin Britten: Missa Brevis in D, Op. 63 | Listen | Buy 7:39—Otto Luening: String Quartet No. 2 | Buy 

Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota – Q2 Music's podcast about the musical creative process – returns for its third season on Monday, March 6. Pre-game for the new season with a week of clips from the original WNYC radio program. Meet the Composer is available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. We continue the week-long ramp-up to our next and third season with an interview with the widely influential patriarch of 20th-century experimental music John Cage. In this conversation with host Tim Page, Cage explains how his strenuous connection with music precipitated his experiments with silence, ambient noise and spirituality. Page offers his own straightforward critique of Cage's discoveries and reiterates the need for objectivity and seclusion in music criticism. Hear a piece of music you loved? Discover it here! 0:05—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 0:48—John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano | Listen | Buy 1:54—John Cage: Quartet (Santa Monica, California 1936), II. Very Slow | Listen 3:03—John Cage: Sonata VII | Listen8:20—John Cage: Bacchanale | Listen | Buy 10:24—John Cage: Six | Listen | Buy 

Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota – Q2 Music's podcast about the musical creative process – returns for its third season on Monday, March 6. Pre-game for the new season with a week of clips from the original WNYC radio program. Meet the Composer is available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. As we build up to the launch of our third season next Monday, March 6, we thought we'd look back at the original WNYC radio program Meet the Composer from the mid-'80s, hosted by the illustrious music critic Tim Page, currently a professor of music and journalism at USC. We'll share excerpts of his interviews with some of the most exciting figures in contemporary music, but before that we wanted to check in with Tim himself, a man for whom music has played an enormous force in his life, in his career, and even for his psychological well-being. We ask him how he found his way into music criticism, where that first Meet the Composer radio program came from, and what role music has played in his recovery after a recent traumatic brain injury. Hear a piece of music you loved? Discover it here! 0:05—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 1:15—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 2:58—Maurice Ravel: La Valse | Listen | Buy3:20—Luciano Berio: Sinfonia, mvt. III | Listen | Buy3:22—Philip Glass: Music in Changing Parts | Listen | Buy4:36—Dizzy Gillespie: Night in Tunisia | Listen | Buy 7:18—Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, mvt. III | Listen | Buy 8:05—Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème: Donde lieta uscì | Listen | Buy 8:24—Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, mvt. III | Listen | Buy 8:48—Elliott Carter: Of Rewaking | Listen 9:02—Elliott Carter: Retrouvailles | Listen 9:08—Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, mvt. III | Listen | Buy

On this week's Snacky Tunes, Greg Bresnitz interviews Claire Wadsworth of the restaurant La Copine. La Copine began as a pop-up kitchen in 2009. Chef Nikki Hill partnered with singer-songwriter Claire Wadsworth in Philadelphia, where they started their business serving farm-to-table brunch on a food cart. In 2012, Nikki and Claire moved to California. Now living in Yucca Valley, they have opened their first restaurant in Flamingo Heights. After the break, a live in-studio performance by violinist Nadia Sirota. “A one-woman contemporary-classical commissioning machine” (Pitchfork), violist Nadia Sirota is best known for her singular sound and expressive execution, coaxing works and collaborations from the likes of Nico Muhly, Daníel Bjarnason, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Judd Greenstein, Marcos Balter, and Missy Mazzoli. Her debut album First Things First (New Amsterdam Records) was named a record of the year by The New York Times, and her follow-up Baroque (Bedroom Community and New Amsterdam) has been called “beautiful music of a higher order than anything else you will hear this year” by SPINMedia website PopMatters. Nadia also hosts the Meet the Composer podcast on Q2 Music, exploring the work of living composers through her interviews and musical selections.

Hi, I’m Nadia Sirota, host of Meet the Composer (MTC). MTC is a podcast that confronts the artists and art that move us, using radio storytelling to tease out what makes these pieces and people tick. We aim to share the music we love with anyone who is down to listen. Music can be tricky to talk about, so when words fail, Meet the Composer uses all of the tools in our arsenal – sound design, phrasing, underscoring, and sonic embroidery – to share what we love about music with our audience. MTC is art and artists, exposed. Just a few weeks ago, we were blown away to hear that MTC won a 2015 Peabody Award, broadcasting's highest honor, praise which put us in the heady company of Radiolab and This American Life. The Peabody committee described MTC as “Fascinating, intelligent, enlightening podcasts devoted to the work of current classical composers. The show integrates music with thoughtful conversation about it without distracting from either.” We've been humbled by the overwhelming reception from our listeners. Since the show launched in June 2014, listeners from 183 countries have downloaded MTC more than 540,000 times! We've also had big shout-outs from The Guardian and The New York Times with the headlines “Meet the Composer: the podcast that's demystifying classical music” and “With ‘Meet the Composer,’ Nadia Sirota Illuminates New Music.” Both seasons were funded in large part by your contributions via Kickstarter, so, honestly, we could not have made this happen without your support. We hope we have rewarded your trust with beautiful, composed radio, and we want to start making you more.  With our upcoming third season, we are excited to take on new formats for the show and to follow creative themes past individual composers to stranger and more exotic conclusions. An emphasis on the driving forces that compel composers to put pen to paper will be a key component of Season Three. We will continue to profile composers but also unpack breakthrough pieces and dig into those moments when musical styles clashed, flirted and mutated between all types of composers, both living and dead! We will continue to compose radio with probing interviews, expert commentary and through-composed sound design. Learn about our current and critical Kickstarter campaign and help today to make Season Three a reality. 

Hi, I'm Nadia Sirota, host of Q2 Music's Meet the Composer (MTC). We set out to create something really different with MTC – a look into the minds and creative processes of composers making some of the most innovative, strange and breathtakingly beautiful music today. And we wanted to make these audio portraits feel like a musical experience. Because you supported our Season One Kickstarter, we were able to bring to life our first five hour-long, fully sound-designed episodes. We couldn't have done it without your help. We're so proud of how Season One turned out and so thrilled that MTC spoke to you.  You listened to Meet the Composer over 200,000 times from over 70 countries, via iTunes, wqxr.org and wnyc.org. Tens of thousands heard MTC on terrestrial radio in New York (WNYC), but also in Los Angeles and soon Chicago. We got some great coverage for Season One, including from Radiolab, the BBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Vogue plus a wealth of comments and social media posts you can check out here. Here's what Jad Abumrad of WNYC's Radiolab had to say: "Compelling and beautifully produced. One of the best things I've heard in a long time... Talking about music in a way that's compelling can be hard. And so when people do it well, I just feel like you gotta give them props." Help us make Season Two a reality. Learn about our five featured Season Two composers and support Meet the Composer today on Kickstarter. 

Q2 Music celebrated the launch of its inaugural podcast, Meet the Composer, on Tuesday, June 24 at 7 pm with a music party and live video webcast in The Greene Space at WQXR.  Hosted by Nadia Sirota, the evening included interviews with all five members of Season One of Meet the Composer, including the two most recent Pulitzer Prize winners, John Luther Adams (2014) and Caroline Shaw (2013), as well as fellow innovators Andrew Norman, Marcos Balter, and Donnacha Dennehy. The concert featured a star-studded array of dynamic, award-winning performers: flutist and International Contemporary Ensemble artistic director Claire Chase performs Balter's Pessoa; Hotel Elefant performs Adams's Red Arc/Blue Veil; Attacca String Quartet performs excerpts from Norman's Peculiar Strokes; Cellist Hannah Collins performs Shaw's in manus tuas; and Bang on a Can All-Star pianist Vicky Chow, cellist Ashley Bathgate and violinist Todd Reynolds perform Dennehy's Bulb. Watch video of the entire show: Q2 Music’s Meet the Composer pays homage to the landmark show of the same name hosted by Tim Page for WNYC in the mid to late '80s. Thanks to New Music USA for their flexibility with the use of the “Meet The Composer” name, which became famous though their legacy organization founded by composer John Duffy.