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Greetings! Among the business to attend to during this week's program, we honor the memory and music of steel guitarist extraordinaire and Baltimore denizen, Susan Alcorn who passed on January 31. I was lucky enough to have seen her perform live at Baltimore's Red Room in 2023.  Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky : https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social      3-1-25 PTE Playlist   Loop II & Solo - Robert Fripp - Houston Hall Philadelphia United States: 2-20-1981 - DGM digital (1981) https://www.dgmlive.com/tour-dates/1693   R.I.P. Susan Alcorn Brack Water Waltz (ft. Susan Alcorn) - Astroturf Noise (Sam Day Harmet: Mandolin/fx,  Sana Nagano: Violin/fx, Zachary Swanson: Bass) - Blazing/Freezing - 577 Records (2023) https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-freezing   Thollem / Susan Alcorn 2 - keyboards: Thollem McDonas / pedal steel guitar: Susan Alcorn - Thollem / Susan Alcorn - Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions - digital release (2021) https://susanalcorn1.bandcamp.com/album/thollem-susan-alcorn-thollems-astral-traveling-sessions   Dream Crossed Twilight - Sirius Quartet / composer: Mark Edwards Wilson - Playing On The Edge 3 - Navona Records (2022) https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6520    New November - Simon Jermyn - Obsany - Elastic Recordings (2025) https://simonjermyn.bandcamp.com/album/obsany-elastic-recordings    Time Dilation - Andre LaFosse - Entry Level: An Introduction to Andre LaFosse - 7d Media (2025) https://andrelafosse7d.bandcamp.com/album/entry-level-an-introduction-to-andre-lafosse    Master of Inertia 3 - Peter Wullen - Master of Inertia - digital release (2025) https://peterwullen.bandcamp.com/album/master-of-inertia    mysterious - P.U.M.A. - ITINERE - The Church of Noisy Goat (2025) https://thechurchofnoisygoat.bandcamp.com/album/itinere    Official Facsimile - Neverending Audit - High Notes - Ingrown Records (2024) https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/album/high-notes    FIREFLIES for third-bridge acoustic guitar and electronics - Mike Frengel - Music For Guitar & Electronics - Ravona Records (2020) https://www.ravellorecords.com/catalog/rr8035/    First Chirality - Kevin Kastning / Carl Clements / Soheil Peyghambari - Triple Helix - greydisc (2025) https://kevinkastning.bandcamp.com/album/triple-helix    Josephine's Fresh Cuts - Jack O' The Clock - Portraits - digital release (2025) https://jackotheclock.bandcamp.com/album/portraits    Playing The Game - Gentle Giant - Power and the Glory - Capitol Records (1974) https://gentlegiantmusic.com/GG/The_Power_and_the_Glory    Curious Corn - Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn - Snapper Music (1997) https://ozrics.com/discography/curious-corn/ 

Greetings! So, during my recent jaunt to Europe, I found a killer used CD/vinyl store in Budapest and was tempted to dispose of my clothes and just fill by suitcase up with CDs. The track from George Harrison's "Electronic Sound" is a sampling from the stack I did procure, with other items likely to show up in the coming weeks. I'm also happy to highlight electric guitarist Garrett Gleason's "Myths & Hymns", incredibly imaginative take on Adam Guettel's beautiful song cyle. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com **Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social  Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1     11-16-24 PTE Playlist   Question Song (feat. Madeleine Ertel/trumpet) / Aplomb (feat. Chris Donnelly/piano) - Dan Fortin - Cannon - Elastic Recordings (2024) https://danfortin.bandcamp.com/album/cannon-elastic-recordings    Saturn Returns/Icarus - Adam Guettel - Hymns & Myths - Nonesuch (1999) https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/myths-and-hymns    Saturn Returns/Icarus - Garrett Gleason - Myths & Hymns - Big Round Records (2023) https://www.bigroundrecords.com/catalog/br8984    Ohm Shanti - Bill Laswell (bass, percussion, keyboards, sounds) - Asana 4: Ohm Shanti - Meta Records (2006) https://billlaswell.bandcamp.com/album/asana-4-ohm-shanti    Dawn Chorus (in memory of Terry Boblet) - Dubious Candy - Women Take Back The Drone  (compilation) - digital release (2022) https://womentakebackthenoise.bandcamp.com/album/various-women-take-back-the-drone    Сенке Праскозорја (Shadows of the Breaking Dawn) - Depression Embrace - Comp25: Sampler1 - Owlripper Records (2023) https://owlripperrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/comp25-sampler1-on001-050    Soundpieces from Scratch (for solo clarinet, 12 pre-recorded clarinets, synthesizer) -  Gary Dranch, clarinet; Frank McCarty, pre-recorded clarinet; Gary Mitro, live sound engineer / composer: Frank McCarty - The Dawn of the Bicameral Clarinetist (An Anthology of American Solo Clarinet Works from 1968-1979) - Navona Records (2024) https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6693/    Under The Mersey Wall - George Harrison - Electronic Sound - Zapple (1969) https://www.georgeharrison.com/releases/electric-sound/    Adancime ("depth")  - Thy Veils - Live at Garana Jazz Festival - digital release (2024) https://thyveils.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-garana-jazz-festival 

Though Debra Kaye bills herself as a contemporary composer, it's surprising to listen to one of her new works and hear 13 minutes of jazz played by a quartet featuring a saxophone. If classical music can swing, this is the thing. "I like having at least a couple of items on the plate," says Kaye, who lives in Beacon and describes herself as a "hybrid" composer. "I'm a classical piano major who studied jazz, so I'm open to different influences and appreciate improvisation." Her most recent album, Time Is the Sea We Swim In, released in March on Navona Records, is a compendium of compositions (including that jazz track), most recorded in 2022. If saxophones and drum kits are rare in classical music, the shakuhachi is almost non-existent. Kaye's piece, "Three Zen Poems," combines the Japanese wind instrument with cello and viola. The new collection follows another release from 2023, Ikarus Among the Stars, which includes the title work and 10 others. "I experienced some creative moments during COVID and this is the result," she says. Kaye splits her time between Manhattan, where she attended and taught at Mannes College of Music, and Beacon, where she bought a house 10 years ago before the city "popped." Some of her contributions to the fertile local classical music scene include hosting an annual Composers Collaborative at the Howland Cultural Center (coming June 23) and premiering the composition "Time is the Sea We Swim In" for violin, cello and piano during a Howland Chamber Music Circle performance in 2020. Many of Kaye's pieces are programmatic and attempt to convey their titles' themes. One is called "Ukraine 2022," another, "Dialogue with a Ghost." In 2018, she commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Chamber Music Circle with "String Quartet No. 2 - The Howland." A recording of the premiere, performed by the Voxare Quartet, is included on the new album. According to the liner notes, the challenging modern work reflects "the founding, growth and the ongoing spirit that sustains it and which remains an enduring legacy." It begins with bows skittering across the strings, then segues into clashes of intensity and silence. In the second movement, titled "The beauty of the dream upon reflection," she quotes Tchaikovsky's first string quartet, completed in 1873, a year after the Howland building's completion. "The first violin takes up the melody and yields to a duet with the cello, symbolizing the founders' shared vision," she writes. A video, shot from the balcony during the recording, shows the players lean into the work as they balance melody and dissonance. On viola, Erik Peterson swayed in his seat, cellist Wendy Law bopped along with a plucked melodic part in the third movement and the performers smiled after nailing the hot-potato handoff between instruments leading to the final violin note. Kaye's movement for jazz quartet, "Colossus 1067," commissioned by a New Mexico artist, Gus Foster, is named for a massive wooden roller coaster and the three rotational degrees of a panoramic camera he used to film one of the last rides before its dismantling in 2014. In her notes, Kaye writes about blending "pattern and serendipity. Each instrument has its role, but changes it up from time to time. Piano, bass and drums portray the clatter of the coaster and the machinery of its gears." Though tenor sax takes center stage, the piano dissolves into classical-esque glissandos as the rhythm section lopes along with a thrill ride's twists and turns. The herky-jerky score reflects physical chaos as individual instruments fade in and out. "I'm not the most envelope-pushing hybrid composer out there," says Kaye. "But I seek an individual expression that is authentic, meaningful and visceral. I want to have flow, in whatever way that means." Debra Kaye's albums can be streamed or purchased from major services or through debrakayecomposer.com.

Greetings! "What's in a name?"  According to the Farlex Dictionary of Idioms: "What someone or something is called or labeled is arbitrary compared to their or its intrinsic qualities. A reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet bemoans Romeo's last name of Montague, her family's sworn enemies." Today's selections were chosen primarily based upon their titles. I suspect that naming pieces of music is meant to communicate some type of message from the composer.  Whether it's meant to be narrative, technically descriptive, relay emotion or humor, be provocative, employ a total non-sequitur or present any combination of the above, the title is often the first piece of information related about any given piece of music. ("Have you heard_________?")   Let's see how arbitrary the titles of today's playlist turn out to be. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com  Twitter: https://twitter.com/envpusher1      7-15-23 PTE Playlist: "What's In a Name?" (… with apologies to William Shakespeare)   Twitching Gait for chamber ensemble - flute: Petri Alanko / clarinet: Heikki Nikula / Pasi Pirinen / violin: Jari Valo / cello: Risto Poutanen / composer: Juhani Nuorvala - What's a Nice Chord Like You Doing in a Piece Like This - BIS (2000)  https://bis.se/composer/nuorvala-juhani/whats-a-nice-chord-like-you-doing-in-a-piece-like-this-chamber-m   Suck It And See - Sirius Quartet / composer: Bernard Hughes - Playing On The Edge, Vol. 3 - Navona Records (2023) https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6520/    Omaggio a Jerry Lee Lewis - Richard Trythall - CMCD: Six Classics - ReR (2004) https://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=4ad4d06ebcf4b681b7ea218e39c3ffca&Screen=PROD&Category_Code=RL&Initial=&CatListingoffset=24&Product_Code=ReRCMCD-RE&Store_Code=RM&Initial=    Flying Spoons - Swansither - States - Subexotic Records (2022) https://swansither.bandcamp.com/album/states     Spigot (Draw The Pirate) - Mike Keneally - The Thing That Knowledge Can't Eat - Exowax Recordings (2023) https://www.keneally.com/music/discography-mike-keneally/the-thing-that-knowledge-cant-eat/    "The Wide Screen Erupts... 200 Motels promotional radio spot / I'm Stealing The Towels / Dental Hygiene Dilemma - Frank Zappa w/ The Mothers of Invention & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Frank Zappa's 200 Motels - Ryko/MGM (1971/1997) https://www.zappa.com/releases/200-motels/#/    Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus - Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo - Zappa Records (1972) https://www.zappa.com/releases/grand-wazoo/#/    The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) / Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica - Reprise (1970)  http://www.beefheart.com/trout-mask-replica-discography/    Sun / Zoom / Spark - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot - Reprise (1972/1990) http://www.beefheart.com/clear-spot-discography/    Zen Archer - Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star...Live! - Purple Pyramid (2020) http://cleorecs.com/home/playlist/todd-rundgren-a-wizard-a-true-star-live/    Maggot Brain - P-Funk All Stars - Live At The Beverly Theater In Hollywood - Westbound Records (1990) https://georgeclinton.com/audio/p-funk-all-stars-live-at-the-beverly-theater-in-hollywood/    I Hope They Let Us Hunt Like Men In The Next Life, part 2 - Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully - Difficult Art & Music (2023) https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-they-let-us-hunt-like-men-in-the-next-life    because a circle is not enough - violin/composer: Malcom Goldstein - because a circle is not enough: music for bowed string instruments - New World Records (2022) https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/malcolm-goldstein-because-a-circle-is-not-enough-music-for-bowed-string-instruments    A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies (for Maybeck) - pianos, voice, brandy snifter: Charlemagne Palestine - Cold Blue Music (2007) https://coldbluemusic.com/cb0025/   

Composer Simon Proctor and pianist Tyler Hay join forces to bring a dynamic collection of Proctor's original compositions to life on VIRTUOSO PIANO WORKS from Navona Records. With works spanning decades of his musical career, Proctor delivers a variety of celebrated classical styles with his own personal twists on this album. From rhapsodies to nocturnes, and everything in between, the composer-pianist duo's mutual love for virtuosic piano music shines throughout, a perfect pairing that makes for a vicariously exciting listening experience.For more information about this album, please visit Virtuoso Piano Works – Navona RecordsThis broadcast is sponsored by ‎Introducing Apple Music Classical on Apple Music

Soprano Ann Moss is an acclaimed recording artist and champion of contemporary vocal music who performs and collaborates with a dynamic array of living composers. Often described as a "fearless performer” of some of the most challenging music of our time, her high, flexible voice has been singled out by Opera News for “beautifully pure floated high notes” and by San Francisco Classical Voice for “powerful expression” … “clear, silvery tones and passionate sweetness." Mike Telin of Cleveland Classical writes, her “long fluid lines are exquisite.” In addition to working closely with well-known composers such as Jake Heggie, John Harbison, Kaija Saariaho, Aaron Jay Kernis and David Conte, Ann seeks out and performs works by new and emerging voices at forums, festivals and concert series across the USA. She has released two portrait albums: Currents (Angels Share Records 2013) and Love Life (ASR 2016), both produced and recorded by multi-GRAMMY® award winner Leslie Ann Jones at Skywalker Sound. She can also be heard on releases from labels including Albany, Arsis Audio, Jaded Ibis Productions, Naxos, Navona Records, PARMA, and Ravello Records. Moss recently made her solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony singing the music of Mozart, Gershwin and Rogers under conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. Highlights of the 2022-23 season include performances of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Gérard Grisey's Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil with After Everything Ensemble, and a concert tour in support of her newly released album Lifeline, which features re-imagined chants by Medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen recorded remotely with instrumental collaborators around the United States.

Throughout his lifetime, composer Sydney Hodkinson wrote over 250 works, covering a wide array of genres including educational literature, chamber arrangements, and large-scale orchestral pieces. SYDNEY HODKINSON: CHAMBER WORKS from Navona Records brings four live recordings of the late composer's string quartets and a trio, Rogatio Gravis, to life with performances from the Benda Quartet and the Jupiter Quartet. With works written in dedication to family members, loved ones, and friends, this posthumous release serves as a perfect parting gift from Hodkinson — a musical display of his compositional prowess and kindness.For more information on this album, please visit Sydney Hodkinson: Chamber Works – Navona RecordsThis broadcast is sponsored by ‎Introducing Apple Music Classical on Apple Music

Navona Records presents PINNACLE VOL. 3, a collection of contemporary chamber works by composers Alla Elana Cohen, Andrew Schneider, Dušan Bavdek, and Richard E Brown that highlight the melodic, emotive, and dramatic styles offered by today's chamber music. This diverse assortment of repertoire spans numerous influences and orchestrations, delivering a range of sounds from somber and moving to sprightly and energetic. Leveraging raw thematic material and colorful musical portraits, the composers and performers in this edition of PINNACLE keep the fire burning while bringing a fresh and unique tone to the series.For a tracklist and more information, please visit Pinnacle Vol. 3 – Navona Records.This broadcast is sponsored by Apple Music Classical.

Navona Records presents HAMLET from Joseph Summer. In this installment of the Shakespeare Concert Series, composer Joseph Summer brings us along to Elsinore with The Bard's classic play in an all new setting complete with the lyric integrity of Shakespeare's words in a contemporary musical arrangement. Performed by Bulgaria's State Opera Ruse orchestra, choir, and selected Bulgarian soloists with nine international soloists singing the lead roles, the celebrated revenge tragedy bursts with a new modern flair while keeping the spirit and riveting narrative of the original alive.To learn more about this album, please visit Hamlet – Navona Records

Navona Records presents JOYS ABIDING, an album of vocal duets by female composers including previously unpublished duets by British-American composer Rebecca Clarke, the text of which inspired the album title. The extensive track list of duets from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods is performed by Dana Zenobi, soprano, Oliver Worthington, baritone, Chuck Dillard, piano/harpsichord, and David Murray, double bass. JOYS ABIDING aims to elevate the important work of female composers who have historically been excluded from the male-dominated classical duet canon.For more information about this album and to purchase, please visit:You searched for joys abiding – Navona Records

Every pianist makes a piece their own, adding flourishes and signature accents, but Marta Brankovich takes artistic interpretation to a new level. Leveraging her passion and irreplicable touch on the piano, the black swan of piano conjures an unforgettable storm on MARTA, THE TEMPEST. This long-awaited exploratory deep-dive into the classical canon delivers fresh interpretations of works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Kaufman, Jirásek, and Webber, complete with a solo piano composition by Brankovich herself that offers an inside look into her artistic emergence. Weaving themes of adversity, opposing forces, and oneness with a profoundly emotive approach, Brankovich delivers a powerful program in this Navona Records release.For more information on this title, tracklist, artist, and composers and to purchase, please visit:Marta, The Tempest – Navona Records

Deeply expressive and melodic, the English horn boasts a unique texture in the woodwind family. In Elizabeth Masoudnia's aptly titled ENGLISH HORN EXPRESSIONS, the instrument has found itself in the spotlight, guided by Masoudnia's soothing tone, and lending a distinguished voice to the works of several composers. The vast lyrical range of the English horn shines throughout this album, emphasized by Masoudnia's adept artist skill set. Containing works inspired by paintings and poetry works written explicitly for Masoudnia, and more, the Philadelphia native's Navona Records debut carries a healthy balance of sentimentality and musical prowess.For more information about this performer, tracklist, to purchase, and much more, please visit:English Horn Expressions – Navona Records

SYMPHONIC SUITE NO. 3THE FOREST AND THE MOUNTAINSMark John McEncroe composerZagreb Festival Orchestra | Ivan Josip Skender conductorAustralian composer Mark John McEncroe and Navona Records present SYMPHONIC SUITE NO. 3: THE FOREST AND THE MOUNTAINS featuring three orchestral movements that draw inspiration from the natural world—”Meandering in the Forest I,” “Running Mountain Streams II,” and “Wandering in the Mountain Wilderness III.” Brought to life by Zagreb Festival Orchestra, McEncroe's unique voice and filmic quality flow throughout, with musical illustrations painted by striking crescendos and gentle string and woodwind melodies.Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Navona Records presents DASHING VOL. 3, a festive assortment of new works inspired by the signature sounds and staples of the holiday season. Comprising stories nods to classic holiday tunes, and an underlying current of wistful nostalgia, this installment of the DASHING series keeps the spirit of holiday music alive with new compositions and arrangements of well-known favorites. Brought to life by a number of orchestras, chamber ensembles, and choirs, the works of new and returning composers to the series are sure to ignite the charm and congeniality of the holiday season, highlighting the many facets that the bright break of winter can bring.Help support our show by purchasing this album  at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Megan Ihnen is a “new music force of nature.” The act of live performance is integral to Megan's work and her performances thrive on elaborate sound worlds and fully-developed dramatic interpretations. Through narrative and non-narrative musical storytelling, she explores the subjects of memory, nostalgia, the perception of time, and relationships. Whether through chamber music, staged recitals, opera, or large ensemble soloist work, she emphasizes the full range of vocal sounds, timbres, colors, and uses that characterize the 21st century voice. Megan is a prolific new music vocalist who has appeared with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Fifth House Ensemble, Latitude49, Great Noise Ensemble, Stone Mason Projects, Rhymes With Opera, SONAR new music, and more. She has sung with many outstanding performers including Nadia Shpachenko, Michael Hall, Gregory Oakes, Nick Zoulek, Hillary LaBonte as well as premiered the work of Mara Gibson, Griffin Candey, Garrett Schumann, Christian Carey, Alan Theisen, Anna Brake, D. Edward Davis, and more. A gifted narrative and non-narrative musical storyteller, Megan's performance work explores the depths of memory, nostalgia, the perception of time, and complex relationships. Ihnen's interpretations of modern and contemporary repertoire have garnered growing acclaim. She is particularly recognized as an excellent recitalist. Her This World of Yes program of contemporary music for voice and saxophone with Alan Theisen explores the themes of pathways, choices, and duality through the work of contemporary composers such as Jessica Rudman, Michael Young, and Michelle McQuade Dewhirst. This World of Yes has been performed across the United States including appearances in Kansas City, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Detroit, and Baltimore. With performances in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Colorado Springs, and Kansas City, Ms. Ihnen has worked with violinist Martha Morrison Muehleisen and Rome Prize winner video artist Karen Yasinsky to take audiences on a profound journey through György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments through video and sound. Finally, Ihnen's Single Words She Once Loved is a performance that centers around the ideas and effects of memory, dementia, and time. It is a deeply personal exploration of the dueling forces of ‘eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' and ‘God gave us memories so that we may have roses in winter'. Single Words She Once Loved features compositions by David Smooke, Ryan Keebaugh, Daniel Felsenfeld, Jeffrey Mumford, and more. Megan has enjoyed performing as part of Tuesdays @ Monk Space, Access Contemporary Music Thirsty Ears Festival, NEXTET, Ethos NewSound, 6:30 Concert Series, International U.S. Navy Saxophone Symposium, SPLICE Festival, Oh My Ears, Second Sunday Concert Series at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Winifred M. Kelley Music Series at Salisbury House, and more. She has appeared with Zeitgeist New Music, ÆPEX Contemporary Performance, Detroit New Music “Strange Beautiful Music Marathon”, Omaha Under the Radar Festival, Works and Process at the Guggenheim Series, Notes on Fiction Series at the Center for Fiction, New Music Gathering, Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project, American Opera Theatre, Vivre Musicale, UCCS Music/Peak Frequency Creative Arts Collective, Harford Community College Sunday Afternoon Concert Series, and Silver Finch Arts Collective. In the spring of 2017, Megan undertook a fundraising project for her first album, “Sleep Songs: Wordless Lullabies for the Sleepless.” She commissioned over 25 diverse composers from the United States and abroad to write brief, wordless lullabies for mezzo-soprano. Megan has also had recordings on Navona Records, Hoot/Wisdom Recordings, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Fall 2015 Mixtape, and the CarpeDM Seize Des Moines “Music Mix: Volume III” which was featured at the 2016 SXSW Festival. As a chamber musician, Megan is proud to have trained at the following summer festivals: impuls International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music, Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP), Fresh Inc Festival, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, and MusicX. Her devotion to the proliferation of new music extends beyond the commissioning and performing of music to teaching, workshopping, and mentoring of emerging artists in the field. She also works to increase the visibility and influence of new music through writing on the subject for multiple online and print publications. As a curator, she selected twenty songs for mezzo-soprano and piano for the NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music. Mezzo-Soprano, Vol. 1 includes works by: Michael Betteridge, Mark Buller, Stephen DeCesare, Douglas Fisk, Matt Frey, Jodi Goble, Ricky Ian Gordon, Cara Haxo, Cameron Lam, Cecilia Livingston, Shona Mackay, Tony Manfredonia, Nicole Murphy, Eric Pazdziora, Frances Pollock, Julia Seeholzer, Alan Thiesen, Dennis Tobenski, Moe Touizrar, and Ed Windels. Megan was honored to receive a Phyllis Bryn-Julson Award for Commitment to and Performance of 20th/21st Century Music in 2009 and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Classical Music: Solo Performance in 2014. She was an accomplished violist and drama student before pursuing degrees in music and vocal performance from Augustana University and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Ihnen has been a board member for Baltimore Concert Opera and HOWL performing arts ensemble. Megan is a devoted teacher who recently shepherded studios at Drake University Community School of Music, Southwestern Community College School for Music Vocations, and Graceland University before taking on communications roles at Nief-Norf, Live Music Project, and New Music USA. She has also been a resident faculty artist for the UMKC Summer Composition Workshop and the Mostly Modern Festival. In addition to UMKC, Megan has presented her popular masterclasses, workshops, and lectures a Bowling Green State University, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Music Gathering, Iowa Thespian Festival, UNCG Greensboro, and Florida Atlantic University. She was also a Visiting Artist for Louisiana State University for the 2018-2019 academic year. In addition to being an avid podcast listener, Ihnen enjoys drinking good coffee, joking around with her sisters, tweeting about contemporary poetry, and watching Law & Order. She has grand dreams that one day her dog, Hunter, will be the best dog in the neighborhood. She lives in New Orleans, LA and out of her suitcase equally.

Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. This week we speak with composer Andy Teirstein about his new contemporary classical music album, “Restless Nation” and play selections from it. Like his music, Teirstein is hard to categorize. Born in New York City to a Jewish family, he quickly diverted from his classical piano and violin lessons and formed folk bands in his youth. Later, he joined a wilderness school's itinerant bus and he traveled around the United States while hiking, working in local communities -- and absorbing their music. These travels and his subsequent varied occupations can be heard in his compositions, whether as a field hand, a clown, an actor, or a university professor. The inspiration for the new album's pieces comes from all over the globe, too, including here in Israel. We've played selections of “Restless Nation” throughout the conversation. One piece includes Israeli oud player Yair Dalal and was inspired by a camel trek with Bedouin in the Arava Desert which ended each night with fire-side jam sessions deep into the night. [caption id="attachment_2732495" align="alignnone" width="600"] Fire-side musical jam with Bedouin, oud player Yair Dalal and composer Andy Teirstein. (courtesy)[/caption] There is a whole cast of other leading musicians recorded on the album, including Teirstein himself on a haunting harmonica solo in his piece, "Letter to Woody," based on archival documents he found in the Woody Guthrie library. Today, Teirstein is a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is also active in coexistence arts initiatives, such as the Translucent Boundaries project, which was founded in Israel and since expanded globally. It seeks to bring together the music and dance from peoples who share borders. A big thanks to Navona Records for granting permission for use of the album tracks. "Restless Nation" can now be streamed or purchased. Choose your platform here. Watch "Cluck Old Hen" here. Times Will Tell podcasts are available for download on iTunes, TuneIn, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, PlayerFM or wherever you get your podcasts. This Times of Israel podcast is sponsored by Thirty-Six, in which host Justin Hayet scours Israel to find the 36 most wonderful, interesting people doing the most wonderful, interesting things. Subscribe to Thirty-Six on your favorite podcast platform. Image: Composer Andy Teirstein during a desert trek in Israel with oud player Yair Dalal. (courtesy) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Conductor Devin Patrick Hughes interviews Matthew Detrick, who is a violinist and entrepreneurial leader in the professional arts world, and founded and serves as executive and artistic director of the Apollo Chamber Players, which is an internationally-acclaimed chamber music ensemble serving millions around the world in the realm of creative, programmatic performance, and through commissions of multicultural new music.  Apollo Chamber Players includes Matthew J. Detrick, violin, Founder, Artistic & Executive Director, Anabel Ramirez Detrick, violin and Content and Outreach Manager, Whitney Bullock, viola and Education Coordinator, and Matthew Dudzik, cello and Chief Financial Officer. In addition to Apollo, Matthew also is a frequent guest speaker on leadership in the arts, awards funding through the Texas Commission for the Arts, and runs Detrick Arts, which contracts ensembles for charity and corporate events.  He serves as concertmaster of the Symphony of Southeast Texas and has served as soloist and musician for ensembles including Houston Grand Opera and Ballet, and the period ensemble Mercury, and was awarded the Chamber Music America Residency Award. Matt and Apollo can be heard on Navona Records, Azica Records, and Parma Recordings. Thank you for joining us on One Symphony and thanks to Matt Detrick for sharing Apollo's music and story. All works were performed by the Apollo Chamber Players.  You heard Seremoj es Romanca from the album European Folkscapes. We Will Sing One Song by Eve Beglarian includes Arsen Petrosyan, Pejman Hadadi, and Joan DerHovsepian. With Malice Towards None by Kimo Williams features electric violinist Tracy Silverman. String Quartet no. 6, Nostalgia de las montañas is by Leo Brouwer. Imágenes de Cuba is by Arthur Gottschalk. Themes of Armeninan Folksongs by Komitas Vardapet was arranged by S. Aslamazyan and Matthew Detrick, and Apollo was joined by Joan DerHovsepian. Mây for Đàn bầu & String Quartet was composed by Van-Anh Vo. You can check out Apollo's performances, and donate to the cause at apollochamberplayers.org.  You can always find more info at OneSymphony.org including a virtual tip jar if you'd like to lend your support to the podcast. Please feel free to rate, review, or share the show! Until next time, thank you for being part of the music!

From architecture to composing, Pierre Schroeder found a way to connect building buildings to building music scores. A French native, Pierre studied architecture in Paris, before graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After moving to Los Angeles, he won a number of national and international music competitions for choral works and orchestras, including the American Composers Forum 2005 Art Song Competition, with a premiere performance during the Schubert Club's Summer Festival. Pierre has composed electronic and orchestral scores for short movies and animated films, as well as documentaries.   Pierre's latest release is on Navona Records on the album “Moto Eterno”. https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6341/The music you enjoyed from Pierre is called Childhood, from Season 1 of his 4 Seasons. (Annie Kim, soprano; Louise Thomas, piano)Waiting for the completion of his new website, the address of Pierre's music page on facebook is: https://www.facebook.com/pierre.schroeder.music/Follow on Instagram: @thehowwecreatepodcast If you want to support this podcast check out: buymeacoffee.com/HowWeCreate. You can find my recent pet portraits on my Instagram: @CorisaPaintsPets.Original music by Deborah Stokol.Support the show

Zig At The Gig with Bob Lord Bob Lord is a producer, composer, and bassist based in Portsmouth NH USA. In 2015 Bob was named one of Musical America's “30 Professionals of the Year: Key Influencers,” and as CEO of PARMA Recordings his work has been nominated for three GRAMMY Awards in 2019 and 2020. PLAYLAND ARCADE, Lord's debut solo album out on April 27, 2021, is a convergence point of the disparate elements from what clearly is a remarkably diverse career. Hard-charging prog-rock blowouts, atmospheric orchestral potboilers, gauzy jazz improvisations, retro instrumental pop, straight up foley – this is a producer's album through and through, and it reflects Lord's own artistic experiences in a kaleidoscopic fashion. The musicianship is as accomplished as it is audacious. Highlighted by Lord's molten, overdriven 8-string bass, the album features drummer Jamie Perkins (from the Billboard chart-topping group The Pretty Reckless) and keyboardist Duncan Watt (composer for “League of Legends”) with cameos by Ed Jurdi (Band of Heathens, Trigger Hippy), Andy Happel (Thanks To Gravity), and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, with percussion recorded in Havana, Cuba. Lord's resume is a particularly unusual one bolstered by some truly singular credits: with Pete Townshend of The Who, Bob co-produced the double album METHOD MUSIC by Lawrence Ball, released in 2012 on Navona Records and hailed by Pitchfork for its “wondrous, rippling, and startlingly tactile music.” He is also the music producer of WILD SYMPHONY, an orchestral suite composed by the #1 NY Times bestselling author Dan Brown (“The Da Vinci Code”) which accompanies the illustrated children's book of the same title released in 2020. The book is published in more than 40 countries worldwide. In 1996 Bob co-founded the award-winning group Dreadnaught, described by Relix Magazine as “the country's best 'pure' prog-rock combo.” The band has performed with artists such as John Entwistle (The Who), Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson), and NRBQ, and their 25th anniversary album NORTHERN BURNER is set to drop in Summer 2021. Bob's Info https://www.boblordmusic.com/news https://twitter.com/boblordmusic https://www.instagram.com/boblordmusic/ https://boblordmusic.bandcamp.com/

Music Mondays featuring The Crossing and Artistic Director and Conductor Donald Nally. "At Piece," the last movement from "A Native Hill" (music by Gavin Bryars and words by Wendell Berry) was composed as a gift for The Crossing, dedicated to Cassia Bryars-Rockey, and in memoriam Julian Rockey. It was recorded on October 8-11, 2019 at St. Peter's Church in the Great Valley, Malvern, PA and included in A Native Hill by Navona Records.

We are in the “Red Stick” today; Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Not only is it home to the LSU Tigers (GEAUX TIGAHS) and Southern University Panthers, but it is also home to our next guest: Mara Gibson. She is originally from Charlottesville, Virginia, and eventually went on to Bennington College and then SUNY Buffalo where she completed her Ph.D. She has received grants and honors from the American Composer’s Forum, The Banff Center, Louisiana Division of the Arts, ArtsKC, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, the MacDowell Colony, and Yale University. Her music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Asia, and Europe. She previously worked at the University of Missouri, Kansas City Conservatory, and now works at Louisiana State University as Associate Professor of Music Composition. In the summer of 2020, she released her third CD project featuring Secret Sky performed by the Athens Philharmonic Orchestra. Today we are going to talk to her about her life, her music, and the intersections of art and music. Guest: Mara Gibson Mara Gibson’s website: www.maragibson.com ( http://www.maragibson.com ) Music Included in this Episode: Blackbird by Mara Gibson. Performed by Cascade Quartet from “Mara Gibson: Sky-Born”. Produced by Parma Records and Navona Records. © Mara Gibson 2016 Canopy by Mara Gibson. Performed by Michael Hall. © Mara Gibson 2011 Map of Rain Hitting Water by Mara Gibson Performed by David Fox. © Mara Gibson 2006/2011 Secret Sky by Mara Gibson. © Mara Gibson 2017 Ensemble Links: www.americancomposers.org ( http://www.americancomposers.org ) Hosts: William F. Montgomery - www.williammontgomerycomposer.com ( http://www.williammontgomerycomposer.com ) Hillary Lester - www.thehealthymusiciansite.com ( http://www.thehealthymusiciansite.com ) Become a Patreon: Patreon Link - https://www.patreon.com/soundsoftheworldpodcast Links for social media: Website – www.soundsoftheworldpodcast.com ( http://www.soundsoftheworldpodcast.com ) Host site link - https://redcircle.com/shows/sounds-of-the-world Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/soundsoftheworldpodcast Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/soundsoftheworldpodcast Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sounds-of-the-world/id1532113091 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaZzOWvr_VaPQ_6_sB3Oow © Sounds of the World Podcast 2020 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sounds-of-the-world/donations

Today I am talking to soprano Emily Thorner who specialises in contemporary classical music but is also the CEO of moon rising, her company where she helps people as an intuitive healer. In our chat we talk about various issues, highlighting similarities between growing as an artist through the process of learning and performing music to the process of healing and being fulfilled in life.International "ultra-soprano" (Second Inversion, WA, USA) and "new music rising star" (The Stranger, WA, USA) Emily Thorner is rapidly making her mark as a soloist in contemporary chamber ensembles, orchestras, and modern operas. Known for her command of stratospheric high notes, Ms. Thorner is highly sought-after for world premieres due to her unusual range and fearless virtuosity. Recent performances have included: Acht Brücken festival in Cologne (on WDR radio), Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme at Snape Maltings in the UK with Jessica Cottis and Claire Booth, the Donaueschinger Musiktage with Deutsche Kammerchor, Seattle, USA, singing a world premiere with Kin of the Moon, Gladbeck, Germany performing with the Duisberg Philharmonic and Chorwerk Ruhr for the Ruhrtiennale festival, and in Italy, singing as the Soprano Soloist for "Hotel Paradiso" by Benedict Mason with TransArt under the baton of Clement Power.Additionally, she has also performed in Boston and New York for a double performance of Rumpelstiltskin with Guerilla Opera as The Miller, which has been recorded for Navona Records, the classical label of PARMA records, and Sisa in Noli Me Tangere, which featured her in a mad scene in the Tagalog language. In 2018-2020, she will have made appearances in the United States (Boston, New York, Ohio, North Carolina, Seattle), England, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and Austria. Ms. Thorner recently was one of only two vocalists during the Bang on a Can New Music Festival and sang at Impuls Festival in Graz, Austria. She is the second-prize winner of The 2019 North International Music Competition and has been invited to sing in the Aldeburgh Festival (UK) in 2020 as well as SPLICE festival 3 (USA). She was also the first soprano in twenty years to take part in the new music course of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and her entrepreneurial spirit has led her to put together STATE OF BEING, a world tour written for her voice and electronics beginning late 2020. Upcoming world premieres written for her voice include collaborations with composers Julianna Hall (USA), Max Hundelshausen (DE), Alex Mills (UK), James Joslin (UK), Rob Laidlow (UK), Martyna Kosecka (Norway/Poland), Kaley Lane Eaton (USA), Anthony R. Green (USA/NL), and Rita Ueda (Canada).Ms. Thorner released her first album on Itunes with ensemble Kin of the Moon for "FUNERAL SENTENCES FOR DAMAGED CELLS" in 2020. On the radio and in the media, she and has been heard on Wartburg Radio with choir Canto Armonico, MDR in Dresden performing an excerpt of Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Mozart, icareifyoulisten.com (USA) and had an article written about her during Bang on a Can in newsounds.org (USA). A featured soloist with Sound Icon in Boston, she recorded the US premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Frage, known for its impossibly high tessitura of over twenty-two high F's and beyond. Past collaborations with contemporary chamber ensembles include: Hub New Music, Boston Musica Viva, and Sound Energy at the New Music Gathering as well as performances with recording choir Vox Futura, the Grammy award-winning Hans Zimmer International Tour, and New Hampshire Music Festival.www.emily-thorner.comwww.moon-rising.comInstagram: @emilythornersopranoTwitter: @ThornerEmily

Richard Brooks’ PLACES IN TIME travels through the acclaimed composer’s personal history with each piece representing a different period in the composer’s life. Many of these recordings were originally released by Brooks’ label, Capstone Records. Each piece gains new life as Brooks and Navona Records team up to share this fascinating work in tonality, soundscapes, and emotional sway with a new generation of music lovers. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p651/Places_in_Time_%28digital_download%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

On HYMNUS, the world-renowned Jitro Czech Girls Choir under the direction of Jiří Skopal once again delivers refined, dazzling interpretations of the music that is so much a part of Czech culture. The album, which is the Choir’s third release on Navona Records, includes 24 selections that range from Moravian and Silesian folk songs on which the Choir interprets the subtle call and response between bucolic lovers, to a series of compositions inspired by Latin proverbs on which intricate, multidimensional vocals underscore the significance of a simple word or phrase. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1190/HYMNUS.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Composer Monica Houghton has a musical and academic resume that is made even more exceptional by her experiences as a true citizen of the world. Her travels around the globe have led her to incorporate non-Western instruments and musical practices into several of her compositions as well as to find inspiration trekking through Peru, or by exploring the remote and desolate areas of the American West. On CHAMBER WORKS, her debut on Navona Records, Houghton incorporates these influences along with many others to deliver eight stunning performances showcased in a variety of musical configurations. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p617/Of_Time_and_Place.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

In MY SYMPHONIC POEMS, the two-disc album that is Mark John McEncroe’s fourth recording overall for Navona Records, the Australian composer explores worlds both internal and external. On each of the album’s ten tracks, McEncroe has crafted a musical painting, a work of art that describes, as it were, his reflections on the subject alluded to in its title. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p715/My_Symphonic_Poems_-_Mark_John_Mcencroe_%28digital_download%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

The latest installment in a multi-album series with Navona Records, CARTHAGE offers six striking pieces by composer James Primosch that confront the most elemental questions of Western philosophy. Internationally recognized and prolific, Primosch is the 2020 winner of The Virgil Thomson Award for Vocal Music from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. CARTHAGE opens with Journey, a solemn meditation in which the men of The Crossing chant text based on the work of 13th-century monk and mystic Meister Eckhart: "There is a journey you must take. / It is a journey without destination. / There is no map. / Your soul will lead you. / And you can take nothing with you." The title track, Carthage, draws on prose from Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping, a work that employs the devastated city of Carthage as a metaphor for desire and imagination: "For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it." Following is Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus. Here, four soloists sing the Latin Mass texts, while the main choir sings Denise Levertov’s cycle of poems which gives the work its title. In pulling together these texts, Primosch celebrates the feast of St. Thomas Didymus—better known as “doubting Thomas”—plumbing the depths between unbelief and faith in which true spirituality so often resides. More works inspired by questions of spirit and faith round out the program, with spiralling ecstatically - a setting of a poem of E.E. Cummings - and Two Arms of the Harbor, drawing on the musings of Thomas Merton. The album closes with One with the Darkness, One with the Light, a setting of poetry by Wendell Berry. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1009/Carthage_-_The_Crossing.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Bob Lord is a producer, composer, bassist, and CEO based in Portsmouth NH. In 2015 Bob was named one of Musical America’s “30 Professionals of the Year: Key Influencers," and as CEO of PARMA Recordings his work was nominated in two categories for the 2020 GRAMMY Awards. With Pete Townshend of The Who, Bob co-produced the double album METHOD MUSIC by Lawrence Ball, released in 2012 on Navona Records and hailed by Pitchfork for its “wondrous, rippling, and startlingly tactile music.” Lord is the music producer of WILD SYMPHONY, a symphonic suite composed by the #1 NY Times bestselling author Dan Brown ("The Da Vinci Code") which accompanies the illustrated children's book of the same title. In 1996 Bob co-founded the award-winning group Dreadnaught, described by Relix Magazine as “the country's best 'pure' prog-rock combo." His first full-length album as a solo artist, entitled PLAYLAND ARCADE, will be released in 2020.

Ep. 120: Bob Lord, CEO of PARMA Recordings Let's Talk Off The Podium with Tigran Arakelyan. In this episode Bob Lord talks about building the PARMA Recordings, job of a CEO, journey as a bassist and his new single. He also discusses the future of his company, memorable collaborations, and much more. Bob Lord is a producer, composer, bassist and CEO of PARMA Recordings, the New Hampshire-based audio production house and parent company of the Navona, Ravello, Big Round, MMC, Capstone, and Ansonica Records label imprints. He was named one of Musical America’s “30 Professionals of the Year: Key Influencers” in 2015. In 2020, PARMA's work was nominated for the 62nd annual GRAMMY Awards in two categories, with entries in classical ("Best Choral Performance" for the Navona Records release THE ARC IN THE SKY by The Crossing) and gospel ("Best Gospel Album" for SOMETHING'S HAPPENING! by CeCe Winans). Formed in 2008 to present contemporary classical, jazz, and experimental music, PARMA features work by artists such as GRAMMY Award winner Richard Stoltzman, Pulitzer Prize winners Yehudi Wyner and Lewis Spratlan, and Emmy Award winner Bruce Babcock among others. PARMA’s music can be heard in products and projects from ABC, CBS, Microsoft, C-SPAN, HBO, Nintendo, Showtime, PBS, and more. With Pete Townshend of The Who Bob co-produced the double album METHOD MUSIC by Lawrence Ball, released in 2012 on Navona Records and hailed by Pitchfork for its “wondrous, rippling, and startlingly tactile music.” In 1996 he co-founded the award-winning recording and touring experimental rock trio Dreadnaught (described by Relix Magazine as “the country's best 'pure' prog-rock combo") and since 2005 has been the Music Director for the New Hampshire Public Radio series Writers on a New England Stage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH, where the band has shared the stage with Dan Brown, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Stephen King, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and many more. In 2004 and 2018 Dreadnaught won "Best Rock Band" at the Spotlight Music Awards in Portsmouth NH. As of this writing Lord more than 600 recording and production credits on his resume, including the 2016 release ABRAZO: THE HAVANA SESSIONS, one of the very first projects recorded and produced by an American music company in Cuba since the loosening of diplomatic relations. With PARMA, Lord regularly produces recording sessions and events in countries across the globe, including the United States, Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece, Russia, Cuba, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, China, Poland, and more. Lord composed the theme song for NHPR’s morning show “The Exchange” in 2005, and the music is still featured on the program to this day. He is President of the Zagreb Festival Orchestra in Zagreb HR, a member of the Board of Trustees of The Music Hall in Portsmouth NH, and on the Advisory Board of the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra, also in Portsmouth NH. For more information about Bob Lord and PARMA RECORDINGS please visit these websites: https://www.boblordmusic.com/news and https://www.parmarecordings.com/ © Let's Talk Off The Podium, 2020

CARTHAGE JAMES PRIMOSCH THE CROSSING Donald Nally conductor GRAMMY-winning chamber choir The Crossing is back with their latest installment in a multi-album series with Navona Records. CARTHAGE comes on the heels of the 2020 GRAMMY-nominated album THE ARC IN THE SKY, released last summer. In this latest offering, artistic director Donald Nally leads the choir through six striking pieces by composer James Primosch that confront the most elemental questions of Western philosophy. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

This week we have your favorite Chicago artists from the Navona Records recording of The Great God Pan by Ross Crean! We take a moment to catch up with Ross Crean, Sarah Thompson Johansen, Andrew Fisher, and Vince Wallace. We talk all about the recording process, what we’ve been up to since December, and our … Continue reading Episode #96: Doing the Work with The Great God Pan →