Podcasts about Performance Today

For many people, Fred Child is the voice of classical music. Since 2000, he has hosted APM's Performance Today, the most-listened-to classical music show in the country. Last month, Fred announced he will step down in October 2025 after 25 years with the program. MPR News guest host Chris Farrell talks with Child as he heads into his final season about the beauty and breadth of classical music, how it taps into our emotions and why it needs to shed its “stuffiness” to reach younger and more diverse audiences.Guest: Fred Child is the host of Performance Today. He was also the commentator and announcer for “Live from Lincoln Center” on PBS. He has hosted many other live national broadcasts, including significant events from New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston and the Aspen Music Festival.Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify or RSS.    Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.    

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In episode 28 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Anupam Roy – an artist based in Delhi and member of the Locust Collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. It is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic Anthropocene. Locust Radio hosts include Adam Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl. Producers include Alexander Billet, Omnia Sol, and Adam Turl. Related texts and topics:  B.R. Ambedkar, see also B.R. Ambedkar, The Annihilation of Caste (1936) (pdf); James Baldwin (writer/author); Geroges Bataille, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939 (pdf); The Bengal Famine (1943); Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936); John Berger (artist and critic), see also Ways of Seeing (video) and Ways of Seeing (1972) (book); Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (artist); Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist); Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024); Bedatri D. Choudhury, “The Artist Who Sketched a Famine in India,” Hyperallergic (April 30, 2018); Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022); Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009); Antonio Gramsci; Institutional Critique (art); Marshall McLuhan (philosopher); Fred Morton (author); Pier Paolo Pasolini (poet and filmmaker); Platform Capitalism; Lionello Puppi, Torment in Art (1991); Kohei Saito, Capital in the Anthropocene (2020); Shulka Sawant, “Cultivating a Taste for Nature: Tagore's Landscape Paintings,” Economic and Political Weekly 52, no. 19 (2017): 57–63; Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial (2018);  J.W.M. Turner (artist); Adam Turl, Dead Paintings (2010-); Adam Turl interviews Anupam Roy, “We Are Broken Cogs in the Machine,” Red Wedge (May 7, 2019); Vincent Van Gogh (artist).

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In episode 27 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Tish Turl – writer, editor, artist, poet and member of the Locust collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a late capitalist cybernetic Anthropocene.  Locust Radio hosts include Adam Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl. Producers include Alexander Billet, Omnia Sol, and Adam Turl Related texts and topics: Mark Abel, Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time (2016); Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night (2019); Valerie Armstrong, Kevin Can F**k Himself (television series, 2021-2022`); Banksy (artist); Joseph Beuys (artist); Alexander Billet, Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis (2022);  Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024); William Blake (artist and poet); The Carnivalesque; Creepypasta; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022); The Dogscape (creepypasta), Marcel Duchamp (artist); Fanfiction; Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009); Rupi Kaur (poet); Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility (2022); Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (2014); David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks (2014); Prosimetrum; Buzz Spector (artist); Chuck Tingle (writer); Tish Turl, “Sewerbot” (2019); Tish Turl, Sound, serialized novella in Locust Review (2020-); Tish Turl, Space Goths (2019); Tish Turl, Stink Ape Resurrection Primer, serialized prosimetrum in Locust Review (2021-); Tish Turl, Toilet Key Anthology, serialized poetry series in Locust Review (2019-2021); Tish Turl an Adam Turl, Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project (2021-); Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Born Again Labor Museum (2019-).

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In episode 26 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Omnia Sol – a comic, video, and sound artist in Chicago. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. This series is being conducted as research for a future book by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic Anthropocene. The featured closing music / sound art, “Overview” and “Wilhelmina,” are from Omnia Sol's forthcoming vs. Megalon. Check out their bandcamp. Locust Radio hosts include Adam Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl. Producers include Alexander Billet, Omnia Sol, and Adam Turl. Related texts and topics: Arte Povera; Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936); Michael Betancourt, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice (2017); William Blake; Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024); Stan Brakhage ; Bertolt Brecht - see also Brecht, “A Short Organum for the Theater” (1948);  Cybernetic Culture Research Unit; Mark Fisher, “Acid Communism (Unfinished Introduction)”; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022); Scott Dikkers, Jim's Journal (comic by the co-founder of the Onion); Dollar Art House; Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009); Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (2014); Mark Fisher, K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2019); Flicker Films; Fully Automated Luxury (Gay) Space Communism; Glitch Art; Jean-Luc Godard; Grand Upright Music, Ltd. vs. Warner Brothers Records (Biz Markie) (1991); William Hogarth; Tamara Kneese, Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (2023); Holly Lewis, “Toward AI Realism,” Spectre (2024); Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848); Nam June Paik and TV Buddha; Harvey Pekar (comic artist); Gregory Sholette, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2010); Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (2016); TOSAS (The Omnia Sol Art Show); Nat Turner; Wildstyle and Style Wars (1983 film); YOVOZAL, “My Thoughts about AI and art,” YouTube video (2024)

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WTOP's Jason Fraley interviews renowned classical pianist Lara Downes, who releases her new album “This Land” today after her last album earned her the title of 2022 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today. Downes called WTOP in 2019 when she visited Sixth & I in Washington D.C. to perform songs from her album “Holes in the Sky,” alongside Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WTOP's Jason Fraley interviews renowned classical pianist Lara Downes, who releases her new album “This Land” today after her last album earned her the title of 2022 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today. Downes called WTOP in 2019 when she visited Sixth & I in Washington D.C. to perform songs from her album “Holes in the Sky,” alongside Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this episode of Locust Radio we are flipping the script a bit. Instead of Tish, Laura and Adam interviewing someone, Tish and Adam are interviewed by Locust's own Alexander Billet. They discuss, among other things, the Born Again Labor Museum, Adam and Tish's ongoing sited conceptual art and installation project in southern Illinois. An edited and abridged transcript of the interview is available on Alexander Billet's substack. A note: The interview was recorded the weekend before President Joe Biden quit the presidential race and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris. Artworks, artists, concepts, histories, and texts discussed in this episode: Jean Baudrillard, America (1989); Walter Benjamin, “Theses on History” (1940); John Berger, Ways of Seeing (documentary and book) (1972); Joseph Beuys; Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024); Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Art (1998); Bertolt Brehct, “A Short Organum for the Theater” (1949); Bertolt Brecht, War Primer (1955); “Carbondale Starbucks Employees Vote to Unionize” (2022); Anna Casey, “Museum examines workers rights through art” (2022); Class and Social Struggle in southern Illinois; Andrew Cooper; Kallie Cox, “Born Again Labor Museum Offers Free Communist Manifestos” (2022); Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022); Mike Davis and Hal Rothman, The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (2002); Marcel Duchamp; R. Faze, “I Live an Hour from My Body” (2021); Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2008); Eirc Gellman and Jarod Roll, The Gospel of the Working-Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America (2011); Francisco Goya, Disasters of War (1810-1820); Boris Groys, “The Weak Universalism” (2010); Jenny Holzer; Barbara Kruger; Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's ‘On the Concept of History' (2005); Frances Madeson, “At the Born Again Labor Museum, Art is a Weapon for the Working Class” (2022); Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846); Karl Marx and Freidrick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848); Pablo PIcasso, Guernica (1937); Russian Cosmism; Penelope Spheeris, The Decline of Western Civilization (1981); Stop Cop City; Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours (1938); Adam Turl, “Against the Weak Avant-Garde” (2016); Adam Turl, “The Art Space as Epic Theater” (2015); Adam Turl, “Outsider Art is a Lie” (2019) and Adam Turl, “We're All Outsiders Now” (2019); Tish Turl, “Class Revenge Fanfiction” (2022); Tish Turl, “Toilet Key Anthology” (2020); Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Born Again Labor Museum; Tish Turl and Adam Turl, Born Again Labor Tracts; The Wanderers/Peredvizkniki  In other news, the call for submissions for Locust Review 12 is available on our website, check it out.  Locust Radio is produced by Omnia Sol, Alexander Billet and Adam Turl. Its hosts include Adam Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl.

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Maestro Jamie Reeves, Music Director and Conductor of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, talks with Carolyn Hutcheson of In Focus about upcoming fall concerts, which include a world premiere piece by Alabama composer J.R. Speake, plus appearances by a BBC New Generation Artist, violinist Geneva Lewis, who also is a guest artist on "Performance Today."

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