Paul Simon’s Curious Mind
Paul Simon has always been attracted to new kinds of sounds. From his early band Simon & Garfunkel in the 1960s through solo albums like Gra...
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Meet the Composer
Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds of the composers making some of the most innovative and breathtakingly beautiful music today.
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20 of 41 episodesKaitlyn Aurelia Smith's 'Clouds Forming Over Mount Baker'
We began last week’s episode digging into the music of one particular electronic musician - the synthesist, producer and composer Kaitlyn Au...
The Producer
What happens when a composer writes music without pen and paper, using machines? How does that change the creative process? How does it morp...
Bryce Dessner's 'Wires,' Performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain
For today’s Bonus Track, we’re thrilled to bring you the world-premiere recording of Bryce Dessner’s Wires , performed by Ensemble Intercont...
New Music Fight Club
It was composer pitted against composer: uptown vs. downtown, tonal vs. atonal, left brain vs right brain, and these musicians were NOT pull...
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid, Live at the Village Vanguard
Henry Threadgill’s music and community can’t be separated; there is no boundary: challenge and failure and growth in music are the same as c...
Henry Threadgill: Dirt, and More Dirt
1967, Fort Riley, Kansas. Henry Threadgill is 23 years old. Knowing he’s going to be drafted into the military, he joins the Army Concert Ba...
Bonus Track: John Adams' 'Coast,' Unplugged
Today's bonus track is an exclusive arrangement of a nutso, sci-fi-y electronic piece John Adams wrote in 1993. Originally part of a larger...
Splitting Adams: John Adams' Chamber Symphonies
What happens when the composer shows up to the first rehearsal of his brand-new piece? Would a living Beethoven sue for intellectual propert...
Bonus Track: Pauline Oliveros' 'Tuning Meditation'
Today's Bonus Track is an extended cut of Pauline Oliveros' "Tuning Meditation," recorded live at the Fuentidueña Chapel at the Met Cloister...
The Performer: Part Two, Pauline
We continue our investigation of the odd, wrong-side-of-the-tv-set role of The Performer with a deep dive into the "Sonic Meditations" of pi...
Bonus Track: JACK Quartet Performs Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 9
We are thrilled to bring you a WORLD PREMIERE recording as our first bonus track of Season Three! Our previous episode, The Performer: Part...
The Performer: Part One
We're kicking off Season Three with a look beyond the composer to the performer, that unusual intermediary between the artist and the audien...
From the Vaults, Part Five: Meet the Composer With Leonard Bernstein
We conclude the week-long ramp-up to our next and third season with an interview with the legendary, charismatic Leonard Bernstein. Though m...
From the Vaults, Part Four: Meet the Composer With Libby Larsen
A blast from the past featuring the composer Libby Larsen. Larsen explains how living in Minneapolis facilitated her success as a composer,...
From the Vaults, Part Three: Meet the Composer With Otto Luening
Otto Luening was a forefather of experimental electronic music and a life-long educator, flutist and composer. In this 1985 interview with h...
From the Vaults, Part Two: Meet the Composer With John Cage
We continue the week-long ramp-up to our next and third season with an interview with the widely influential patriarch of 20th-century exper...
From the Vaults, Part One: Meet the Composer With Tim Page
As we build up to the launch of our third season next Monday, we thought we'd look back at the original WNYC radio program Meet the Composer...
Kickstart Season Three of Meet the Composer
Help us make a third season of the Peabody Award-winning podcast about the creative musical process, with host Nadia Sirota. Learn more abou...
Download: 'Viola Concerto: Part II' by Nico Muhly
I'm so excited to share today's Meet the Composer bonus track with you. Last October, I traveled to Detroit to perform the US premiere of Ni...