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Episode 28: Guatemala Contemporanea
Episode 28: Guatemala Contemporanea In this episode, I interview composers Josh Rodriguez and Xavier Beteta about their new project, a composition festival in Guatemala called Guatemala Contemporanea. Both are professors of composition in the United States but are originally from South America. Josh is from Argentina and Xavier is from Guatemala. They have joined together…
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Episode 27: Reclaiming Native Culture Through Music
Episode 27: Reclaiming Native Culture Through Music In today’s epispde, I interview Kirsten Kunkle, a soprano, librettist, pedagogue, composer and member of the Mvskoke nation. She shares how she combines her native heritage with her love and passion for classical music, and why reclaiming culture is important for all of us. Topics in this episode…
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Episode 26: Pairing Visual Art and Music with Sounds Modern
Episode 26: Pairing Visual art and Music with Sounds Modern On today’s episode, I interview Elizabeth McNutt, flutist, concert curator and founder of Sounds Modern. Sounds Modern partners with a local modern art museum to present concerts which pair contemporary music with contemporary art allowing for conversation between the artistic disciplines to bring a greater…
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Episode 25: The Value in Vulnerability
Episode 25: The Value in Vulnerability My guest on today’s episode is singer-songwriter, Meghan Pulles. After training as an operatic vocalist, Meghan realized her heart was pulling her towards songwriting. Now, she is creating music which she calls “emo-positive” that brings listeners through the darkness into light. Meghan believes that by being vulnerable, artists can…
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Episode 24: French Horn, Computers and AI, Oh My!
Episode 24: French Horn, Computers and AI, Oh My! The guest on Episode 24 is Brian KM, a composer and French-hornist living in Australia. He tours with a program he created which he calls a “show, not a recital” combining French horn with live electronics and incorporating classical music, daft-punk, poetry, and loop-making. Along the…
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Episode 23: All About the InterPlay Orchestra
Episode 23: All About the InterPlay Orchestra My guest on today’s episode is Emily Park, the artistic director and principal conductor of the InterPlay Orchestra, a musical ensemble in the Washington D.C. area that exists to give individuals with various intellectual, developmental, or physical disabilities the opportunity to learn and perform music. This ensemble is…
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Episode 22: Do We Need to Curate Culture? Part 2
Episode 22: Do We Need to Curate Culture? Part 2 On today’s episode, I continue my conversation with Joshua Nichols. Though we disagree on hot topics like diversity, equity and inclusion and the impact they have on classical music, we have a respectful conversation about broader issues like the need to listen deeply, how to…
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Episode 21: Do We Need to Curate Culture? Part 1
Episode 21: Do We Need to Curate Culture? Part 1 This episode is part one of my conversation with Joshua Nichols, a fellow at the Center for American Culture and Ideas. Get ready for a deeply philosophical discussion about the pragmatic versus the beautiful, the nature of transcendence, the democratization of art, whether culture should…
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Episode 20: Building Community Through Art Song
Episode 20: Building Community Through Art Song Dawn Walters is a mezzo-soprano and composer living and working in East Yorkshire, England. She shares how composing and performing art song builds community. She did this through participation in the Leeds Lieder Festival in addition to being a teaching artist through the Maritime Primary Outreach Program. We…
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Episode 19: The “In Good Hands” Project
Episode 19: The “In Good Hands” Project Find the Transcript to Episode 19 here. For this episode, I interviewed Jan Mittelsteadt who is the director of the composition project In Good Hands, which is sponsored by the Cascadia Composers group out of Portland, Oregon, part of the National Association of Composers, USA. Unfortunately, there was…
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