Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
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Welcome to "comPOSERS The Movie Score Podcast", where three old musician friends of dubious talent enjoy some movie-themed drinks while discussing film scores and the films they're in. Our goal is to find the perfect movie score, and our journey takes us some really weird places. Join us on this bizarre musical trek to...somewhere? Follow us on the socials @composerspod, then sit back, pour yourself an adult beverage and enjoy some comPOSING. NEW EPISODES EVERY SUNDAY!
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”The Composer’s Cut,” with host composer-cellist Mathew Arrellín is a podcast where we dive deep into the creative processes of composers and performers in the contemporary music scene. Each episode features insightful conversations with musicians who share their journeys, inspirations, and challenges, offering listeners a unique glimpse into the making of modern music. Whether you’re a fellow composer, performer, or simply a lover of contemporary music, this podcast explores the stories beh ...
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Classical Guitar Composers is a podcast for composers to share their works for classical guitar with other guitar enthusiasts. Listeners contribute recordings of their works to get them heard by classical guitar players and fans.
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Diving into the day-to-day details of a composer: what they do, how they do it, and why. Nadia, the host, is a composer for film and media, and graduated from Berklee College of Music. She shares tips on how to compose, music theory, her experiences, and interviews other composers to give you an insider's view on composing professionally. Website: https://www.nadiamair.com/the-composers-life Email: nadiammair@gmail.com
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A podcast for Composers, Songwriters, Orchestrators, Songmakers, and Music Producers. We talk about composers' life, DAWs, plugins, virtual instruments, and much more. We also invite interesting guests.
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Hosted by Giovanni Rotondo, Composers' Favourites portraits the persons behind the film composers. In every episode a different guest talks about their favourite books, albums, films, instruments, coffee, places, restaurants....
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews today’s composers exploring the relationship between their immediate environment and the music they write. From BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, published on Sunday mornings.
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Music & Dance: Musicians, Composers, Singers, Dancers, Choreographers, Performers Talk Art, Creativity & The Creative Process
Musicians, Composers, Performers, Dancers, Choreographers...in Conversation: Creative Process Original Series
Music & Dance episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners ...
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This classical music podcast explores the history and lives of some of western classical music's most famous composers and musicians. Classical music is filled with very colorful personalities and riddled with drama of all kinds, from political intrigue to failed romances and everything in between. Through the course of the show, we will discuss composers and musicians from the distant past all the way to the present, beginning with the greatest, JS Bach. -Please rate, review, and subscribe ...
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The Great Composers dives deep into the lives behind some of the greatest music ever written. Host Karla Walker and conductor Scott O'Neil look at the world through the eyes of these gifted artists. Learn about obstacles they overcame, and their loves, losses, successes and failures. You'll feel you know Mozart, Rachmaninov and others as friends.
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Join hosts Anna Linvill, and Tarik Ghiradella for conversations with contemporary composers about music, life, and what’s happening in the genre defying world of classical music today. The Composer’s Studio is a place where living art is made, a place without boundaries where inspiration can come from anywhere from birdsong to heavy metal, Vivaldi to the hum of a vacuum cleaner. Classical composers today are no longer confined to the concert stage or the cathedral but contribute to film scor ...
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Film & TV, The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design, Talk Art & Creativity
Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography Producing Conversations: Creative Process Original Series
Film & TV episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to actors, directors, writers, cinematographers & variety of behind the scenes creatives about their work and how they forged their creative careers. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds o ...
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Welcome to The Screen Composer’s Studio, a podcast about the musical storytellers behind some of your favorite films, series, video games, and more. In each episode we'll be taking you behind the screen and talking to the musical magicians who bring these stories to life. These hidden giants may not often bask in the limelight, but you've definitely felt the power of their work. Join us to find out how composers shape emotional journeys, give color and shade to beloved characters and worlds, ...
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The First Six Notes Podcast with Classroom Composers is for band teachers and string teachers looking for great information from experienced teachers. Every other week, we’ll dive into everything about teaching band and string music students. We’re covering everything from pedagogy to fundraising and interviewing successful music teachers, composers, admin, professional private studio teachers, and more to uncover and share their strategies for musical success.Classroom Composers is a marrie ...
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Welcome to the Composable Commerce Podcast powered by Deity, the leading platform for Composable Commerce. In this podcast we explore the world of Composable Commerce: What is it? How does it work? And most importantly, how will it help businesses grow? We talk with online merchants, agencies and tech companies about their experience in Composable Commerce, including some of the biggest retailers in the world. So, do you want to know everything about it? Please hit the subscribe button so yo ...
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Ambient Discourses is a podcast with long-form conversations with musicians and composers who create musical experiences and sonic landscapes in the ambient, neoclassical, new age, and other peripheral music genres. We talk in-depth about topics like inspiration, the creative process, and other interesting conversational topics; and we play a few tracks from their latest album. Each conversation is also paired with an episode on The STOLACE | RELAY STATION — a global ambient music program, w ...
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This show is for the Trailer Music Composer both amateur and professional. I cover a range of topics from mindset to productivity, to creativity and production.From time to time there will be special guests giving their experience of working in the Trailer Music industry and even some aspiring composers sharing their stories from The Trailer Music School.
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Composing music can be incredibly fulfilling. In this show we explore techniques, tools, ideas, and the art of composing. We'll consider both traditional and more modern styles of composing, from the concert hall to film and TV. Each episode will focus on an idea, technique, principle, or a great piece of music which we can learn from. The aim is for every episode to give you practical, actionable advice which you can use in your own music, and which will help you to grow as a composer.
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Composers Ronit Kirchman, Will Bates, And The Newton Brothers Talk Scoring Suspense and Horror
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As part of our Wondercon 2019 coverage; I spoke with Ronit Kirchman, Will Bates, and The Newton Brothers talk about composing for some of the best Horror and Suspense shows on television. BMI and White Bear PR teamed up to bring the “Spine-Tingling Suspense: Music from Thrillers and Drama” panel at WonderCon 2019. The panel featured renowned composers Ronit Kirchman (The Sinner, Zen and the Art of Dying), Will Bates (The Magicians, Imperium, Nightflyers), and Andy Grush and Taylor Newton Ste ...
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The computer music movement of the 1960’s, 70s and 80’s created the technology that established the sound of music as we know it today. We unearth the stories behind that movement, as well as some trippy music that demonstrates how music grew into the electronic sounds we take for granted now. In Season 2, we take a deep dive into the music of Stanley Jordan, a jazz master who combines musical virtuosity with a lifelong love of the technology. In Season 1, we told the story of a group of mus ...
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Synopsis By the time of his death in 1949, German composer Richard Strauss was famous worldwide as the composer of operas like Der Rosenkavalier and tone-poems like Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. These operas and tone-poems are so famous, we tend to forget that Strauss also composed symphonies — two of them, both written when the yo…
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Alex Mincek on Form, the Elasticity of Time, and Repetition
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58:31In episode no. 4 of The Composer's Cut, I sat down with composer-saxophonist and co-director of the Wet Ink Ensemble Alex Mincek to talk about his approach to form, relationships between the surface and the structure of his music, the role of repetition in his music, his relationship with the visual arts, and some recent works! Learn more about you…
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SATURDAY NIGHT (2024) - Series 15: Episode 229
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1:27:20The Three Musketeers of Mediocrity have returned, and we are live (not really) and in person (yes really, thanks to the baffling generous support of our Patreon listeners). Joined by special guest Amanda Factor (better known as "Jay's girlfriend who's been on the show before") the boys gather in Jay's front room to discuss the excellent 2024 Jason …
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Feminism in the 21st Century
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17:10How has feminism changed in light of the way we live now? DEAN SPADE (Author of Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up & Raise Hell Together) on recognizing political conditions in personal relationships. MARILYN MINTER (Artist, Feminist) on sexual agency, beauty & her creative process. TEY MEADOW (Author of Trans Kids: Bein…
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Synopsis On today’s date 2000, at the University of Richmond in Virginia, the Shanghai Quartet premiered the String Quartet No. 4 by composer Bright Sheng. Sheng was born in Shanghai in 1955, but since the 80s he’s made the United States his home and has earned an enviable reputation as both a composer and teacher. But in the late 1960s, during the…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1801, the world — or at least that portion of it seated in the Imperial Court Theater in Vienna — heard a new ballet for the first time. The real draw that evening was the prima ballerina of the company, a certain Fraulein Cassentini. The music was by young, emerging composer Ludwig van Beethoven, and his ballet was call…
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Synopsis In the winter of 1807, a group of music-loving Viennese, frustrated that their chances to hear orchestral and symphonic music seemed rather sporadic, decided to sponsor a series of symphonic concerts themselves. Their organization was called, simply The Concert of Music Lovers, with performing forces made up — as a Viennese newspaper put i…
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Synopsis For the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, a major international arts festival was planned, and, as its centerpiece, a gigantic day-long music-theater work designed and coordinated by avant-garde American director Robert Wilson. Wilson titled the work the CIVIL warS: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, with a story line loosely inspir…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1965, Lizzie Borden premiered at the New York City Opera. The new opera by American composer Jack Beeson depicted a fictionalized version of a real-life event: a gruesome double axe-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden that occurred in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. Andrew Borden’s daughter, Lizzie, was accused of the m…
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Synopsis Commedia dell’arte was a kind of theater popular throughout Italy during the 18th century. In this improvised, rough and tumble genre, a group of stock figures with names like Harlequin, Pierrot, and Punchinello would appear in awkward and farcical situations which modern audiences might recognize from the TV sitcoms — only the earthy 18th…
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Synopsis When your instrument is nicknamed “the burping bedpost,” it’s hard to get respect in refined circles. So it’s understandable that the bassoon section of, say, a major London orchestra might indulge in a bit of day-dreaming in which a gang of hot-rodding motorcycling bassoonists blow into town and take over a concert hall. And guess what? T…
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Synopsis On this day in the year 1886, critic Gustav Dompke wrote these lines in the German Times of Vienna, after attending a performance of one of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies: “We recoil in horror before this rotting odor which rushes into our nostrils from the disharmonies of this putrefactive counterpoint…Bruckner composes like a drunkard!” Tod…
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Synopsis One of the most serious — and daunting — of musical forms is the passacaglia, in which an unchanging melodic pattern repeats itself while other lines of melody offer elaboration and counterpoint to the unwavering tread of the repeated motive. The result tends to be deliberate, somber and imposing. The most famous passacaglia in all of West…
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Synopsis In 2010, the American Composers Forum launched ChoralQuest, a specially-commissioned series of works written especially for middle and junior high school choirs. The idea was to expand the available repertoire for young choirs, introduce them to contemporary composers, and give composers the chance and challenge of writing for young voices…
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José-Luis Hurtado: Bridging Sound and Vision in Composition
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1:02:03In episode no. 3 of The Composer's Cut, I sat down with composer/pianist José-Luis Hurtado to talk about his compositional process, his relationship with the visual arts, and some recent works! Learn more about your host: https://www.mathew-arrellin.com/ Subscribe to my newsletter so you don't miss any updates! https://www.mathew-arrellin.com/subsc…
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Synopsis The opening of Edith Wharton’s novel, The Age of Innocence, takes place at New York’s old Academy of Music in the early 1870s, during a performance of Gounod’s Faust, a French opera based on a German play by Goethe. At the time specified in Wharton’s novel, Gounod’s opera was still “new” music, having premiered about a dozen years earlier …
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Synopsis All artists, including composers, are frequently urged to “write what they know.” Well, if that’s the case, then any new and sleep-deprived parent can relate to music which depicts a late-night session with a newborn baby. It’s the middle movement of a piano concerto that was given its premiere on today’s date in 1994 by the Kansas City Sy…
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Synopsis Today we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Boston (where else?), noting two musical premieres that occurred in that Celtic city. The first premiere was in March 1922, when Pierre Monteux conducted the Boston Symphony in the premiere of three of the Five Irish Fantasies by German-born American composer Charles Martin Loeffler. These were setti…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1968, 72-year-old Italian-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco died in Beverley Hills. As a young man, he was already known as a rising composer, concert pianist, music critic and essayist. In 1939 he left Mussolini’s Italy and came to America, and like a lot of European musicians of the time, he found work w…
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Synopsis For their February 2013 cover story, the editors of BBC Music Magazine, came up with a list of the 50 most influential people in the history of music. Bach was on it, as you might expect — but so was Shakespeare. Any music lover can see the logic in that, and cite pieces like Mendelssohn’s music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Tchaikovsky…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 2002, a new violin concerto received its premiere by the Boston Symphony and German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, with the new work’s composer, Andre Previn conducting. Previn was born in Berlin, came to the United States in 1939, and became an American citizen in 1943. His concerto reflects a homecoming of sorts in its …
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Synopsis In 1986, the city of Chicago celebrated its 150th anniversary, and an anonymous music patron was willing to back the commission of a big new orchestral work for the pride of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and its superstar conductor back then, namely George Solti. The manager of the Chicago Symphony approached American composer Ge…
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Synopsis The University of Puerto Rico is the main public university system in the island commonwealth, with 11 campuses, over 4000 faculty members, and some 40,000 students. In 2003, to celebrate the centennial of its founding on March 12, 1903, the University commissioned a new work for guitar and orchestra, to be premiered by virtuoso Pepe Romer…
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Synopsis These days if someone goes to all the trouble to write a symphony, they’re lucky to hear it performed once — and it might be years before a second hearing. But in 1791, when Haydn paid his first visit to England, Londoners were so enthusiastic about his new symphonies they asked for repeat performances as soon as possible. On today’s date …
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Synopsis Following the successful premiere of his Symphony No. 1 in 1876, New England composer John Knowles Paine finished a second, which he gave a German subtitle: Im Fruehling or In Springtime. In 19th century America, “serious” music meant German music, and “serious” musicians like Paine all studied in Germany. Returning home, Paine became the …
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Inside Eric Wubbels’ Music: Process, Improvisation, and Meaning Today
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1:54:31In the second episode of The Composer's Cut podcast, I sit down with composer-pianist Eric Wubbels of the Wet Ink Ensemble to talk about his compositional process! Learn more about your host here: https://www.mathew-arrellin.com/ Subscribe to my newsletter so you don't miss any updates! https://www.mathew-arrellin.com/subscribe _____ Eric's website…
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Composer Anna-Louise Walton on the Art of Working with Limited Materials
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27:20In the inaugural episode of my new podcast The Composer's Cut, I talk with Anna-Louise Walton about her compositional process and working with limited materials. Learn more about your host here: https://www.mathew-arrellin.com/ Subscribe to my newsletter so you don't miss any updates! https://www.mathew-arrellin.com/subscribe _____ Check out her mu…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1706, German composer and organist Johann Pachelbel was buried in Nuremberg, the town where he was born 53 years earlier. In his day, Pachelbel was regarded as an innovative composer of Protestant church music and works for harpsichord and organ. He was acquainted with the Bach family, and was, in fact, the teacher of th…
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