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Contemporary means “with the times”… contemporary means “now”… and Now is the Time. Join me for Now is the Time, every Sunday night at 10 o’clock on WRTI-HD2 and on the all-classical webstream at wrti.org. Contemporary American music is being recorded all the time, and Now is the Time to take a listen and explore the music of American composers today. All types… all styles… contemporary American music on Now is the Time, every Sunday night at 10 o’clock on WRTI-HD2. Listen on HD radio or online here. Here’s the theme music, without my on-air yakking over it:

Jun 3 2012. 135. Night Time

Zhou Long. Song of Eight Unruly Tipsy Poets from Poems of Tang

Juliette Stango. Sol’ per Dirti: Addio

Richard Danielpour. A Quality Love, from Margaret Garner

Andy Teirstein. Rhapsody for Boy Soprano and Strings

Sebastian Currier. Night Time

Lowell Liebermann. Nocturne No. 1

May 27 2012. 104. Bernard Rands

Bernard Rands. Network for New Music podcast interview

Bernard Rands. now again—fragments from Sappho

Bernard Rands. Scherzi

May 20 2012. 134. Mad Men

David Carbonara. Mad Men Suite

Interview with David Carbonara

David Carbonara. Lipstick

John Zorn. Train to Thiensan

John Zorn. Snake Catcher

Lois V Vierk. Go Guitars

Larry Kucharz. Pastel 9909

May 13 2012. 101. Subito

John Harbison. North and South: Six Poems of Elizabeth Bishop

Sally Lamb. Subito

John Harbison. Cello Concerto

May 6 2012. 098. United Nations

Emma Lou Diemer. Homage to Paderewski

James Hartway. Holiday in Paris

Harold Farberman. Greek Scene

Rick Sowash. Variations on a Hiking Song

Gabriela Lena Frank. Barcarola Latinamericana

Apr 29 2012. 100. #100!

Steven Burke. Nervosa

Dave Brubeck. Strange Meadow Lark

Dave Brubeck. It’s a Raggy Waltz

Philip Koplow. Variations on a Hymn Tune

Patrick Beckman. Stomp

Denman Maroney. I’m Yours

Kile Smith. American Spirituals, Book 1

Eric Whitacre. i thank you God for most this amazing day

Apr 22 2012. No broadcast

Apr 15 2012. 133. Vera of Las Vegas

Daron Hagen. Vera of Las Vegas

Apr 8 2012. 097. Many Times

Fredrick Kaufman. Mobile String Quartet

Joel Chadabe. Many Times David

David Del Tredici. Syzygy

Jonathan Chenette. Fast Track

Apr 1 2012. 132. Music for Words, Perhaps

Roberto Sierra. Kyrie, from Missa Latina “Pro Pace“

Bernard Rands. Walcott Songs

Denman Maroney. Music for Words, Perhaps

Mar 25 2012. 094. Crooning

Braxton Blake. Dorothy Parker Songs

Andrew Bishop. Crooning

Gloria Coates. Symphony No. 15

Mar 18 2012. 093. Chameleon Music

Robert Dick. Fish are Jumping

Dan Welcher. Chameleon Music

Paul Richards. Falling on Lobsters in the Dark

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz. RatGeyser

Brooke Joyce. toydogmusic

Christopher Rouse. Wolf Rounds

Mar 11 2012. 092. Ceremonies

Jeremy Haladyna. Puc zikal Peten (Hearts of Yucatán)

Paul Chihara. Ceremony I

James Primosch. Songs and Dances from The Tempest

Jeremy Haladyna. Escalation from Demon Zero

Mar 4 2012. 131. Windsongs

David Loeb. Windsongs

Jerod Impichchaachaahá Tate. Iholbá

Feb 26 2012. 130. Suites

Tomas Svoboda. Suite for Piano 4-Hand

David Lefkowitz. Sonare Nova, from Suite for Piano

Harry Bulow. Suite for Piano

Mark Hagerty. Clavier Book 2

Feb 19 2012. 129. Lightscape

Trent Hanna. A Piece of Snow

Binnette Lipper. Circles of Light

David Gunn. Incandescendence

Daniel S. Godfrey. Lightscape

Larry Kucharz. Pastel 7712

Jennifer Higdon. blue cathedral

Feb 12 2012. 128. A Thought Revolved

Mark Hagerty. Clavier Book 1

James Hartway. Two Nights in Spain

Denman Maroney. A Thought Revolved

Feb 5 2012. 127. Berceuse fantasque

Rick Sowash. Lullabye for Kara

Steven R. Gerber. Violin Concerto

Carl Berky. The Synthelating Mariachi String Band

James Primosch. Secret Geometry

Philip Lasser. Berceuse fantasque

Jan 29 2012. 091. Sea and Air

Rodney Rogers. Alleluia Sing the Stars

Michael McDermott. Hibersea

Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn. Ayre

Rodney Rogers. Prevailing Winds

Michael McDermott. Air Curves Vicious

David Gunn. Hunting Tuna

John Zorn. The Quiet Surf

Jan 22 2012. 090. Bloom

Michael Ellison. Invocation–Meditation–Allegro

Victoria Bond. Molly ManyBloom

Jan 15 2012. 126. The World Beloved

John Biggs. Symphony No. 1

Carol Barnett. The World Beloved, A Bluegrass Mass

Jan 8 2012. 089. Philadelphia 1994

Jan Krzywicki. String Quartet

Philip Glass. Persephone

Jan 1 2012. 074. Voices of Winter

David Loeb. Voices of Winter

Joan Tower. Snow Dreams

Gloria Coates. Transitions

Larry Kucharz. Winterfall