Now is the Time

(for 2008 schedule click here)

2009

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 wrti_logoall 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.

2008 schedule

Jan 4 2009. No broadcast

Jan 11 2009. 027

Margaret Brouwer—Light

Pierre Jalbert—Trio

Michael Whalen—Rain in the City

Alice Gomez—High-Life

Jan 18 2009. 028

Kenji Bunch—Suite for Viola and Piano

Efraín Amaya—Dúo ami

George Crumb—Five Pieces for Piano

Efraín AmayaPájaros de tres alas

Jan 25 2009. 029

Paul Richards—Hypercube

Jeffrey Mumford—Fragments from the surrounding evening

Marc Satterwhite—Memento mori I: Red Carnations in White Lace Curtains

Vivian Fung—Miniatures

Paul Richards—The Great Octopus

Feb 1 2009. 030

Eric Whitacre—Lux aurumque

Adam Berenson—The Reclamation, parts 1–4

Eric Whitacre—Cloudburst

Charles Abramovic—Unanswered Hands

Feb 8 2009. 031

Harold Boatrite—Sonata for Piano

John Adams—Pat’s Aria (from Nixon in China) [for piano]

Richard Brodhead—Sonata Classica

Feb 15 2009. 032

Leslie Bassett—Brass Quintet

Ezra Laderman—Aldo

Jeremy Gill—Suite for Brass

Feb 22 2009. 033

Eric Sessler—Fantasy for Organ Solo

Ronn McFarlane—Cathedral Cave

Ronn McFarlane—Indigo Road

Ronn McFarlane—Rosa

Paul Richards—A Butterfly Coughs in Africa

George Crumb—Vox Balanae

Mar 1 2009. 034

Carl Berky—Frozen Vibrations

David M. Gordon—Friction Systems

Robert Ceely—Three Satires

Dennis DeSantis—strange imaginary remix

Mar 8 2009. 035

Harold Farberman—Quintessence

Timothy Greatbatch—Scenes from the Brothers Grimm (Book I)

Robert Moran—Obrigado

Ezra Laderman—Sextet

Mar 15 2009. 036

Donald Crockett—The Ceiling of Heaven

Evan Chambers—Cold Water Dry Stone

Jonathan Sacks—Incantations: Book V

Mar 22 2009. 037

Sheila Silver—Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Sheila Silver—Prelude No. 1 for piano “D’après poèmes de Baudelaire,” La mer à Cassis

Mar 29 2009. 038

Eric Whitacre—i will wade out

Jorge Martín—Wand’ring Steps and Slow

Hilary Tann—Nothing Forgotten

Gerald Levinson—At the Still Point of the World, There the Dance Is

Apr 5 2009. 039

Mark Alburger—The Twelve Fingers

Lettie Beckon Alston—Three Rhapsodies for Piano

Karen Walwyn—The New and Marvelous

Emiliano Pardo-Tristán—Son-Sonete

Apr 12 2009. 040

Beata Moon—1, 2, 3

Joseph Koykkar—Panache

Ronn McFarlane—Chocolate Factory

Jennifer Higdon—Zaka

Robert Moran—Kboco

Apr 19 2009. 041

Paul Moravec—Mood Swings

Ron McFarland—Les Hommages Preludes

John Harbison—String Quartet No. 3

Apr 26 2009. 042

Harold Boatrite—Sonata-Fantasia for Harpsichord

Adolphus Hailstork—The Song of Deborah

Nancy Galbraith—Inquiet Spirits

Darrell Handel—Orpheus Left his Heart

Nancy Galbraith—Piano Sonata No. 1, movements 2, 3

May 3 2009. 043

Curt Cacioppo—Pawnee Preludes for Piano

Efraín Amaya—Wuaraira Repano

David Bennett Thomas—Steeples in My Soul

Curt CacioppoSnake Dance

May 10 2009. 044

Daniel Roihl—Amen 2

Augusta Read Thomas—In My Sky at Twilight

Christopher Theofanidis—Flow, My Tears

Daniel Roihl—Amen 3

Diane Wittry—Mist

Daniel Roihl—Shaker Hymn

Daniel Roihl—Amen 4

May 17 2009. 045

Dinos Constantinides—Homage, A Folk Concerto

Steve Reich—Six Marimbas

Steven Mackey—Indigenous Instruments

May 24 2009. 046

David N. Baker—Concerto for Tuba

Elliott Carter—Shard

Cynthia Folio—When the Spirit Catches You…

Guy Klucevsek—Wing/Prayer

May 31 2009. 047

Ingrid Arauco—Jasper

Benjamin Broening—Via Negativa: Cloud of Forgetting

Ingrid Arauco—Triptych

Philip Glass—Days and Nights in Rocinha

Michael Horvit—Aleinu (Adoration)

Jun 7 2009. 048

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz—No Money (Lullaby for Bill)

Lisa Bielawa—A Collective Cleansing

Raoul Pleskow—Chamber Setting with Voice

Steve Reich—You Are (Variations)

Jun 14 2009. 049

Leslie Burrs—Voyeuristic Absurdities

Carl Berky—Boogie Cadenza

David Z. Durant—Choragus Revisited

Stacy Garrop—String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels

Jun 21 2009. 050

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz—Iskajtbrz

Margaret Brouwer—Under the Summer Tree…

Wendy Mae Chambers—Night of the Shooting Stars

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz—The Warbler’s Garden

Jun 28 2009. 051

Michael Daugherty—Red Cape Tango

Allan Crossman—Millennium Overture Dance

Aaron Jay Kernis—Sarabanda in Memoriam

Jonathan Sacks—Sirian Blue

Guy Klucevsek—Tangocide

Jul 5 2009. 052

Joan Tower—Fanfare No. 3 for the Uncommon Woman

Adam Berenson—Blue Red and White

Jul 12 2009. 053

Alvin Curran—Endangered species

Beata Moon—Guernica

Steve Reich—Sextet

Curt Cacioppo—Fantasy-Choruses on “This Little Light of Mine”

2 Responses to “Now is the Time”

  1. Ron McFarland Says:

    What a surprise & pleasure to have some of my Les Hommages Preludes performed on your Program Apr 19 2009. They were performed by pianist Mack McCray at Old First Concerts in San Francisco on my 80th Birthday Celebration Concert, Apr 20, 2008. This will be another birthday celebration! In September, 1983, pianist Steven Eldredge asked me to write piano music for his up-coming SF recital in December of that year. When I innocently asked what kind of music he would like, He answered, “Twenty-four preludes and I’ll need some time to practice them.” I wrote two and sometimes three preludes a week for the next ten to twelve weeks, only to be told, on delivery, that the recital had been cancelled. It was another 10 years before they were premiered by Eliane Lust as the first half of her Old First Concerts recital and then recored in 1994 by Con Molto Music.…Sincerely, Ron McFarland

  2. Kile Smith Says:

    Bravo! Happy Birthday and cent’anni! I was very happy to be able to program these; I think they’re just delicious. All my best wishes,
    Kile

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