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:
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 Amaya—Pájaros 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 Cacioppo—Snake 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”
Jul 19 2009. 054
John Harbison—Fantasia on a Ground
Elliott Carter—String Quartet No. 3
Milton Babbitt—Three Cultivated Choruses
Steven R. Gerber—Une saison en enfer
Jul 26 2009. No broadcast
Aug 2 2009. 055
James Primosch—Meditation on “What Wondrous Love is This?”
Jorge Martín—Piano Fantasy on Sredni Vashtar
Samuel Adler—In Praise of Bach
Pamela Decker—Retablo III: Victimae Paschali
Jason Eckardt—Echoes’ White Veil
Aug 9 2009. 056
Milton Babbitt—Allegro Penseroso
Judith Lang Zaimont—Hitchin’—a travellin’ groove
Maurice Wright—Sonata for Piano
Neil Rolnick—The Economic Engine
Aug 16 2009. 057
Ezra Laderman—Simões
Larry Kucharz—Blue Drawing No. 06
Jay Reise—Concerto for Cello and 13 Instruments
Aug 23 2009. 058
Michael Horvit—Invocation & Exultation
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz—Softening Cries
Carl Berky—Baroqueisms of Pleasure
Andrea Clearfield—Romanza for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
Aug 30 2009. 059
Larry Kucharz—City Street Scenes II
Robert Maggio—Riddle
John Melby—Concerto for Computer and Orchestra
Eric Whitacre—When David heard
Sep 6 2009. 060
Evan Chambers—The Fire Hose Reel
Daniel Dorff—Three Fun Fables
Margaret Brouwer—Demeter Prelude
Peter Boyer—Ghosts of Troy
Leo Kraft—L’Unicorno
Kari Juusela—Apollo and Daphne
Sep 13 2009. No broadcast
Sep 20 2009. 062
David Kechley—Voices from the Garden
George Crumb—Eleven Echoes of Autumn
Katherine Hoover—Canyon Echoes
Sep 27 2009. 063
Michael Fiday—9 Haiku
Margaret Garwood—Haiku Zoo
Robert Xavier Rodríguez—Forbidden Fire
Michael Fiday—Dharma Pops
Oct 4 2009. 061
Philip Glass / Robert Moran—The Juniper Tree (excerpts)
Mark Alburger—Symphony No. 1
Oct 11 2009, rebroadcast of Sep 27 2009
Oct 18 2009. 065
Tomas Svoboda—Nine Etudes in Fugue Style, Vol. 1
Arne Running—Concertino for English Horn and String Orchestra
Mark Olivieri—Hommage à trois
Oct 25 2009. 066
Klaus George Roy—Inaugural Fantasia
Paul Epstein—Landscape Variations: Book II
C. Bryan Rulon—Res Facta
Steve Reich—Electric Counterpoint
Nov 1 2009. 067
John Zorn—Makahaa
Michael Angell—Sojourn
Jennifer Higdon—Impressions
Beth Anderson—Belgian Tango
John Zorn—Samarkan
Nov 8 2009. 068
Anna Weesner—Falling In
Christopher Berg—Portrait en miniature de Madame de Sévigné
Rodney Rogers—Two Views
Nov 15 2009, no broadcast
Nov 22 2009. 064
Mark Hagerty—High Octane
Robert J. Bradshaw—Solo No. 7 “Elucidate”
Joel Mandelbaum—Light and Shade
Jane O’Leary—Silenzio della Terra
Rain Worthington—Yet Still Night
Nov 29 2009. 069
Cornelius Dufallo—transcendence
Robert Maggio—Aristotle
Michael Gandolfi—The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Part 2
Cornelius Dufallo—waiting for you
Cornelius Dufallo—lighthouse
Cornelius Dufallo—naiad
Dec 6 2009. 070
Beata Moon—Submerged
Matthew Greenbaum—on the river the shadowy group
C. James Sheppard—Blue River
Jerod Impichchaachaahá Tate—Tracing Mississippi, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Ronn McFarlane—Uncharted Waters
Dec 13 2009, no broadcast
Dec 20 2009, no broadcast
Dec 27 2009. 073
Ronn McFarlane—Early Christmas Morning
John Harbison—The Three Wise Men
Carson Cooman—It is I, from Revelations of Divine Love
Michael Horvit—Concerto for Brass Quintet and Orchestra
David Bennett Thomas—O Magnum Mysterium
Justin Rubin—Variations on “Nun kom’, der Heiden Heiland”