Gyorgy Kurtag's "Officium Breve"
In this episode, Victor will be providing a solo commentary on the piece "Officium Breve" by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag. His analysis will cover not only general points about the significance of the piece but also specific musical details within the piece. This episode is the first in the lon…
Michael Vincent Waller - A Stream of Conciousness (January 2020)
Michael Vincent Waller is an American composer based in New York. Some describe them as one of the most interesting composing of the big city, and we surely agree. His music has been described as lyrical and introspective, drawing inspiration from impressionism, post-minimalism and world music. The…
Marshall Miles Interviews Oskar Espina Ruiz, Music Mountain Final 2019 Concert September 22
Music Mountain’s primary mission is the performance and teaching of the string quartet literature.
This mission is realized by bringing together professionals, amateurs, adults and children, by developing new audiences and by providing access to the experience of live music.
Now in its ninth …
Vikingur Olafsson
Icelandic born pianist Vikingur Olafsson has not yet made his Pittsburgh debut but he says he hopes to soon. He noticed the reviews of the recent tour by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and he's a Manfred Honeck fan. This season he will play in New York and Berlin having recorded seven highly pra…
Of Wagner, Tubas and Gyorgy Kurtag
Synopsis
It’s said that nature abhors a vacuum — and so, apparently, did Richard Wagner, who devised a brass instrument to bridge a gap he perceived between the horns and the trombones in the orchestra of his day. And so the Wagner tuba was born, a brass instrument Wagner designed for the 1876 prem…
Episode 144: Charles Neidich
In the words of The New Yorker, Charles Neidich “is an artist of uncommon merit -- a master of his instrument and, beyond that, an interpreter who keeps listeners hanging on each phrase.” Charles is the artistic director of the Wa Concert Series at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New …
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