Compact Discoveries 168: Modern Melodies
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
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Lots of folks are prejudiced against modern "classical" music. That's because the music world went through a period when many contemporary composers wrote atonal, dissonant and altogether tuneless music. But now living composers are returning to writing music lay listeners can enjoy on first hearing, and a selection of these pieces is presented in this hour. The program includes works by James Cohn, Phil Rosheger, Nikolai Kapustin, Michael Sahl, Lita Grier, and Sandrine Erdely-Sayo.
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Lots of folks are prejudiced against modern "classical" music. That's because the music world went through a period when many contemporary composers wrote atonal, dissonant and altogether tuneless music. But now living composers are returning to writing music lay listeners can enjoy on first hearing, and a selection of these pieces is presented in this hour. The program includes works by James Cohn, Phil Rosheger, Nikolai Kapustin, Michael Sahl, Lita Grier, and Sandrine Erdely-Sayo.
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Compact Discoveries®
a series of one-hour radio programs produced, written, hosted, and edited by Fred Flaxman
©2010 by Fred Flaxman
Program 168: "Modern Melodies"
MUSIC: James Cohn: Variations on “Muskrat Ramble” performed by Mirian Conti, piano [XLNT Music CD-18012, track 10] [under the following] [3:07]
Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman.
Lots of folks are prejudiced against modern “classical” music, including me. That’s because we’ve gone through a period when many contemporary composers wrote atonal, dissonant and altogether tuneless music.
But now living composers are returning to writing music lay listeners can enjoy on first hearing, so I’m going to devote the next hour to tuneful music by living composers. At least they were living when I recorded this program. They include James Cohn, who wrote the Variations on “Muskrat Ramble” that...
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