From the Vaults, Part Three: Meet the Composer With Otto Luening
Meet the Composer
English - March 01, 2017 05:00 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 219 ratingsMusic Commentary Music Arts Performing Arts wqxr composers artists music interviews sound design classical Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota – Q2 Music's podcast about the musical creative process – returns for its third season on Monday, March 6. Pre-game for the new season with a week of clips from the original WNYC radio program. Meet the Composer is available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
Today's blast from the past features the composers and electronic experimentalists Alvin Lucier and Otto Luening. Page introduces us to Lucier's seminal tape piece, I am sitting in a room, and Luening tells the story of his first foray into electronic composition. Luening also wonders at the interest a younger generation has taken in his very earliest music, decades after its conception.
Hear a piece of music you loved in the show? Discover it here!
0:05—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy
0:55—Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room | Listen | Buy
3:37—Otto Luening: String Quartet No. 2 | Buy
3:48—Otto Luening: Low Speed | Listen | Buy
5:27—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313 | Listen | Buy
5:43—Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space | Listen | Buy
6:29—Otto Luening: Incantation | Listen | Buy
6:46—Benjamin Britten: Missa Brevis in D, Op. 63 | Listen | Buy
7:39—Otto Luening: String Quartet No. 2 | Buy
Otto Luening was a forefather of experimental electronic music and a life-long educator, flutist and composer. In this 1985 interview with host Tim Page, from the original WNYC program called Meet the Composer, Luening tells the story of his first electronic experiments and wonders why audiences had found new interest in some of his earliest works. We also take a look at Alvin Lucier, another tape music maverick, as we prepare for the start of our new season on Monday.
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Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.
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