We're kicking off Season Three of Meet the Composer with a look beyond the composer to the performer, that unusual intermediary between the artist and the audience. How do performers from different cultures, who speak different languages, come together to perform the same piece? What happens when an ensemble completely messes up... and the audience loves it? How does a piece change when it’s played nonstop for twelve hours?


We explore these questions and more, taking a seat on stage as we find out what it’s like to experience music from the inside-out.


Hear a piece of music you loved? Discover it here!


0:59—David Lang: Just | Listen | Buy 
4:51—Kayhan Kalhor: Silent City | Listen 
6:04—Kayhan Kalhor: Silent City | Listen 
9:30—Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A minor | Listen | Buy 
11:13—Evan Ziporyn: Sulvasutra | Listen | Buy
14:39—Kayhan Kalhor: Silent City | Listen 
15:09—The xx: Lips | Listen | Buy
17:08—Georg Friedrich Haas: Limited Approximations | Listen 
18:13—Georg Friedrich Haas: String Quartet No. 3 | Listen 
19:44—Georg Friedrich Haas: Morgen und Abend | Listen 
20:59—W.A. Mozart: The Magic Flute | Listen | Buy 
23:05—Georg Friedrich Haas: Hyperion | Listen 
24:00—Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 | Listen | Buy 
24:22—Georg Friedrich Haas: In Nomine | Listen | Buy 
27:13—Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata No 21 in C minor, D 958 | Listen | Buy  
34:36—The National: Sorrow | Listen | Buy 
37:09—W.A. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, "Contessa perdono" | Listen | Buy 
44:33—Nico Muhly: Mothertongue, "I. Archive" | Listen | Buy 

We're kicking off Season Three with a look beyond the composer to the performer, that unusual intermediary between the artist and the audience. How do performers from different cultures, who speak different languages, come together to perform the same piece? What happens when an ensemble completely messes up... and the audience loves it? How does a piece change when it’s played nonstop for twelve hours?


We explore these questions and more, taking a seat on stage as we find out what it’s like to experience music from the inside-out.  


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About the podcast:


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.


Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposerLike Meet the Composer on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer


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