Composer Mailbag

We’re having a ball trying to keep up with our ever-expanding musical collection as composers and performers around the world joyously   overwhelm us with their creations.

We’re consistently amazed by their  level of talent and artistry, and are thrilled this week to share it  with our listeners.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Produced by Jesse McQuarters

Greg Bowers: String Quartet No. 2, By-products of Mass Media

III. I’11/Artifly Away Songfact

The Boston String Quartet

Kolbeinn Einarsson: The Indigenous Spirit

Tobias Guttman, Marimba, Percussion; Ingólfur Vilhjalmsson, bass clarinet

Jonathan Kirk: The Metal Cicadas for Amplified Violin and Amplified Cello

Anna Cromwell, violin; Mira Frisch, vc.

Dan Cooper: Design Duo

Lynn Bechtold, violin; Jennifer DeVore, cello

Stephen Paulus: From Within fr. Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra,

Three Places of Enlightenment

Nashville Symphony/Giancarlo Guerrero; Jun Iwasaki, vln I; Carolynn Wann

Bailey, vln II; Daniel Reinker, vla; Anthony LaMarchina, vc.

Debra Kaye: And So It Begins, II. Andante

Javier Oviedo, ten sax; Amy Kimball & Lynn Bechtold, violins; Entela Barci, vla.;

Garo Yellin, vc.; Frank Wagner, double bass/Charles Coleman

Eric Chasalow: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, III. Distant

Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose; Bruno Schneider, horn

Nathan Lincoln DeCusatis: Oblivion, III. The Reckoning

Inscape/Richard Scerbo