NewFocusRecordings

fullyabstract, 4 days ago to boston

Innovative chamber music by Rick Baitz, Joel Chadabe, Gabriel Dharmoo, Juan J.G. Escudero, Yi-Ting Lu & Scott Wollschleger on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (5/13/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords

Cover of Gabriel Dharmoo and Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Centrediscs album “Vestiges d'une fable”, featuring a frightening painting of fragments of faces all jumbled up.
Cover of Rick Baitz’s Neuma Records album “River of January”, featuring an abstract painting involving textured rectangles of different sizes.
Cover of Yi-Ting Lu’s New Focus Recordings album “An Unopened Seashell”, featuring a splash of bright colors on a white background.

fullyabstract, 18 days ago to boston

Music for voices by Clarice Assad, Lainie Fefferman, Reiko Füting & Alex Weiser - featuring Inna Faliks, Vocalconsort labia vocalia, Meaghan Burke, Martha Cluver, Caroline Shaw & TRANSIT New Music, Annie Rosen, & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/29/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #VocalMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Reiko Füting’s New Focus Recordings album “brokenSong”, featuring a photo of glass fronted skyscrapers.
Cover of pianist Inna Faliks’s Sono Luminus album “Manuscripts Don’t Burn”, featuring a headshot of performer, with part of the left side of her head and her left shoulder cut off.
Cover of Alex Weiser’s Cantaloupe Music album “in a dark blue night”, featuring a painting of Manhattan at night, with the skyscrapers looking a bit like lighted candles.

fullyabstract, 25 days ago to boston

Music by Robert Carl, James Díaz, J.P.A. Falzone, Austin Oting Har & Wadada Leo Smith - featuring Arditti Quartet, Julia Jung Un Suh, Large Furniture, Laura Wachsmann, Ostrava New Orchestra, RedKoral Quartet & Robert Black - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/22/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic

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@contemporarymusic
@NewFocusRecordings
@NeumaRecords

Cover of J.P.A. Falzone’s New World Records album “A Curving Abacus”, featuring a graphic with unfolding planar graphs on a white background.
Cover of Austin Oting Har’s Neuma Records album “The World Between Worlds / Ataraxia”, featuring a graphic of what looks like abstract sand dunes.
Cover of Robert Carl’s Neuma Records album “Infinity Avenue”, featuring a graphic of a orangish textured, stretched surface with scattered gaps in it, showing black underneath.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

Music for wind instruments by Ferdinando DeSena, Elizabeth Hoffman, Pascal Le Boeuf, Paolo Marchettini & Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - featuring Akropolis Reed Quintet / Le Boeuf / Christian Euman, Arcadian Winds, Glass Farm Ensemble, Sarah Brady / Boston Modern Orchestra Project, & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/15/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #Winds

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords

Cover of Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf & Christian Euman’s Bright Shiny Things album “Are We Dreaming The Same Dream?”, featuring bunches of colorful yarn loosely braided together.
Cover of Glass Farm Ensemble’s Neuma Records album “Nieuw Amsterdam New York”, featuring a photo of the city’s buildings in silhouette, with a bluish tint.
Cover of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s and Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s BMOP/sound album “Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 5”, featuring an abstract image suggesting a conductor conducting an orchestra.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

Innovative vocal music by Justine F. Chen, Kate Soper, Diego Tedesco, Jorge Diego Vázquez Salvagno & Ania Vu - featuring The Crossing, TAK Ensemble, Natalia Cappa, & Hirona Amamiya / Christiana Cole / Brett Umlauf - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/8/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #VocalMusic

@wmbr @NewFocusRecordings @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Kate Soper’s New Focus Recordings album “The Hunt”, featuring the three soprano performers in costume on a black background, with inverted versions of perhaps themselves descending from above - and “The Hunt” in graphic letters on top.
Cover of The Crossing’s Navona Records album “Motion Studies”, featuring a graphic with a searchlight with a purple base streaming light upward - all on a textured turquoise background.
Cover of Society of Composers, Inc.’s Navona Records album “Transitions and Apotheosis”, featuring a colorful graphic of a vertical city in the clouds.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

Women's Week @ WMBR: Art songs by Amy Cheney Beach, Margaret Bonds, Edie Hill, Monica Houghton, Jessica Meyer & Sarah Kirkland Snider - featuring Renée Fleming, Jonathan King, Emily Jaworski Koriath, Will Liverman, Lorelei Ensemble, Emily Marvosh, Andrew White & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (3/25/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ArtSongs #WomenComposers

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Will Liverman and and Jonathan King’s Cedille Records album “Show Me The Way”, featuring squares with photos of the various performers.
Cover of Emily Jaworski Koriath & Tad Koriath’s Naxos American Classics album “These Distances Between Us (21st Century Songs of Longing”, featuring a time lapsed image of an empty highway at night, with city lights in the distance.
Cover of Monica Houghton’s Navona Records album “Breath of Air: American Art Song”, featuring a close up of a robin with the background of trees out of focus.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

Innovative music for wind instruments by Sang Mi Ahn, Linda Bouchard, Christopher Burns, Tessa Brinckman, Linda Dusman, Ruby Fulton & David Leon - with Heidi Radtke, Kyle Bruckmann / EKG, E. Michael Richards / Patrick Crossland, David Leon / DoYeon Kim / Lesley Mok, & Tessa Brinckman - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (3/18/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NeumaRecords @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Kyle Bruckmann’s New Focus Recordings album “of rivers”, featuring a graphic with vertical narrow bands of blues.
Cover of David Leon’s Pyroclastic Records album “Bird's Eye” featuring a thin vertical stripe of dark blue, red and green on a tan background
Cover of Linda Dusman’s Neuma Records album “Flashpoint”, featuring a midnight blue cover with two bolts of arching light coming from the left and almost intersecting.

fullyabstract, 2 months ago to contemporarymusic

Vocal music by Jeffrey Gavett, Erin Gee, Caroline Shaw & Karlheinz Stockhausen - featuring Ekmeles, Roomful of Teeth & Singcircle - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (2/19/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #ModernClassical #VocalMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Roomful of Teeth’s self-titled New Amsterdam Records debut album, featuring an abstract image with a bold red horizontal bar across a black textured background.
Cover of Singcircle’s Hyperion Records album “Stockhausen: Stimmung”, featuring a golden lifelike mask with eyes closed on a black background.

fullyabstract, 3 months ago to boston

Music for and with woodwinds by Amy Brandon, Nathan Froebe, Norio Fukushi, Andile Khumalo, Jared Miller, Osnat Netzer & Jim Rhinehart - with Ensemble Dal Niente, Exponential Ensemble, Tessa Brinckman, Jessica Raposo & Mihoko Watanabe, Cecily Terhune & Carly Hood, & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (2/12/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #Woodwinds

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Exponential Ensemble’s American Modern Recordings album “Matters of Time”, featuring a monochrome cover with a sundial and a glimpse of sun in the top right corner.
Cover of Osnat Netzer’s New Focus Recordings album “Dot : Line : Sigh”, featuring a colorful graphic suggesting vegetation in four panels.
Cover of Cecily Terhune & Carly Hood’s Ravello Records album “Boon Bestowed”, featuring a fantasy style illustration of heroes.

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to boston

Music for percussion by Jerome Begin, Yu-Hui Chang, Douglas R. Ewart/Christian Asplund/Steven Ricks, Missy Mazzoli & Ayanna Woods - with Composers Conference Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, Ewart Asplund Ricks Trio, Sandbox Percussion & Third Coast Percussion - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (1/15/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords

Cover of Sandbox Percussion’s Better Company Records album “Wilderness”, featuring a blurred image of thousands of overlapping white circles on a black background.
Cover of Yu-Hui Chang’s New Focus Recordings album “Mind Like Water”, featuring a painting of a mass of organic shapes in grays at the bottom with drops of water above on a light background above.
Cover of Ewart Asplund Ricks Trio’s Neuma Records album “Emphatic Now”, featuring a geometic shape with big, connected lines but also sections with webs of detail, all on a textured gray background.

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to boston

Chamber music with strings by David Bird, Linda Dusman, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, Angelique Poteat & Mari Tamaki - with JACK Quartet, Sirius Quartet, Laura DeLuca, Gita Ladd & Daniel Pesca, & Airi Yoshioka - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/18/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords

Cover of Angelique Poteat’s Navona Records album “Six Seasons”, featuring a design with six vertical panels illustrating the seasons, with a clarinet along the bottom crossing the seasons.
Cover of Linda Dusman’s Neuma Records album “Flashpoint”, featuring an image of two bolts of light converging on a very dark blue background
Cover of Mari Tamaki’s Navona Records album “Retrograde”, featuring a wild, colorful illustration of a fantasy city, including a frog smoking a pipe on a yellow aerial train line

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Electronic and electroacoustic music by Philip Blackburn, Peter Gena, Robert Gross, Emily Hall, Eric Moe & Julia Wolfe - Ryland Angel & Nirmala Rajasekar, Anne McKennon, David Russell & Rakhi Singh - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ElectronicMusic #Electroacoustic

@wmbr @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords @womencomposers

Cover of Philip Blackburn’s Neuma Records album “ORDO”, featuring an image of a kaleidoscope in blues in a wicker basket.
Cover of Robert Gross’s New Focus Recordings album “Penumbra”, featuring a ring of fire around a black disc on a black background.
Cover of Eric Moe’s New Focus Recordings album “Strenuous Pleasures”, featuring a painting of an abstact landscope, with mountains in the background.

fullyabstract, 6 months ago to boston

Choral Music by Joanna Estelle, Nico Muhly & David Shapiro - featuring Byrd Ensemble, The Crossing, Ewashko Singers & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (11/13/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #ChoralMusic

@wmbr @NewFocusRecordings @womencomposers

Cover of Joanna Estelle’s Navona Records album “Transmutuation”, featuring a painting (?) of the sky with clouds - without any depth of reference point.
Cover of Byrd Ensemble’s Scribe Records album “Penitence & Lamentation”, featuring a Biblical era bearded man looking up at a dark sky with a dove in the single area of sunlight over the clouds, but also a dark bird.