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fullyabstract, 9 months ago to transgender

I was asked by my department head if I was interested in being the faculty representative at the big women in computing conference in Orlando. I replied that as a trans woman it's now “functionally illegal" for me to go to Florida. As in technically not illegal, but impossible to do so in a way that both complies with the law and is safe. Shocked that it's come to this. #Transgender #Florida

fullyabstract, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to boston

Vocal music by John Aylward, Stanley Grill, Jocelyn Hagen & Tobias Picker - featuring Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Odyssey Opera, Lisa Rombach & Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, University of Michigan Chamber Choir, and many more singers - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (9/25/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #Opera

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings @stanleygrill @bmop

fullyabstract, 5 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, 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, 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, 3 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, 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, 25 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, 11 months ago to boston

Chamber music for strings by Eleanor Alberga, Liova Bueno, Bryce Dessner, Niloufar Iravani, Nasim Khorassani & JG Thirlwell - with Aizuri Quartet, Callisto Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Sirius Quartet, Ben Verdery / Ulysses Quartet, and Katherine Bormann / Eliesha Nelson / Brian Thornton - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (6/19/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical @wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Aizuri Quartet’s Azica Records album “Earthdrawn Skies”, featuring a photo collage including an upside down mountain.
Cover of Ben Verdery & Ulysses Quartet’s ReEntrant album “A Giant Beside You” featuring a monochrome painting of two ships in danger of going over a waterfall
Cover of Brian Thornton & Iranian Female Composers Association’s album “Sirventés” featuring a drawing of a half woman (bottom) / half cello (top) figure, with streaming black hair.

fullyabstract, 4 days ago to boston

Orchestral music by George Enescu, Lukas Foss, Lawrence Mumford & Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - featuring Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Nikki Chooi, Orchestre National de France & Choeur de Radio France, & Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (5/20/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #OrchestralMusic #ModernClassical

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor JoAnn Falletta’s Naxos American Classics album “Lukas Foss: Symphony No. 1”, featuring an abstract painting of Foss.
Cover of Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s BMOP/sound album “Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 5”, featuring an abstract colorful image of an orchestra being conducted.
Cover of Navona Records’s album “Symphonic Chronicles Vol III”, featuring a wintry scene of a lighthouse, seen through a porthole inside a wreath.

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to boston

Orchestral music by Margaret Brandman, Richard E Brown, Nancy Galbraith, Stanley Grill, Jóhann Jóhannsson & Michael Roush - featuring Boston Modern Orch Project & Alyssa Wang, Brno Contemporary Orch, Iceland Symphony Orch, Moravian Philharmonic Orch, New York Classical Players & Royal Scottish National Orch - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (1/22/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical
@wmbr @contemporarymusic
@womencomposers

Cover of Navona Record’s album “Symphonic Chronicles Vol II”, featuring a graphic design with a wreath of vegetation on a black background with a seascape in the center, including a woman/girl looking out at a sailboat.
Cover of Richard E Brown’s Navona Records album “Voices of the Night”, featuring a dark impressionistic nightscape.
Cover of Nancy Galbraith and Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s BMOP/sound album “Everything Flows”, featuring a photo of a snaking river on a flat landscape, with clouds and the sun in the distance.

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.

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Music for and with wind instruments by John Gordon Armstrong, Craig Michael Davis, Timothy Hagen, Timothy Kramer, Kerrith Livengood, Shawn E. Okpebholo & William Toutant - featuring Elicio Winds, Rane Moore & Mike Williams, Altered Sound Duo, & Lara Deutsch & Adam Cicchillitti - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (11/27/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

Cover of the Navona Records album “Lock & Key, Vol. III”, featuring a little house inside a tree, with a bird holding in its mouth the key to a little door.
Cover of John Gordon Armstrong’s Centrediscs album “Vistas”, featuring a painting of a seascape with water in the foreground and an island with trees in the background.

fullyabstract, 2 months ago to boston

Interview with Amelia LeClair and Music by Ethyl Smyth and Hilary Tann - featuring Cappella Clausura, Natalya Romaniw / Claire Barnett-Jones / Robert Murray / BBC Singers / BBC Symphony Orchestra, & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (2/26/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #EthylSmyth #Opera

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Resonus Classics’s album “Ethel Smyth: Der Wald (The Forest)”, featuring a black and white photo of a forest.
Cover of Cappella Clausura’s Navona Records album, “Luminara Magna”, featuring an abstract painting with horizontal patterns of bright colors on a yellow background.
Cappella Clausura and Shift Orchestra Project’s advertisement for their upcoming performance of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D, featuring a photo of the composer in half profile wearing a suit and tie - with the ensemble blurred in the background. March 3rd 2024 @ 4pm CAPPELLA CLAUSURA Emmanuel Church 15 Newbury St. Boston, MA 02116

fullyabstract, 1 month 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

@wmbr
@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, 4 months ago to boston

Electronic and electroacoustic music by Doug Bielmeier, David Congo, Robert Gross, Colin Kemper, Kerrith Livengood & MC Maguire on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (1/8/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ElectronicMusic #Electroacoustic #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

Cover of MC Maguire’s Neuma Records album “Dystophilia”, featuring a futuristic cityscape with the buildings overgrown with green vegetation.
Cover of Robert Gross’s New Focus Recordings album “Penumbra”, featuring a black disc with a fiery ring around it, all on a black background.
Cover of the Ravello Records album “Mind & Machine, Volume Five”, featuring an abstract graphic in blues and purples suggesting an amalgam of a brain and a machine.

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Music for and with piano by Sean Clarke, Malcolm Forsyth, Gabriela Lena Frank, Gregory T. Glancey, Ronald Hannah & Hee Yun Kim - featuring Darryl Friesen, Margaret Carey & Roger Admiral, Kei Endo, Junghwa Lee, Christopher Devine, & Sunmi Chang & Clara Yang - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/4/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #Piano #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Margeret Carey and Roger Admiral’s Centrediscs album “Enigmatic Variations”, featuring a design with blocks in the center populated with a bear, elk, beaver and buffalo on squares around a small circle, all on top of textile art, including colors of the rainbow.
Cover of Ronald Hannah’s PGMaudio album “Music for Piano and Organ”, featuring a photo of a tree in the foreground with a city shrouded in mist in the background, and the sky colored blue
Cover of Sunmi Chang & Clara Yang’s Navona Records album “Mother Tales”, featuring a design with a seated woman in profile, surrounded by drawings of Chang and Yang, plus the composers Florence Price, Gabriela Lena Frank, Liliya Ugay and Amy Beach.

fullyabstract, 11 months ago to boston

Music for voices by Reiko Füting, Fredrick Gifford, David T. Little and Peter S. Shin - with Seth Parker Woods, Roomful of Teeth, Hanna Herfurtner, Susi Wirth, Olivia Stahn, Auditivvokal Dresden & Ensemble Adapter, and Timur and the Dime Museum & Isaura String Quartet - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (6/12/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #VocalMusic @wmbr @contemporarymusic @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of David T. Little's Cantaloupe Music album "Black Lodge", featuring a photo of a man's (?) face, split vertically in half, with the two parts slightly offset, and the title written vertically down the divide.
Cover of Seth Parker Woods Cedille Records album "Difficult Grace", featuring a painting of Woods - a Black man wearing dark patterned clothes - playing the cello, with multi-colored people in the background.
Cover of Roomful of Teeth's New Amsterdam Records album "Rough Magic", featuring an abstract collage of a standing women surrounded by colored chaos.

fullyabstract, 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to boston

Music by Chick Corea, Hugo Montenegro & Heitor Villa-Lobos - featuring Joseph Alessi, Camila Provenzale, Philharmonia Zürich & UNLV Wind Orchestra - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (10/23/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #Jazz #BrazilianMusic @wmbr @contemporarymusic

fullyabstract, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to boston

Music for piano by William Bland, Chen Yi, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Tamas Szigyarto & Michael Torke - featuring Sarah Cahill & Kevin Gorman - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (8/14/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #WomenComposers #Piano

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

fullyabstract, 2 months 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, 1 month ago to boston

Music for orchestra and large ensemble by Enrico Chapela, Nova Pon & Michael Torke - featuring Portland Symphony Orchestra, Michael Torke Orchestra & East Coast Chamber Orchestra, & Turning Point Ensemble - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/1/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #Orchestral

@contemporarymusic @womencomposers @wmbr

Cover of Michael Torke’s Ecstatic Records album “Unseen”, featuring a closeup in half profile of a human eye.
Cover of Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Navona Records album “Máscaras” (Spanish for “masks”), featuring an image of a harp on a black background.

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, 11 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.