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fullyabstract, 1 day ago to boston

Music by Erica Dicker / Eli Wallace / Deric Dickens, Orlando Jacinto García, Sarah Hennies, Mathew Rosenblum & Jason Treuting - featuring Sō Percussion / Beth Meyers / Grey Mcmurray / Angélica Negrón / Alex Sopp ..., Jamie Jordan / Talujon Percussion, ensemble 0, & Adrían Sandí - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (5/27/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #NewMusic

@contemporarymusic
@womencomposers
@NewFocusRecordings
@wmbr

Cover of Orlando Jacinto García’s New Focus Recordings album “la vida que vendrá”, featuring what looks like a photo of waves breaking on black rocks, on a black background.
Cover of Mathew Rosenblum’s Cantaloupe Music album “We Lived Happily During the War”, featuring a photo of shadows of three people against a concrete building.
Cover of Sarah Hennies’s New World Records album “Motor Tapes”, featuring a model of the brain with red blood vessals, sticking out of a transparent model of a face.

fullyabstract, 8 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, 10 days ago to boston

Enjoyed the listening session this evening at the MIT Spatial Sound Lab: Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”, in quadraphonic surround.

#Boston #Cambridge #MIT

fullyabstract, 15 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

In a special fill-in show this (5/8/24) evening from 8-9pm, I'm revisiting some of the music of my youth, including songs from the first albums I purchased. Broadcasting on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM, streaming on https://wmbr.org, and available for 2 weeks in our archive.

#Boston #Radio @wmbr

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fullyabstract, 21 days ago to random

“Shibboleth”, by Zadie Smith in The New Yorker

In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/shibboleth-the-role-of-words-in-the-campus-protests

#ZadieSmith #Gaza #StudentSpring

(Gift links are, sadly, not supported.)

fullyabstract, 22 days ago to boston

Choral music on environmental themes by Christopher Cerrone, Nicholas Cline & Jeffrey Derus - featuring The Crossing, Lorelei Ensemble / Matthew Levy & Choral Arts Initiative - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (5/6/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ChoralMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

Cover of The Crossing’s Navona Records album “Motion Studies”, featuring a graphic of a large spotlight shining a wide beam upward, with the album’s title in the beam
Cover of Jeffrey Derus’s Navona Records album “From Wilderness”, featuring a photo of a mountain lake at twilight with a tree covered ridge on the left bank, the smooth lake surface reflecting the purple sky.

fullyabstract, 28 days ago to random

“But for Ms. Gendreau, 62, who was also a state senator representing northern New Hampshire, the mural had set off alarms. She was certain there were subversive messages in its imagery, planted there by the nonprofit group that had planned and paid for it.

The group was North Country Pride, founded four years ago to build more visible support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the rural region.”

#GiftLink

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/us/littleton-new-hampshire-mural.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n00.8LKH.Z1-JIXMocWg3&smid=url-share

fullyabstract, 29 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, 1 month ago to animals

Good morning, sunshine! #CatsOfMastodon

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

I'm doing a special fill-in show of genre-defying rock/pop this evening at 8pm on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ArtRock

@wmbr

Cover of Elvis Costello and the Attractions’s album “Imperial Bedroom”, featuring Barney Bubbles’s pastiche of Pablo Picasso's “Three Musicians”.
Cover of Joni Mitchell’s album “Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter”, featuring a photomontage of three images of Mitchell, on in her Black persona.
Cover of John Cale and Lou Reed’s album “Songs for Drella”, featuring photos of Reed (left) and Cale (right) on a black background, on which a ghostly image of their subject Andy Warhol is visible.

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, 1 month ago to boston

A beautiful spring afternoon walking toward Kenmore Square in Boston today.

#Boston #Spring

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 random

Oh fun, in order to electronically sign my tax returns, the identity verification process used by AssureSign asked me which of several phone numbers and names were “associated" with me - and they were both for my ex. Way to make my day just a little big worse.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to random

Experienced totality on a snow covered hill in Northern Vermont. “Totally” awesome.

#Eclipse2024

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 animals

Cedric found a box with just the right size!

#CatsOfMastodon

Large tabby cat in box he barely fits in, all contorted.
Large tabby cat in box he barely fits in, contorted, with head visible.
Large tabby cat in box he barely fits in, on back, grooming paw.

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

Saw Wim Wenders’s new film Perfect Days at Coolidge Corner Theatre this afternoon, and it was superb. In typical Wenders fashion, the plot is very slow, gradually connecting you with the characters. Kôji Yakusho as the protagonist is amazing. When the credits rolled, I found myself weeping. What a lovely, gentle, deeply moving film!

#Boston #Brookline #CoolidgeCornerTheatre #Film #WimWenders #PerfectDays

fullyabstract, 2 months 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, 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, 2 months ago to boston

Chamber music by Ferdinando DeSena, Jan Järvlepp, Andrew Lewinter & Florian Hoefner - featuring Benda Quartet, Iris Trio, Trio Casals & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (3/11/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

Cover of Andrew Lewinter’s Navona Records album “Music for Brass & Piano”, featuring a black and white graphic with a piano keyboard on top and brass instruments at the bottom.
Cover of Benda Quartet’s Navona Records album “Quadrants Vol. 5”, featuring a graphic with timepieces and gauges and other objects on a black background.
Cover of Iris Trio’s CMC Centrediscs album “Project Earth: The Blue Chapter”, featuring an image of blue water, and a hint of sunshine from above, with no objects providing perspective.

fullyabstract, 2 months ago to boston

A path of fresh mulch in the Arnold Arboretum this afternoon - which in person looked more like a Yellow Brick Road than in this photo.

#Boston #ArnoldArboretum

fullyabstract, 2 months ago to boston

Music by Meredith Bates, Rose Bolton, William Brittelle, Rachael Coleman, Claire Dickson, Gordon Grdina & Christian Lillinger, & Julia Mermelstein - Holland Andrews / Jenn Wasner / Eliza Bagg / Metropolis Ensemble, Glenn Dickson, Leslie Ting - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (3/4/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ElectronicMusic #ModernClassical

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of William Brittelle, Metropolis Ensemble, Holland Andrews, Jenn Wasner & Eliza Bagg’s New Amsterdam Records album “Alive in the Electric Snow Dream”, featuring a weird collage of a mountainscape.
Cover of Claire Dickson’s New Amsterdam Records album “The Beholder”, featuring a (dead?) blue bird hung upside down in front of a gold frame with no painting in it, and over an open urn with the lid off.
Cover of Leslie Ting’s People Places Records album “What Brings You In”, featuring a rainbow in a V coming down to a sharp point on a hazy sky-like background.