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fullyabstract, 8 months ago (edited 8 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, 9 months ago to boston

Orchestral music by Sergio Cervetti, Paul Frehner, Reynaliz Herrera & Rae Howell - featuring Hamilton Philharmonic, Ideas, Not Theories Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Sunwrae String Orchestra - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (8/28/23) 4-5:30 pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #Orchestral #WomenComposers

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Paul Frehner’s Centrediscs album “Sometimes the Devil Plays Fate”, featuring a painting with a stylized sun at the top, and I guess the moon at the bottom, upside down, but with a root system coming out of the moon (or the Devil?) leading to two hands controlling two people, like puppets.
Cover of Reynaliz Herrera’s self-released album “BIKEncerto: a concerto for solo bicycle and orchestra”, featuring a photo of Herrera crouching behind a bicycle, playing it and several bike wheels with drum sticks.
Cover of Navona Records’s album “Sparks: Eye of London”, featuring a graphic of fireworks with the London Eye in the background on the left.

fullyabstract, 6 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, 6 months ago to boston

Music for voices by Douglas Boyce, George Lewis, Afarin Mansouri & Carlos Simon - featuring Afarin Mansouri, International Contemporary Ensemble / Joelle Lamarre / Gwendolyn Brown / Julian Terrell Otis, counter)induction / Marlanda Dekine, Marc Bamuthi Joseph / Minnesota Orchestra & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/11/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #VocalMusic

@wmbr @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of George Lewis and International Contemporary Ensemble’s Tundra Records album “Afterword”, featuring what seems to be a scene from the opera, featuring five Black characters.
Cover of Douglas Boyce’s New Focus Recordings album “The Bird is an Alphabet”, featuring a card for recognizing a particular bird on a green background
Cover of Carlos Simon, Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Minnesota Orchestra’s Decca Classics album “brea(d)th”, featuring a photo of a “Say Their Names” display in a field

fullyabstract, 6 months ago to animals

Cat style

#CatsOfMastodon

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

And now for something completely different!

This (12/28/23) afternoon I’m hosting a fill-in radio show on WMBR completely outside my usual modern classical wheelhouse.

I’ll be taking listeners on a tour of the indie band scene in Kansas in the 90s, playing music by Action Man, The Creature Comforts, Exit 159, Kill Creek, El Fontain, Sufferbus,Truck Stop Love & Ultimate Fakebook.

From 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org.

#Radio #Boston #IndieRock

Cover of Exit 159’s album “A Song For Every Mood”, featuring a photo of the three member band.
Cover of Truck Stop Love’s self-titled album, featuring a distorted image of the Johnny Kaw statue from the city park in Manhattan, Kansas.
Cover of Kill Creek’s album “St. Valentine’s Garage”, featuring a cook preparing trays of heart shaped cookies.

fullyabstract, 6 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, 10 months ago to boston

Chamber music by Violet Archer, Lawrence Axelrod, Leonard Bernstein, Gerald Cohen, David Jaeger & Sarah Wallin Huff - featuring Cassatt String Quartet & Narek Arutyunian, Lakeshore Rush, Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet & much more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (8/7/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical
#ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Saxophilia Saxophone Quartet’s Redshift Records album “Metamorphosis”, featuring a painting of what looks like a floral circuit board in the foreground with stylized red and pink flowers in the background.
Cover of the Navona Records album of Leonard Bernstein’s “Music for String Quartet (1936)”, featuring a photograph of the conductor as a young man.
Cover of Sarah Wallin Huff’s Navona Records album “Shards”, featuring an image of a red rose that is shattering into fragments.

fullyabstract, 10 months ago (edited 10 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, 9 months ago to animals

Last day of cat sitting! #CatsOfMastodon

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Working on the 400th episode of my weekly modern classical music radio program, “Not Brahms and Liszt” - to be aired on Christmas Day. I've been producing it week after week (with very few breaks) since September 28, 2015.

You can find out more about my program at the show's website:

https://alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-liszt/

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Music by Vincent Kennedy, Carl Nielsen, Christina Rusnak and Joan Tower - featuring Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Adrian Morejon / Carol Wincenc, Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Johnny Teyssier, Juventas New Music Ensemble, & RTÉ Concert Orchestra - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (1/1/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #OrchestralMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s BMOP/sound album “Joan Tower: Piano Concerto - Homage to Beethoven”, featuring a drawing from above of a human head, with a glum expression.
Cover of Christina Rusnak and Juventas New Music Ensemble’s Navona Records album “Voices of the Land”, featuring a photo of a landscape with a mountain ridge on the left, and a river on the far right.
Cover of Danish National Symphony Orchestra’s Deutsche Grammophon album “Carl Nielsen: The Concertos”, featuring a photo of the composer superimposed over an image of the sea on a gray day.

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Choral music for Christmas Day by Bruno Bettinelli, Jeffrey Derus, Michael Gilbertson, Jeremy Gill & Eric Whitacre - featuring Choral Arts Initiative, The Crossing, University of South Dakota Chamber Singers & Variant 6 - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/25/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #ChoralMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

Cover of Variant 6’s Open G Records album “New Suns”, featuring a blood red flecked with white depression in a white background, with a black disk including the title inside the depression.
Cover of Jeffrey Derus’s Navona Records album “From Wilderness”, featuring a photo of a lake at twilight with evergreen trees on a hill to the left, and stars above, reflected in the lake’s surface.
Cover of The Crossing’s Navona Records album “Born”, featuring a graphic of what looks like a misshapen black bird on a background of reds.

fullyabstract, 11 months ago to boston

Anyone know the story here? #Boston #JamaicaPlain #Transgender #Labor

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to animals

Cedric enjoying that brief winter sunlight #CatsOfMastodon

fullyabstract, 10 months ago to animals

Cedric just woke up! #CatsOfMastodon

fullyabstract, 7 months ago (edited 7 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, 11 months ago to beer

Even though I haven't drunk an Anchor Steam for some time, as a former Californian this makes me sad. #beer #CraftBeer #AnchorSteam

[gift link:]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/dining/anchor-brewing-closing-beer.html?unlocked_article_code=JM7T2XVWWh86fW5AOAlqni2Ijyc6JsLn0uYDpRX7cSbtquv7CZbAPZNRnIe4ok2bH8Q9efP9SOMBceM2U930NUN1C07J-yEDJpsSeciPslmrceJqm53NF2Rcd6vsKCD3XHb_OXA7DYEAOXE3qQhsMWzmxm3quM5TDPMYfe_XjppCf3rGZwuvY0oO3RFPHmN6FShDH2u1wIwn24SKQ8iULzjAHa7-v3OeP92AAwx0LulPoVluFA0jfseUG3ehLDoydNZerOA-tDM5ccSXfj3NAn4loFrfDRpdkGbGGYxwYhBvOnwTRIS0bry_MXCyCXAFrmskiAx6WAOdR9YGV71BGXllNxs&smid=url-share

fullyabstract, 7 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, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to boston

Orchestral music by Nan Avant, Samuel Barber, Stanley Grill (@stanleygrill) & Edward Hart - featuring Thomas Bowes / Malmö Opera Orchestra, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Harlem Quartet / Charleston Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Orchestra - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (7/10/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #Orchestral

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

fullyabstract, 11 months ago to random

@stavvers Did you see this? It's a gift link in case you want to post about it.

How Much Do You Know About the Menstrual Cycle?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/22/well/live/period-menstruation-quiz.html?unlocked_article_code=czxoYRqVORMFjl3X0RCw9r5uFALRgJOj3OLNOlrslvymTnZG2Ye3ZaAAiShOHpnmUX3UbSyeCZ69OzI7njRWMM0FFee9coPh0uFf7WFnsW2SNO5akUsYOd6U03Lf8VBWCyAla0GEUJqZ6RZmJ_PG360rsH913stFjwynIxM4cNfVqwti0QQ56tIiqjbSQdhte_bS3xO5VK9nAhq-8NGjqoQarS-SCkfD9u60ZuyA_Xn9oCrAB7bmaju_qWlnGw7hEfL5n3LGbGBHWqs-DjF4x4yH0P4ji2am5KQsTcLikIDM6GYDyT4gkxpk_XpDIr3BCP3CmLYOLKaLNpU-Aqr8eLDU_Lt1_wvfuXXExMgiIba68LV-&smid=url-share

fullyabstract, 6 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.