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Contemporary Music - Streaming Audio

Streaming Audio on the Web                                                          More ...
Art of the States                                                                                                      Composers Speak on the Web
Art Radio - various programs                                                                                         and ...   About the Music
Australian Composers - audio samples
Avant Garde Project
BBC Radio 3
bentstrings radio
Brave New World [heard on WUOL Louisville, KY - Mondays @ 8pm]
British Composer Project
Cathedral
CBC Radio 2 - Concerts on Demand (use filter - DISPLAY: Canadian Composer OR Contemporary)
Classical Discoveries
Classical MIDI Connection - The Twentieth Century
Common Tone
Composers Alive! - a program of Accessible Contemporary Music
Composing Thoughts
Composition Today - audio & video
Contemporary Classical Internet Radio
Counterstream Radio
Finnish Music Information Centre - contemporary
Future Radio - On an Overgrown Path
GMN Classical Plus
hallnetradio
Innova.mu
Into the Light Radio  -  The Music of Women Composers
Iridian Radio
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar
New York Women Composers
Knowing the Score [heard on KMFA, Austin, TX - Sundays @ 8pm]
Music From Other Minds
NuMu Unlimited
Other Minds
podfeed.net - classical
PostClassic Radio
radiOM.org
Radio Free Classical
Radio Molecule
Radio SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec)
Radio Wandelweiser
Resonance FM
Sequenza 21 Listening Room
sfSoundRadio
Sounds New Podcast (Canadian Music Centre)
TouchRadio
Vox Novus - click "Audio"
YouTube - contemporary music or try individual composer's name

About the Music
Composers Datebook (American Composers Forum)

Composers Speak on the Web at Pytheas

John Adams
John Adams on John Adams at Pytheas: An American Portrait (WGBH Boston Forum Network) (streaming audio)

Samuel Adler
[under construction]    see  here

Adrienne Albert
Albert on Albert at Pytheas: An interview with Thomas Lenk (KGNU) (streaming audio)

David Amram
Amram on Amram at Pytheas: An Interview at New York Views (VIDEO)
Amram on Amram at Pytheas: Amram's Old Score - On "The Manchurian Candidate (streaming audio)
Amram on Amram at Pytheas: David Amram - From Ellington to Kerouac (streaming audio)
Amram on Amram at Pytheas: The "Open Source" Composer - David Amram (streaming audio)

Dominick Argento ***
Argento on Argento at Pytheas: Classical Conversations w/J. Reilly Lewis (streaming audio)
Argento on Argento at Pytheas: Interview with John Birge (Minnesota Public Radio) (streaming audio)
Argento on Argento at Pytheas: Minnesota Romantic (Minnesota Public Radio) (streaming audio)
Argento on Argento at Pytheas: Argento's Memorial: "Evensong: Of Love and Angels" (streaming audio)
Argento on Argento at Pytheas: New Work Honors Late Wife (Minnesota Public Radio) (streaming audio)

Milton Babbitt ***
Babbitt on Babbitt at Pytheas: Speaking of Music: Babbitt w/Charles Amirkhanian/RadiOM-Internet Archive (streaming audio)
Babbitt on Babbitt at Pytheas: An Interview with Milton Babbitt/American Public Media (streaming audio)
Babbitt on Babbitt at Pytheas: Milton Babbitt at 90 - A 'Difficult' Composer/NPR (streaming audio)
Babbitt on Babbitt at Pytheas: On Being An American Composer (streaming audio/via YouTube)

Claude Baker
[under construction]    see  here

Béla Bartók ***
Bartók on Bartók at Pytheas: Interview from the Ask the Composer (streaming audio/via YouTube)

John Beckwith
Beckwith on Beckwith at Pytheas: The Composer's Chair/Canadian Music Centre (streaming audio)

Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein on Elmer Bernstein at Pytheas: This Is Your Life (2002) (VIDEO)
Elmer Bernstein on Elmer Bernstein at Pytheas: The Composer's Voice (Minnesota Public Radio) (streaming audio)

Seóirse Bodley
Bodley on Bodley at Pytheas: Interviewed on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday (VIDEO)
Bodley on Bodley at Pytheas: An Interview with Seóirse Bodley (Contemporary Music Centre Ireland) (streaming audio)

Benjamin Britten
Britten on Britten at Pytheas: Speaking on Composing (streaming audio)
Britten on Britten at Pytheas: On Composing (streaming audio)

John Cage
Cage on Cage at Pytheas: Opus 20 Modern Masterworks (Documentary) (VIDEO)
Cage on Cage at Pytheas: About Sound (VIDEO)
Cage on Cage at Pytheas: Preparing for "Speach (1955)" (VIDEO)
Cage on Cage at Pytheas: "Water Walk" on "I've Got a Secret" [Jan. 1960] (VIDEO)

Elliott Carter
Carter on Carter at Pytheas: Interview w/Frank J. Oteri (VIDEO)
Carter on Carter at Pytheas: In Conversation with Steven Stucky (VIDEO)
Carter on Carter at Pytheas: Carter Discusses His 100th Birthday Celebrations at Southbank Centre (VIDEO)
Carter on Carter at Pytheas: Interview with Alan Baker/American Mavericks (streaming audio)
Carter on Carter at Pytheas: Elliott Carter: A Life In Music, a documentary (1983) (streaming audio)

Jakub Ciupinski
[under construction]    see  here

Michael Colgrass
Colgrass on Colgrass at Pytheas: BandQuest - On Graphic Notation (VIDEO)

Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland and the American Sound/PBS (Interactive Media)

George Crumb
Crumb on Crumb at Pytheas: West Virginia Public Broadcasting (VIDEO)

Richard Danielpour
[under construction]    see  here

Michael Daugherty
Daugherty on Daugherty at Pytheas: Interview @ Pendulm New Music Series (VIDEO)

Delia Derbyshire
[under construction]    see  here

Daniel Dorff
Dorff on Dorff at Pytheas: An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits) (streaming audio)
Dorff on Dorff at Pytheas: NAMM Oral History Program (VIDEO)

Malcolm Forsyth
Forsyth on Forsyth at Pytheas: The Composer's Chair/Canadian Music Centre (streaming audio)

Philip Glass
Glass on Glass at Pytheas: The Composer's Voice/American Mavericks (American Public Media) (streaming audio)
Glass on Glass at Pytheas: "Uncut" Interview (VIDEO)
Glass on Glass at Pytheas: In Conversation - Philip Glass and Tim Page (VIDEO)
Glass on Glass at Pytheas: Discussion at Popcorn Taxi - On 'Qatsi' film trilogy (VIDEO)

Osvaldo Golijov
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: Boston Symphony Interview with Osvaldo Golijov (VIDEO)
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: Ideas Boston Conference (VIDEO)
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: On the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (VIDEO)
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: On the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival (VIDEO)
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: Tetro - Music Born from the Film (VIDEO)
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: An Interview with Golijov about His Opera "Ainadamar"/WGBH (streaming audio)
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: On Point: Osvaldo Golijov’s on His Musical “Passion”/WBUR (streaming audio)
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: Speaking of Music: Alex Ross’s 20th Century/Radio Open Source/ (streaming audio)
Golijov on Golijov at Pytheas: Meet the Composer: Osvaldo Golijov/Forum Network (VIDEO)

Ferde Grofe
Grofé on Grofé at Pytheas: Reminiscing About George Gershwin (streaming audio)

Barbara Harbach
Harbach on Harbach at Pytheas: St. Louis Public Radio/Cityscapes (streaming audio)

John Harbison
Harbison on Harbison at Pytheas: On Composing at MIT (VIDEO)
Harbison on Harbison at Pytheas: Profiles @ Indiana Public Media (streaming audio)
Harbison on Harbison at Pytheas: Backstage with Brian Bell and John Harbison/WGBH (streaming audio)
Harbison on Harbison at Pytheas: WBUR/Here and Now - Piece for John Paul II (streaming audio)    or     here
Harbison on Harbison at Pytheas: WBUR/Here and Nown - “Ulysses” (streaming audio)    or    here

Jennifer Higdon
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits) (streaming audio)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Being Creative in Philadelphia (VIDEO)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Hilary Hahn Interview with Jennifer Higdon (VIDEO)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: On Her Piano Concerto (VIDEO)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: On Her Trombone Concerto (VIDEO)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Jennifer Higdon and Sandra Dylan Discuss BandQuest Project (VIDEO)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Giving Tips to New Composers (VIDEO)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Composing Thoughts with John Clare (VIDEO)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Higdon and Rachmaninoff with Michael Christie (VIDEO)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto - Interview w/Sterling Beeaff (KBAQ) (streaming audio)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Jennifer Higdon: Down to Earth - in conversation with Frank J. Oteri (streaming audio)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Stuart Melina/Harrisburg Sym Orch - Higdon's Percussion Concerto (streaming audio)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Jennifer Higdon And Me: A Musical Friendship (Marin Alsop, WBUR) (streaming audio)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Christopher Purdy in Conversation with Jennifer Higdon/WOSU ArtsBlob (streaming audio)
Higdon on Higdon at Pytheas: Time for Three and Composer Jennifer Higdon/WRTI-Crossover (streaming audio)

Michael Horwood
Horwood on Horwood at Pytheas: The Composer's Chair/Canadian Music Centre (streaming audio)

Charles Ives
About Ives: Biography, Historical Context and Symphony No. 4 (Boston Sym Orch) (VIDEOS)

Aaron Jay Kernis
Kernis on Kernis at Pytheas: The New York Philharmonic - On "A Voice, A Messenger" (VIDEO)
Kernis on Kernis at Pytheas: The Composer's Voice (Minnesota Public Radio) (streaming audio)

Zoltán Kodály
Kodály on Kodály at Pytheas: Hungarian Televsion - On Music Education (VIDEO)

Veronika Krausas
Krausas on Krausas at Pytheas: The Composer's Chair/Canadian Music Centre (streaming audio)

Henry Kucharzyk
Kucharzyk on Kucharzyk at Pytheas: The Composer's Chair/Canadian Music Centre (streaming audio)

Gary Kulesha
Kulesha on Kulesha: NACOcast (National Arts Centre of Canada in Ontario), w/ Chris Millard (streaming audio) Part I
Kulesha on Kulesha: NACOcast (National Arts Centre of Canada in Ontario), w/ Chris Millard (streaming audio) Part II

David Lang
Lang on Lang at Pytheas: An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits) (streaming audio)

Libby Larsen
Larsen on Larsen at Pytheas: Composer Portrait @ Kalvos and Damian (streaming audio)

Bemjamin Lees
[under construction]    see  here

György Ligeti
Ligeti on Ligeti at Pytheas: Interview with John Tusa/BBC Radio 3 (streaming audio)

Witlod Lutosławski
Lutosławski on Lutosławski: Interview with Charles Amirkhanian/Other Minds (streaming audio)

Elizabeth Maconchy
Maconchy on Maconchy at Pytheas: Elizabeth Maconchy talks to Jeremy Siepmann (BBC Four) (streaming audio)

Bohuslav Martinů    see  here
[under construction]

Paul Moravec
Moravec on Moravec at Pytheas: Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) - A Composer's World Today (VIDEO)
Moravec on Moravec at Pytheas: An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits) (streaming audio)

Michael Nyman    see  here
[under construction]

Arvo Pärt
Pärt on Pärt at Pytheas: On "Für Elina" (VIDEO)

Harry Partch
Partch on Partch at Pytheas: Music Studio (Madeline Tourtelot) (VIDEO)
Partch on Partch at Pytheas: Harry Partch (BBC documentary) (VIDEO)
Partch on Partch at Pytheas: The Music of Harry Partch (San Diego KPBS-TV, 1968) (VIDEO)
Partch on Partch at Pytheas: Harry Partch and His Strange Musical Instruments (VIDEO)

Stephen Paulus
Paulus on Paulus at Pytheas: Interview with Alison Young/Minnesota Public Radio (streaming audio)

Krzysztof Penderecki
Penderecki on Penderecki at Pytheas: One-to-One with Krzysztof Penderecki/Deutsche Welle (streaming audio)
Penderecki on Penderecki at Pytheas: Documentary of Krzysztof Penderecki/Classical TV (VIDEO)

Ástor Piazzolla
Piazzolla on Piazzolla at Pytheas: Interview with Charles Amirkhanian/KPFA's Speaking Of Music (streaming audio)

Sergei Prokofiev
Prokofiev on Prokoviev at Pytheas: Playing the Piano and Talking About His Music (VIDEO)

Shulamit Ran
Ran on Ran at Pytheas: Introduction to Vocal Composition Project  (VIDEO)

Behzad Ranjbaran
Ranjbaran on Ranjbaran at Pytheas: An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits) (streaming audio)

Terry Riley
Riley on Riley at Pytheas: The Composer's Voice (Minnesota Public Radio) (streaming audio)

Steve Reich
Reich on Reich at Pytheas: The South Bank Show (VIDEO)
Reich on Reich at Pytheas: From the Mind of a Composer/American Mavericks (Amer. Public Media) (streaming audio)
Reich on Reich at Pytheas: Fresh Air Interview (Terry Gross, WHYY) -  On "It's Gonna Rain" (streaming audio)

Leonard Rosenman
[under construction]    see  here

Christopher Rouse
Rouse on Rouse at Pytheas: @ La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest (VIDEO)
Rouse on Rouse at Pytheas: Interview with Soli Deo Gloria CEO Chandler Branch (VIDEO)
Rouse on Rouse at Pytheas: On Rapture (New York Philharmonic) (VIDEO)
Rouse on Rouse at Pytheas: On Composing (New York Philharmonic) (VIDEO)
Rouse on Rouse at Pytheas: Interview with Susan Elliott, Editor of MusicalAmerica.com (VIDEO)

John Rutter
[under construction]    see  here

Peter Schickele
Schickele on Schickele at Pytheas: The Composer's Voice (Minnesota Public Radio) (streaming audio)

Heather Schmidt
[under construction]    see  here

Albert Schnelzer
[under construction]    see  here

Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg on Schoenberg at Pytheas: On Painting and Composing (streaming audio)
Schoenberg on Schoenberg at Pytheas: On His Four String Quartetes (streaming audio)
Schoenberg on Schoenberg at Pytheas: In the Spirit of Mozart (VIDEO/streaming audio)
Schoenberg on Schoenberg at Pytheas: Father of Modern Music (VIDEO)
Schoenberg on Schoenberg at Pytheas: Schoenberg's Children Speak (VIDEO)
Schoenberg on Schoenberg at Pytheas: Ronald (son) and Arnold Schoenberg (VIDEO)

Alex Shapiro
Shapiro on Shapiro at Pytheas: An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits) (streaming audio)

Judith Shatin    see  here
[under construction]

Bright Sheng
Sheng on Sheng at Pytheas: The Phoenix and the Composer - an Interview with Bright Sheng (Naxos podcast/streaming audio)
Sheng on Sheng at Pytheas: Uncommon Sense - Interview with Junia Doan (VIDEO)

Howard Shore    see  here
[under construction]

Ann Southam
Southam on Southam at Pytheas: The Composer's Chair/Canadian Music Centre (streaming audio)

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Stockhausen on Stockhausen at Pytheas: Interview (VIDEO)
Stockhausen on Stockhausen at Pytheas: Lecture to the Oxford Union, May 1972 - On "Sounds" (VIDEO)

Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky on Stravinsky at Pytheas: Igor Stravinsky: Composer/János Darvas, 2001 (VIDEO)
Stravinsky on Stravinsky at Pytheas: L'histoire du soldat Recording Session/Columbia Records (VIDEO)

Steven Stucky
Stucky on Stucky at Pytheas: The New York Philharmonic - On "Rhapsodies" (VIDEO)

Tan Dun
Tan Dun on Tan Dun at Pytheas: From the Mind of a Composer/American Mavericks (Amer. Public Media) (streaming audio)

Virgil Thomson
Thomson on Thomson at Pytheas: About Kansas City Ragtime (VIDEO)
Thomson on Thomson at Pytheas: An Interview with Charles Amirkhanian (streaming audio)
Thomson on Thomson at Pytheas: Yale School of Music/The Composer’s Voice: Virgil Thomson (streaming audio)

Frank Ticheli
Ticheli on Ticheli at Pytheas: Interview @ Artisthouse Music (VIDEO)
Ticheli on Ticheli at Pytheas: Interviews and Music/Amer. Bandmasters Association (VIDEO) - click on "Videos & Photos" picture
Ticheli on Ticheli at Pytheas: On Music Technology/iTeach (streaming audio)

Joan Tower    see  here
[under construction]

George Tsontakis ***
Tsontakis on Tsontakis at Pytheas: Preconcert Talk with Marc Neikrug (VIDEO)
Tsontakis on Tsontakis at Pytheas: Masterclass at Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico (VIDEO)
Tsontakis on Tsontakis at Pytheas: Interview for Louisville Orchestra Premiere/WUOL (streaming audio)
Tsontakis on Tsontakis at Pytheas: SPCO Tsontakis Speaks for the Record (streaming audio)
Tsontakis on Tsontakis at Pytheas: SPCO Helps Acclaimed Composer . . . /Minn. Public Radio (streaming audio)

Michel van der Aa
van der Aa on van der Aa at Pytheas: On the Opera "After Life"/Barbican Great Performers (VIDEO)

Gwyneth Walker
Walker on Walker at Pytheas: In Her Own Words (with views of her beloved Vermont) (VIDEO)
Walker on Walker at Pytheas: Interview with David Ludwig (VIDEO)
Walker on Walker at Pytheas: On "Lessons From the Sea"/Vermont Public Radio (streaming audio)

Meira Warshauer
Warshauer on Warshauer at Pytheas: Interview @ Living on Earth - On "Symphony No. 1" (streaming audio)

Iannis Xenakis
Xenakis on Xenakis at Pytheas: An Interview with Harry Halbreich (VIDEO)
Xenakis on Xenakis at Pytheas: Discussing His Work and Influences (French TV, 11/12/67 - in french) (VIDEO)

Judith Lang Zaimont
Zaimont on Zaimont at Pytheas: The Composer's Voice (Minnesota Public Radio) (streaming audio)

Hans Zimmer
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits) (streaming audio)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: The Pirate Maestro - The Music of Hans Zimmer (in 2 Parts) (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: On Ennio Morricone (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: The Man Behind the Pirates (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: On Scoring "The Pirates of the Carribean" (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: On Scoring "The Dark Knight" (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: Harry Williams & Hans Zimmer Talk About Working with Lisa Gerrard (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: About His Film Music and His Life (German TV - in German w/subtitles) (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: Hans Zimmer in Hollywood (in 6 Parts) (in German & English, no subtitles) (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: Hans Zimmer and His Music (in 2 Parts) (in German, with subtitles) (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: On Composing for Films and Animated Movies (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: Interview w/Alex Billington of FirstShowing.net (VIDEO)
Zimmer on Zimmer at Pytheas: Hans Zimmer in His Studio (VIDEO)



Also . . .
American Mavericks (San Francisco Symphony)
ASCAP Network Audio Portraits  -  click here for some of the current composer portraits featured
The Composer Next Door
The Composer's Voice (Minnesota Public Radio)
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar
Other Minds
radiOM.org

ASCAP Networks Audio Portraits  -  Featured Composers (as of 12/10/08)
-    Virko Baley
-    Derek Bermel
-    Martin Bresnick
-    Eric Chasalow
-    Shawn Clement
-    Mason Daring
-    John Debney
-    Avner Dorman
-    James Emery
-    Daron Hagen & Paul Muldoon
-    Christopher Theofanidis
-    Lee Johnson
-    Jens Joneleit
-    Marc Mellits
-    Nico Muhly
-    Maria Schneider
-    Barry Schader
-    Paul Schwartz
-    Alan Silverstri
-    Alvin Singleton
-    Laurie Spiegel
-    Augusta Read Thomas
-    Scott Wheeler
-    Evan Ziporyn