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RADIO: Going beyond headlines and Haydn...
...innovative news programs like Morning Edition and All Things Considered, with plenty of commercial-free classical music in between. But no longer. Washington-based NPR, which is celebrating its 20th year, is adding more sounds of fun -- and even a little fluff -- to its successful duet of headlines and Haydn. For example, the private, not-for- profit network last month introduced Heat, a late-night mix of news, music and guests, to attract younger listeners, already a growing part of the network's audience. "NPR is not a preserve for the humor impaired," says Heat senior producer Steve Rathe...
...popular and classical forms, it brings life to both genres," says Bolcom, 51. "By making them touch, something fresh, new and organic grows. I like the traditional and the newest culture coexisting in the same piece. The classical masters had that possibility -- Haydn is full of pop tunes -- and I want...
Guess again. The blond (Joan Jeanrenaud) is a cellist by craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi...
This afternoon renowned British conductor, Christopher Hogwood, will lead an informal colloquium for undergraduate and graduate students in the Music Building. Hogwood is one of the founders of the Academy of Ancient Music and has made several harpsichord recordings. Currently he works with the Handel and Haydn Society, but in the past, Hogwood has recorded with such American groups as the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. His seminar, which is sponsored by the Office for the Arts and the Music Department, will focus on the problems and joys inherent in conducting classical symphonies...