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Where classical music is always arriving, with host Steve Seel. Listen live at 10 p.m. central every Wednesday on YourClassical Radio.

Extra Eclectic - Steve Tibbets Interview

Steve Tibbetts' unclassifiable music knows no boundaries

Steve Tibbetts' unclassifiable music knows no boundaries

In this half-hour interview, Extra Eclectic host Steve Seel sits down with Minnesota guitarist and composer Steve Tibbetts, who doesn't make “classical music” by any stretch of the imagination — nor is it jazz or rock. Seel talks with him on the occasion of the release of ‘Hellbound Train,’ a new two-disc showcase of what Tibbetts describes as his style of ‘post-modern neo-primitivism.’

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Missy Mazzoli's opera 'Proving Up' is a haunting commentary on the American dream
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Iranian-Kurdish composer Kayhan Kalhor is a kamancheh maestro

Iranian-Kurdish composer Kayhan Kalhor is a kamancheh maestro

Iranian-Kurdish composer Kayhan Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh, a traditional Iranian bowed string instrument. Listen to his music and more on this week's episode of Extra Eclectic, with host Steve Seel.

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Molly Joyce finds a new way to compose music

Molly Joyce finds a new way to compose music

Composer and performer Molly Joyce’s music is primarily concerned with disability as a creative source, stemming from an auto accident that deformed her left hand. Listen to her music and more on this week's episode of Extra Eclectic, with guest host Ward Jacobson.

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Chalk has no restraints in Sofia Gubaidulina's ‘Fairytale Poem’

Chalk has no restraints in Sofia Gubaidulina's ‘Fairytale Poem’

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina's ‘Fairytale Poem’ can be seen as an allegory for life under an oppressive regime and how a child's piece of chalk can be a metaphor for imagination unchained from such constraints. Listen with host Steve Seel as he features it on this week’s episode of Extra Eclectic.

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Anna Thorvaldsdottir portrays the feeling of freedom in 'Aeriality'

Anna Thorvaldsdottir portrays the feeling of freedom in 'Aeriality'

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's ‘Aeriality’ seems to express both stasis and motion at the same time. The Washington Post called it "a big, spinning planet of a work that contains multitudes." Listen with host Steve Seel as he features it on this week's show.

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American composer Joan Tower navigates troubled waters in ‘Still/Rapids’
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Latvian composer Vasks' 'Vox Amoris' is all about love

Latvian composer Vasks' 'Vox Amoris' is all about love

Latvian composer Peteris Vasks says his work Vox Amoris (Voice of Love) is "about the greatest power in the whole world — love.” Host Steve Seel features that work on this week's episode of Extra Eclectic, as well as music by Missy Mazzoli, Anna Clyne and Ramon Humet.

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Technology continues to change music
Pekka Kuusisto in concert

Pekka Kuusisto in concert

Violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto is heard in two live recordings this week.

About Extra Eclectic

Where classical music is always arriving, with host Steve Seel. Listen live at 10 p.m. central every Wednesday on YourClassical Radio.