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

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


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Steve Seel is the host of YourClassical’s weekly SymphonyCast and the trailblazing music show Extra Eclectic. He possesses a broad knowledge of many musical genres, having hosted radio programs ranging from classical to jazz and even avant-garde music at radio stations around the country. Steve began his love affair with public radio at 24 working whatever shifts he could at his hometown station of WUSF-FM in Tampa, Florida, and from there worked his way to snowy Buffalo, New York, and its renowned classical station WNED-FM, where he hosted middays and the weekly experimental-music show Present Tense.  In 2005, Steve became one of the founding voices on Minnesota Public Radio's eclectic station, the Current. While there, he hosted afternoons and mornings, and conducted in-depth interviews with pop music luminaries ranging from Brian Eno to David Byrne to Tori Amos. Steve is a basement composer obsessed with all things both minimalist and slow, and might actually be incapable of writing anything that exceeds 75 beats-per-minute.


Steve Seel

Theremin virtuoso Carolina Eyck plays Kalevi Aho’s Theremin Concerto at the BBC Proms on the latest episode of Extra Eclectic, hosted by Steve Seel.


Extra Eclectic

Christian Huller

Carolina Eyck takes the theremin into the future

Composer Paola Prestini’s ‘G-Force’ uses gravity as a metaphor for the weightiness of “a life well lived.” We hear her work, as well as two exclusive live recordings from the BBC Proms, on this week’s Extra Eclectic, with host Steve Seel.


Caroline Tompkins

Paola Prestini finds her center of gravity

We begin our sampling of performances from the 2022 BBC Proms.


MPR photo/Rex Levang

The Proms gets eclectic

Jennifer Higdon wrote her Violin Concerto for violinist Hilary Hahn.


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Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto

Composer Timo Andres is inspired by music from Brahms to Radiohead.


Timo Andres: in the moment

Michael Wilson

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope provide this week’s inspiration. 


Music for star gazing

Courtesy of NASA

Brian Eno turns Pachelbel’s ‘Canon’ into conceptual art on this week’s episode of Extra Eclectic, with host Steve Seel.


Brian Eno's "Deconstructed" Pachelbel

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Brian Eno deconstructs Pachelbel's 'Canon'

How about some chilly sounds on a summer night? It’s winter in the southern hemisphere, after all.


It's always winter somewhere

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Composers from Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, and Syria.


The Middle East and more

Poetry and prose provide the inspiration for the music in this week’s Extra Eclectic, with host Steve Seel.
