New Classical Tracks (Extended Interview) - Awadagin Pratt

New Classical Tracks - Awadagin Pratt

Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wis. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and also produces New Classical Tracks, a weekly podcast critiquing a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays and 5:15 p.m. Fridays.


Julie Amacher

On this week’s episode of New Classical Tracks, pianist Awadagin Pratt, string ensemble A Far Cry and vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth collaborate in ‘Stillpoint,’ an album featuring six newly commissioned works inspired by five lines from a poem by T.S. Eliot. Find out more!


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Pianist Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth collaborate in 'Stillpoint'

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Jeff Lunden

When the composer/lyricist died in 2021 at age 91, he left behind a partly finished show called Here We Are. But his collaborators say Sondheim loved a puzzle — and he left them all the pieces.


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The task? Finish Stephen Sondheim's last musical. No pressure.

Olivia Hampton

On Philanthropy, the artist's 14th studio album, Volker Bertelmann, also known as Hauschka, returns to his signature prepared piano sound in music he hopes will strengthen connections between people.


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Hauschka's prepared piano is a layered canvas of sounds in new album

Extra Eclectic - Oct. 18, 2023

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

On the latest episode of ‘Extra Eclectic,’ host Steve Seel plays music in honor of our migrating avian friends — from Norman Dello Joio's ‘Exaltation of Larks’ to Jennifer Bellor's ‘Skylark Lullaby.’ He also pays tribute to jazz iconoclast Carla Bley, who died Tuesday at 87. Listen now!


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Taking flight

New Classical Tracks (Extended Interview) - October 18, 2023

New Classical Tracks - Plinio Fernandes

On this week’s episode of New Classical Tracks, Brazilian guitarist Plinio Fernandes combines Bach and Brazilian music with help from composer Sergio Assad on his new album, ‘Bacheando.’ Find out more!


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Guitarist Plinio Fernandes combines Bach and Brazilian music on 'Bacheando'

Anastasia Tsioulcas

A new live stage show features actor John Malkovich transformed into some of the meanest music critics ever — in real reviews skewering the work of great composers like Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin.


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Even Beethoven got bad reviews, as John Malkovich points out in 'The Music Critic'

Polish countertenor and breakdancer Jakub Józef Orliński talks about his new album with Il Pomo d'Oro orchestra.


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From opera to breakdancing and back again: Jakub Józef Orliński fuses two worlds

Saturday Cinema - Oct. 14, 2023

Lynne has been at this radio thing since 1984 when she fell into an historic job at KFAC AM and FM, the commercial classical station in Los Angeles.  She was the first woman staff announcer in the station's history, and it was such big news back then, it made the LA newspapers and national radio publications.  She is thrilled women in radio is no longer newsworthy.


Lynne Warfel

On the latest episode of ‘Saturday Cinema,’ Lynne Warfel celebrates great directors of the past and present, including music from films by Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Federico Fellini, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion, Ava DuVernay and Greta Gerwig. Listen now to two full hours of your favorite film music! 


Great directors, Part 1

Where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music, with host Vernon Neal.

Rhapsody in Black - Rachel Barton Pine

Vernon Neal is the host of the podcast ‘Rhapsody in Black,’ where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music.


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Vernon Neal

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine blurs the boundaries of what you might think a classical musician is and does. Not only has she created a pathway for metal fans to explore classical music, but she’s a genuine ally for Black artists and the music they create. Find out more in the 'Rhapsody in Black' podcast.


Rachel Barton Pine is an ally for Black voices and music

Extra Eclectic - Oct. 11, 2023

Fall is slowly creeping in, and host Steve Seel brings us some modern classical works in an autumnal mode on the latest episode of ‘Extra Eclectic.’

 


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