Guest host: Melissa Ousley
Melissa Ousley brings her expansive knowledge of music to the program this week, and her sensitive ear and attention to the details for all of her selections comes through. John Cage's "In a Landscape" serves as an example of how Cage perhaps had a greater impact on music of the 20th century than any other composer, through his emphasis on silence, space, and Eastern philosophies. John Adams' "Hallelujah Junction" for two pianos takes the contrapuntal minimalism of the 1970s to dizzying new heights, and Jesse Montgomery's "Coincident Dances" depicts what the composer calls the "profoundly multicultural experience" of living in New York City.
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