9/1 Composer Alive: Poland -- Access Contemporary Music has commissioned the Warsaw-based composer Agnieszka Stulgi?ska for their annual Composer Alive project, which tasks international composers to write music inspired by their homeland. The piece, Dance With my Breath, is innovatively performed in three installments over the span of 90 days. We’ll dive into Agnieszka’s thought process, play
each installment, and sit alongside the composer as she hears the world premiere of the completed work for the first time.
9/8 Foster the Music: Darmstadt – One of the world’s most famous new music festival has been held in Darmstadt since 1946. We’ll trace the festival from its beginnings through modern times and feature some of the seminal works that were premiered there.
9/15 Composer Collectives -- The twentieth century saw an interesting movement as composers banded together in collectives to help promote each other’s work. The movement has only gotten stronger in the twenty-first century with the rise of entrepreneurship in classical music. We’ll feature the music of several composer collectives and take a close look at their inner workings.
9/22 Green Umbrella Series -- During the LA Philharmonic’s 2018/19 season, they are commissioning 50 new works from artists including Louis Andriessen, Unsuk Chin, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich, just to name a few. Composer and curator of the first of the LA Phil’s new music series, entitled Green Umbrella, Andrew Norman talks about the Southern Californian composers that he’s presenting. This SoCal repertoire includes works by Ethan Braun, Tina Tallon, and Carolyn Chen.
9/29 Flora & Fauna -- The natural world is a never-ending source of fascination and inspiration for composers. From the datura plant in southern China to a rare bird in the wilds of Australia to strange animals that exist only in the composer’s imagination, we’re featuring music inspired by the boundless creativity of nature.
