My guests today are Nadia Francavilla and Norm Adams, two of the organizers and performers of the upcoming annual edition of the Contemporary Music Festival. The theme for 2024 for is “Echoes”, and they reflect on what the pieces chosen challenge them to do, how they highlight the composers working today, and the thrill of live performance.
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Recapping Local Fredericton News from November 4th – 8th, 2024
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Mark Kleyn (viola), Emily Kennedy (cello/vocals) and Charles Harding (synthesizer/percussion), also known as Pallmer, took home some hardware at the 2024 Music New Brunswick Awards on October 24th. The trio won Song of the Year for the title track of their album Swimming, which was also nominated for Recording of the Year, a track Kennedy
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My guest today was Richard Hornsby. He is (among many things) the Director of Music at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival.
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My guest today is Noël Wan, whose passion and experience with the harp extends back to her childhood, and remains as vibrant as ever.
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Saxophonist-composer-bandleader Joel Miller stopped by to talk about his upcoming show, Epic Fantasy. He’s seeking to innovate, by merging elements of classical and jazz composition, following a lifelong fascination with music.
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Track Listing: 1.) Pallmer – Knuckles 2.) Billie Eilish – When The Party’s Over 3.) Louise Burns – Everything You Got 4.) Lydia Ainsworth – Diamonds Cutting Diamonds 5.) Riit – quamajuapik 6.) Clairo – Softly 7.) Tallies – Mother 8.) Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade – One More Cup Of Coffee 9.) LAPS
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My guest today is Nadia Francavilla, to talk about the upcoming performance of the works of Luciano Berio called “A Sequence of Sequences.”
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My guest today is Nadia Francavilla, Musician-in-Residence at UNB and performer of the upcoming concert Athèmes 2.
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My guest today is Bjorn Runefors, Director of the UNB Concert Band and UNB Chorale. The Fall Concert is coming up on November 6 at Memorial Hall.
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My guest today is Greg Harrison, co-founder of the FUZE music festival. The festival comes up on August 12 and 13th as part of the NB Summer Music Festival.
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My guest today is Sarah Beth Shiplett from the UNB Music Centre. We talked about two upcoming Music on the Hill performances: Chromoduo and La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura. Music by The Regal Beagle Band, Whitney Rose and Rattlesnake Choir.
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My guest today is Richard Horsby, UNB’s Director of Music and member of Atlantica, which is putting on a show called “3rd Stream Classical Composers Go Jazzy”. Music today by Run With The Kittens, Joel Plaskett and Jason Rosenblatt.
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Art moves us.. Sarah Beth Shiplett informs us about musical performances, Andre Sampson tells us about 20-minute art.
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The NB Summer Music Festival is an opportunity to discover and celebrate classical music (and modern classical!) in a classic environment. Cedric Noel has been working with the NBSMF all summer to set up this festival, and he dropped by to give us details about the festival and about the experience of classic music. Podcast:
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Most think of classical music as stuck in the past, but several artists want to show you just how contemporary it is. I spoke with Greg and Alex, two of the performers for the alternative classical music festival-within-a-festival, FUZE. FUZE is contained within the umbrella of the NB Summer Music Festival. We talked composition and
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