The Lunchbox Interview: Richard Hornsby on Atlantica’s 3rd Stream Classical Goes Jazzy [FULL EPISODE]

On the one hand: classical music.

On the other hand: jazz.

That’s how I typically think of those genres: related by being part of the body of music, but pretty much at extreme ends from each other.

But musicians don’t think that way. They combine, sample, cross-over and intermingle to produce new works all the time.

My guest today is Richard Hornsby, UNB’s Director of Music and member of the Atlantica quintet. He joins me to talk about Atlantica’s upcoming performance: “3rd Stream Classical Composers Go Jazzy”. We talk about the interesting crossovers that were created in the 50s between these two genres, the new work especially commissioned to combine those genres and poetry from Alden Nowlan, and more about music than I can possible put here..

Music today:

One can be forgiven, maybe, for comments about the weather today. Still, it seems terribly appropriate to play The Water Goes Both Ways by Run With The Kittens, from the album Casio Glue Bomb.
A classic piece of music reinterpreted by Joel Plaskett gives way to my interview: Hard Time, off his most recent album The Park Avenue Sobriety Test.
And a little jazz to end off the hour: Jason Roseblatt with the title track from his album, Wiseman’s Rag.