Meet the Composer

Q2 Music, WQXR

Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds of the composers making some of the most innovative and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

42 - Paul Simon’s Curious Mind

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Wed, 26 Aug 2015

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Meet the Composer

Episodes

Paul Simon’s Curious Mind

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's 'Clouds Forming Over Mount Baker'

The Producer

Bryce Dessner's 'Wires,' Performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain

New Music Fight Club

Henry Threadgill’s Zooid, Live at the Village Vanguard

Henry Threadgill: Dirt, and More Dirt

Bonus Track: John Adams' 'Coast,' Unplugged

Splitting Adams: John Adams' Chamber Symphonies

Bonus Track: Pauline Oliveros' 'Tuning Meditation'

The Performer: Part Two, Pauline

Bonus Track: JACK Quartet Performs Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 9

The Performer: Part One

From the Vaults, Part Five: Meet the Composer With Leonard Bernstein

From the Vaults, Part Four: Meet the Composer With Libby Larsen

From the Vaults, Part Three: Meet the Composer With Otto Luening

From the Vaults, Part Two: Meet the Composer With John Cage

From the Vaults, Part One: Meet the Composer With Tim Page

Kickstart Season Three of Meet the Composer

Download: 'Viola Concerto: Part II' by Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly: Community Theater

Download: Anna Thorvaldsdottir's 'Scape' Performed by Pianist Cory Smythe

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Composing Is Second Nature

Download: The Lost Movement of Ingram Marshall's String Quartet, "Voces Resonae"

Ingram Marshall: A Connecticut Hippie In California

Download: LPR Live Preview and 'Memory Pieces' by David Lang

Download: Kaija Saariaho's 'Light and Matter' from the Library of Congress

Kaija Saariaho: Ears Open

Bonus Track: 'Stringsongs' by Meredith Monk

Meredith Monk: Creation as Spiritual Practice

Announcing Season Two of Meet the Composer

Bonus Track: 'Intercepting a Shivery Light' by Marcos Balter

Marcos Balter: Failure Is an Option

Bonus Track: 'Its Motion Keeps' by Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully

Bonus Track: Excerpts from The Hunger by Donnacha Dennehy

Donnacha Dennehy: Composing With Frequency

Andrew Norman: Better Living Through Architecture

Bonus Track: The Wind in High Places by John Luther Adams

Bonus Track: Meet the Composer Launch Party and Concert

John Luther Adams: Bad Decisions and Finding Home

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