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SoundNotion 117: It All Comes Back to Tacos
This week we’re joined by composer, interdisciplinary collaborator and taco enthusiast Steven Snowden. He’s doing more cool stuff than we could talk about in an hour (so we took a bit longer). PLUS-Seattle gets a labor deal and Boston has a new conductor. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Steven Snowden.
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SoundNotion 116: Uneducated Plebs
We’re joined by music critic Vivien Schweitzer to discuss trends in music criticism and how someone always thinks you’re an idiot. PLUS: Minnesota cancels season, Baltimore’s new duds, New Music USA’s new grant system and we say goodbye to Steve Martland. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Vivien Schweitzer.
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SoundNotion 115: Cheeseburger ma non troppo
This week on SoundNotion, we’re joined by the Alec Baldwin of SoundNotion and the strongest beard in new music Rob Deemer. He’s for the occasional cheeseburger when planning a new music meal. We suss the difference between entertainment and pandering. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald and Rob Deemer.
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SoundNotion 114: Don't Forget the Thing
Back from the SEAMUS conference, composer Ben Fuhrman fills us in on all the goodies including plenty of new toys like eMotion! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo and Ben Fuhrman.
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SoundNotion 113: Men Who Knit
This week the panel is joined by composer and MATA Festival artistic director Yotam Haber. We cover the finer points of score prep, the subtle craft of festival application and how to parse 600 scores. PLUS! Caroline Shaw and Room Full of Teeth DAMMIT! This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Yotam Haber.
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SoundNotion 112: Out There
This week the panel is joined by composer, speaker, essayist, activist and naturalist photo-blogger Alex Shapiro from remote San Juan Island where she stays connected without getting stuck on the 405. Oh, and we fix all the technology and gender stuff. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Sarah Summar and Alex Shapiro.
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SoundNotion 111: We Have the Technology!!!
This week on SoundNotion, the panel is joined by long time #FoTS Meerenai Shim with her newest CD, The Art of Noise. Meerenai shares tales from the Chiptune scene, questing for obsolete operating systems, her flute/Game Boy and we discuss the week’s news. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Meerenai Shim.
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SoundNotion 110: It’s All Screaming
This week on SoundNotion, trouble in San Francisco (#AlfidiSucks), altruism via Google Hangout, Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 3, Alex Shapiro stays connected while getting away, Steinway’s showroom sold to a condo developer PLUS-Metal’s top ten voices. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 109: Nicer than Conan
This week on SoundNotion, we’re joined by composer Sean Shepard. We discuss his work Blur for ensemble intercontemporain, the April 20th world premiere of his new work Tuolumne with the Cleveland Orchestra PLUS - the value of Nico Muhly’s Twitter feed. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Sean Shepherd.
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SoundNotion 108: Value Proposition
This week we’ve got both kinds of value, the touchy feely kind, and the money kind. San Francisco is on strike, Reznor and Radiohead on giving it away, The Jerusalem Quartet, PLUS - Alexandra Gardner, “...no one who wasn't there needs to know it was bad.” This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 107: Ten Percent Off
This week on SoundNotion, San Francisco approves a strike, union complications foil a sweet Sarah Kirkland Snider-yMusic-Shara Worden jam, Reich Rewrites Radiohead and we remember Van Cliburn and Peter Gelb un-Gelbs a previous Gelb that he pulled. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 106: Minimalist-adjacent
This week on SoundNotion, R. Andrew Lee shares Dennis Johnson’s November along with a discussion of marathon minimalism, notational news from Steinberg, new and novel alternative notation tools, and digital distribution’s boost to the music industry! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and R. Andrew Lee.
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SoundNotion 105: Machover in the Barn
This week on SoundNotion, the panel is joined by composer, inventor, robot maker and educator Tod Machover with his new project, A Toronto Symphony, his new symphonic work and with an innovative approach to community outreach. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Tod Machover.
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SoundNotion 104: Dodecaphonic Babies
This week on SoundNotion, the panel is joined by composer, drummer and death metal aficionado David T. Little. We discuss his new opera Soldier Songs, a new project about JFK, the ensemble Newspeak, the nature of ‘truth’ vs ‘facts,’ and the week’s news. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and David T. Little.
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SoundNotion 103: Dog and Pony Show
On SoundNotion 103, Elliott Carter premiered in Seattle, the NEA’s new approach to assessment, The Grammy’s, ASCAP’s new licensing system for web and mobile apps, Yo-Yo Ma wins 2013 Vilcek Award and $249.11 gets you The Rite of Spring in Igor’s own hand. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 102: Syncopatative™
This week on SoundNotion the panel is joined by Madera Wind Quintet clarinetist Rachel Yoder and composer Sarah Summar to discuss Madera’s new album five at play, Carnegie Hall’s new season, and syncopatativeness of modern music. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Rachel Yoder and Sarah Summar.
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SoundNotion 101: All That Teen Wolf Money
This week on SoundNotion, the panel is joined by composer, educator and sound painter Bill Ryan with his new album, stories of how to build a successful new music ensemble, the week’s news and the secret to making it big on MTV. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton and Bill Ryan
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SoundNotion 100: Cage Match
This week on SoundNotion we have composer, writer and highly emotional human being Daniel Asia (yes, that Daniel Asia). We discuss his Huffington Post piece on John Cage, masterpieces, geniuses and what makes music “useful.” This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Tim Rosenberg and Daniel Asia.
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SoundNotion 99: An Audio Accident
This week we plug our “Cage-Baiting” episode Jan. 20th with Daniel Asia, early samples from Tod Machover’s A Toronto Symphony, Opra de Montral streams a full day of work, Simon Rattle a free agent after 2018 and Eric Whitacre has beautiful hair (duh). This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 98: That’s So Meta
We’re back with our first episode of 2013 (and this time we mean business). We discuss cruel discrimination against classical music in the US and the UK, how things went for orchestras, financial stability for Steinway and how much Spotify metadata sucks. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.
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Best of SoundNotion 2012
We're taking a couple of weeks off to celebrate the holidays, so we made you a little something to enjoy while we're gone. Here is a short compilation of a few of our favorite moments from this year's shows. See you in 2013!
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SoundNotion 97: Rubber Bands on Everything
This week on SoundNotion the panel is joined by composer/performer Andy Akiho to talk about his commission for the New York Philharmonic series CONTACT, a recycled orchestra, the passing of two music greats and why rubber bands sound good on everything. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Andy Akiho.
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SoundNotion 96: Compendium or Something
This week on SoundNotion, the panel considers Grammy nominations, teaching choir online, changes to Spotify, the travails of meaningful community engagement, the danger of Leistungsschutzrecht and the passing of two music greats. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 95: Two r’s, No i
This week on SoundNotion, we’re joined by arts policy and communications guru Margy Waller of the Topos Partnership. PLUS-The Detroit Symphony rocks to Queen, Michel van der Aa wins the Grawemeyer and Sergei Tcherepnin wires you. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Margy Waller.
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SoundNotion 94: Rocco's Modern Life
This week on SoundNotion, we discuss the NEA’s Rocco Landesman’s report and departure, The Times’ classical hardship, orchestra hall sanctioned tweeting, Laurie Spiegel’s otherworldly music, the best street music gig, and our composerly holiday wishlist. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 93: 2.6 Million + 1 People
On SoundNotion, Tod Machover collaborates with 2.6 million, the RSC to reform copyright for the public good, (no wait) the RSC wimps out over copyright reform, the Internet Radio Fairness Act draws opinions and Anthony Tommasini wants your special moments. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 92: Safe Word
This week on SoundNotion the panel is joined by performer/composer/mutant crime fighter Robert Paterson. We discuss his new release of six mallet marimba music, reading music from “tablets”, 25 years of Naxos and the long career of Elliott Carter. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Robert Paterson.
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SoundNotion 91: Actual News
This week on SoundNotion the effects of hurricane Sandy on New Amsterdam records and the arts community in New York, the Pittsburgh Symphony plays the King of Pop (tough clarinet excerpt!), PLUS an unfair and out of balance look at art in politics. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 90: Patrick Makes it Awkward
This week on SoundNotion, orchestra business consultant Drew McManus discusses current trends, conflicts and lockouts-PLUS-A political poll (scary for Halloween), Billboard Hot 100 gets Gangnamstyled and Rob Deemer likes lists (also scary for Halloween). This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton and Drew McManus.
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SoundNotion 89: A Show with Cajnes
Nate, Patrick, and Sam have the week off, but Dave is joined by Tim Rosenberg and Ben Fuhrman to discuss Ben’s music for performers with interactive computer, Arabic-jazz fusion, performers who compose, and the future of American orchestras (SOLVED!). This week's panel: David MacDonald, Timothy Rosenberg and Ben Fuhrman.
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SoundNotion 87: Yes, We Can
This Week on SoundNotion composer/writer/guitar sample maker Alexandra Gardner joins the panel to discuss her work for guitar and electronics, working with prog rock drummer Alan White of Yes and the week’s news. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Alexandra Gardner.
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SoundNotion 86: Vicky Chow, Harlequin
This week on SoundNotion, composer, programmer, circuit bender Tristan Perich joins the panel. We discuss his 1-Bit Symphony, his new work for Mariel Roberts and how to solve undergraduate education. PLUS-Chicago and Atlanta orchestras are back to work! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Tristan Perich.
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SoundNotion 85: Vicky Chow, Harlequin
Chicago Symphony musicians strike! Also, Universal takes over EMI, J.W. Pepper offers a unique service for composers and pianist Vicky Chow tells us about her career and Bang on a Can All-Stars. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Vicky Chow.
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SoundNotion 84: The Hardest Working Woman in Show...
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon joins the panel to discuss “Concerto 4-3”, the Baltimore Symphony’s redress, the Milwaukee Symphony’s balanced budget, Amanda Palmer paying musicians with beer and hugs and the legacy of William Duckworth. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Jennifer Higdon.
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SoundNotion 83: Martial Artist/Saxophonist
This week Philip Bradbury brings his interactive, graphic novel, music project with artist Dave Gardiner featuring a martial artist/jazz saxophonist. Also Kozinn shafted, Cage is 100, the artist formerly know as Han Bin, and Gene Roddenberry is a jerk. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo and Philip Bradbury.
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SoundNotion 82: Rachel Makes Us Look Bad
On this week’s SoundNotion #FoTS Rachel Yoder makes us feel lazy taking time off from being a performer, communications director and writer to join the panel. We talk impossible music, sexist pigs, Art of Fugue (FROM MEMORY!) and Stockhausen’s giant ego. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Rachel Yoder.
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SoundNotion 81: Doctor’s Office Music
This week we talk about hope for Ives house, keeping tickets cheap at The Met and access to USA Projects for students, classical radio in Philly (that’s not afraid to get crunchy), piano graveyards and making the most out of the Pussy Riot kerfuffle. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 80: Everyone Knows Someone
WE’RE BACK! After missing two weeks, the panel is ready to snark. This week we say yes to the dress, the Insane Clown Posse gets litigious, Charles Ives house in jeopardy, Beck gets something on paper, Rob Deemer has a list and Pussy Riot gets two years. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 79: Loud Noises!
This week on SoundNotion, the panel is joined by singer, educator and self professed Luddite Paul Sperry. We discuss the foible of atonal vocal works, amplification, indeterminacy with Bruno Maderna, tattoo regret, and the week’s news. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Paul Sperry.
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SoundNotion 78: Story Time
This week on SoundNotion, Melissa Snoza and Crystal Hall of Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble join the panel. We talk artist-educators, narrative performances, a half million bucks for chamber groups and the greatest Def Leppard cover band ever. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Crystal Hall, and Melissa Snoza
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SoundNotion 77: Smutty Paperback
This week on SoundNotion the panel discusses the bump and grind of Thomas Tallis (50 shades of cash), Glass on the street in Time Square, band camp for grown-ups and the Alarm Will Sound/social media/John Cage three headed love child. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, and David MacDonald
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SoundNotion 76: Good Press, Bad Press
This week on SoundNotion, orchestra consultant, tech savvy arts entrepreneur and #FoTS Drew McManus joins the panel with GOOD NEWS IN THE ORCHESTRA BUSINESS, classical music’s romance with Twitter, Alec Baldwin’s $1,000,000 donation and much more.
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SoundNotion 75: You Can’t Rent This
Composer/educator Augusta Read Thomas joins the panel to discuss her upcoming premieres, the composer’s took box, Schoenberg’s legacy, the St. Louis Symphony, and her obsession with metal! This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, David MacDonald, and Augusta Read Thomas.
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SoundNotion 74: Whatever Happens, Happens
This week, pianist Jeremy Denk joins the panel to give us some insight into Ligeti’s piano tudes, we dissect Emily White’s blog post on NPR’s All Songs Considered, we discuss the rules in the new media-old media war, and much more! This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, Tim Rosenberg, David MacDonald, and Jeremy Denk.
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SoundNotion 73: Hypothetical Easter Egg
ETHEL violist Ralph Farris joins the panel to discuss the group’s most recent album HEAVY. Plus - Improvising against the Canon fire, Wagner’s Tel Aviv gig gets cancelled, the Pittsburgh Symphony’s YouTube concerto competition - EPIC FAIL and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Ralph Farris.
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SoundNotion 72: Not a Real Instrument?
This week on SoundNotion the panel is joined by composer-educator-business mogul-cultural ambassador Anthony De Ritis. He brings his concerto for DJ and orchestra and some opinions on the week’s news. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald and Anthony Paul De Ritis.
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SoundNotion 71: Send in the Hate Mail
This week on SoundNotion we rock out to Sondheim, Anthony de Mare, and Ethan Iverson with Skype on audio effects. ALSO - The DSO is forgiven, Wagner is programed in Israel, John Adams and Milo Poniewozik get big premieres and we say goodbye to Doc Watson. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton and Anthony de Mare.
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SoundNotion 70: Irregular Panelists
Composer, songwriter, performer Corey Dargel joins the panel. He will join classical and pop, bringing balance to the force. Also, Peter Gelb “pulls a Gelb”, another death in disco, premiere some Glass at Time Square and an indeterminate NewMusicBox blog. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton and Corey Dargel.
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SoundNotion 69: Last Dance
This week, the panel discusses Kid Rock and the DSO, the idea of open notation, opera budgets, a couple recent deaths, fraudulent Strads, and much more! This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 68: Contemporaneous Speaking
On SN 68, David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly of Contemporaneous join the panel to talk opera on the silver screen, composer tantrums about opera, orchestral flash mobs, loud and proud Tchaikovsky by Hahn-Bin and the passing of beloved author Maurice Sendak. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly.
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SoundNotion 67: The Mozart Remix
Jeff Loeffert and Jonathan Nichol of the h2 Quartet join the panel to discuss their new album Groove Machine and discuss Apple’s classical music offerings, a retracted blog post on WQXR’s website, Joshua Bell on Dancing with the Stars, and more! This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Jeff Loeffert, and Jonathan Nichol.
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SoundNotion 66: No Repeats
This week Douglas Boyce of counter)induction joins the panel. We take on music myths, creative programing, conflict in performance, Make Music, Occupy Guitarmy (yes Guitarmy), settlement in Louisville? NEWS FLASH: MUSIC + CHILDREN = EMPATHY. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Ty Forquer and Douglas Boyce.
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SoundNotion 65: Revolutions
Rob Deemer and Charith Premawardhana join the panel to discuss anthologizing composers, the Tokyo String Quartet’s official goodbye, the music initiative Classical Revolution, Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize win, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, Rob Deemer and Charith Premawardhana.
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SoundNotion 64: Music of the Flyover States
This week with guest composer Ricardo Lorenz-Labor issues with orchestraZZZZZZZZzzzzz, adding Secretary of Culture to 25th Amendment, arena opera, 8 new(York) pieces from Ethel PLUS Sondheim and SoundCloud. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Ricardo Lorenz.
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SoundNotion 63: Professors Really ARE Cool
This week the panel is joined by FoTS Meerenai Shim to discuss her upcoming premieres, the NEA/Kickstarter deathmatch, entrepreneurial musicians, orchestral shenanigans in Louisville, retro-electronica and the passing of the “King of Loud” Jim Marshall. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Meerenai Shim.
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SoundNotion 62: Robot Genius Podcasters
The panel takes on arts funding in Europe, checks out the new Spotify app “Classify”, discusses David Smooke’s thoughts on the Genius Myth, and more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, and Timothy Rosenberg.
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SoundNotion 61: The Talking Part of an Opera
This week #FoTS Daniel Felsenfeld joins the panel to parse composition contests, blogging contests, a new kind of concert hall and the concert works of Sir Anthony Hopkins (good with fava beans and a nice Chianti). This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Daniel Felsenfeld.
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SoundNotion 60: I Dare You Not to Cry
This week FoTS Matt Schoendorff joins the panel to discuss sound masses, the most interesting Polish man in the world, big female lists, quiting trombones, Greenwood, helicopters in opera and not crying over spilled cello. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Matt Schoendorff.
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SoundNotion 59: Sqwonkification
Composer James Holt joins the panel to discuss jerks, doppelgangers, pie charts, composer as critic, poetry as analysis, sqwonkification, Osvaldo Golijov and more. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and James Holt.
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SoundNotion 58: Old York vs. New York
London based performer and composer Kerry Andrew joins the panel to discuss the weeks music news and how to get more women composing. We find the answer painfully obvious. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton, and Kerry Andrew.
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SoundNotion 57: Grammys in the Cupboard
eighth blackbird’s Lisa Kaplan joins the panel to discuss the group’s recent Grammy win, the Golijov-Bergeman “scandal”, out-of-this-world Kickstarter patronage, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, and Lisa Kaplan.
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SoundNotion 56: You Say Potato, I Say Terrifying
Judd Greenstein joins the panel to talk about the Ecstatic Music Festival, the mission of New Amsterdam Records, taking instruments on airplanes, tuba theft, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, and Judd Greenstein.
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SoundNotion 55: Sour Grapes
This week on SoundNotion De Profundis goes low, the Sphinx Organization celebrates 15 years, Justin Davidson makes the longest mix tape, the Grammys take heat for disenfrancategorizesing™ musicians, the Library of Congress and “instrumental competition.” This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 54: Glasspeggios™
This week the panel is joined by #FoTS Ty Forquer. We discuss the Grammys (GO YORK BOWEN!), Oliveros’ Cage Award, the classical cred of Radiohead vs Reich, the salvation of classical music (ASIANS!) and Sam gets buyers remorse over Glass Symphony No. 9. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, and Ty Forquer.
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SoundNotion 53: Quasi-Objectivity
This week on SoundNotion the Greenwood/Penderecki duo drop some new sounds, Alex Ross gets his own festival, the panels parses some Smooke Schtick, Opera Carolina is giving it away for free and Kyle Gann considers “quasi-objectivity” in music. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 52: Snarkosphere
This week on SoundNotion Brahms get his big break on BBC Radio 3, SOPA and PIPA (sopaipilla?), Norman Lebrecht enters the Snark-o-sphere, NPR Field Recordings occupy your local Lowes and FoTS Rob Deemer considers #composerspace. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Sam Merciers.
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SoundNotion 51: Romney/Merciers 2012
This week on SN a new work by Brahms (yes, that Brahms), Mahler adds some marimba (thanks to Patron X), Frank J. Oteri want to know if size matters, a Stradivarius double blind test and we reach to the past for this week’s pick of the week. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 50: POW!!
SoundNotion kicks off the new year with the Queen of Soul’s search for new opera talent, musical happenings, the Oregon Symphony saves some cash, Opera Boston’s sudden crash, the New York Phil’s “newish” music series, and Bang on a Can’s 25th birthday. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Geoffrey Deibel.
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Best of SoundNotion.tv 2011
While we take a couple of weeks to spend time with family and friends, enjoy some of the best moments from across all of our shows this year: SoundNotion, Music is Hard, and Streamers and Punches. See you in 2012!
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SoundNotion 49: Sam Blames You!
Not being the most newsworthy week, the panel takes to the blogs to find some cool stuff happening online including a candid post by Yvonne Lam, new music scores on YouTube, a profile of the GVSU New Music Ensemble, and much more. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 48: Designated Hitter
Bob Lord, CEO of Parma Recordings, joins us to discuss the importance of collaborative networks in new music and creative projects, evaluating music apps, garage chamber music, shorter pieces, again composers and more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Bob Lord.
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SoundNotion 47: A Good Relationship
Armando Bayolo joins the panel to discuss recent awards and nominations, the idea of “frightening music”, the Louisville Orchestra, Occupy Wall Street at Lincoln Center, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, Armando Bayolo.
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SoundNotion 46: This is Probably Illegal"
Timothy Rosenberg and Vctor Mrquez Barrios join us to discuss the Jeffrey Kahane’s Baroque iPad, Wolf Fifth’s awesome archive, UK’s plan to save classical music, what every new music student should know, and much much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Timothy Rosenberg, Vctor Mrquez Barrios.
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SoundNotion 45: New Music Happy Hour"
Chris Richardson joins us to discuss the future of eighth blackbird and New Music Chicago, the intrigue of Google Music, “great men” of the arts, Michael Kaiser’s latest head-scratcher, David Lang on YouTube, and the vital importance of a cheap pint. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers and Chris Richardson.
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SoundNotion 44: Actually it's "Donnacha Dennehy"
Alan Pierson joins the panel to discuss the sum of EMI’s parts, 3D opera, zombie duets, the persistence of Stairway to Heaven, the newly formed New Music USA and his new gig with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers and Alan Pierson.
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SoundNotion 43: Obey SoundNotion
Ty Forquer joins us to give a high-five to the LA Phil, watch the Louisville Orchestra take dangerous steps, see Philip Glass (finally) make the big time, discuss elitism, and debate what exactly makes music “good.” Happy birthday Brassland! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton and Ty Forquer.
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SoundNotion 42: The One With Alex Ross
Alex Ross joins the panel to talk about his career as a music critic, the release of the paperback edition of Listen to This, copyright law, the Occupy Museum movement, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton and Alex Ross.
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SoundNotion 41: Sax-Zombie Apocalypse
Rob Deemer joins the panel to discuss amateurism, the SONiC Festival, the release of a catalogue of forgotten recordings, music and technology, and the most relaxing tune ever. (Try not to fall asleep.) This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo and Rob Deemer.
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SoundNotion 40: Buzzword Bingo
Rachel Yoder joins the panel to discuss SONiC, classical music in bars, racial inequality in arts funding, pension problems with the Philadelphia Orchestra and amateur composers (get enough money to make it through retirement or die tryin’). This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton and Rachel Yoder.
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SoundNotion 39: Undefeated
Los Angeles New Music Ensemble music director Christina Giacona joins the panel to discuss the passing of Steve Jobs, the Gramophone Awards (what’s that?), good times in Seattle and Brooklyn, and the perfidy over donor money in the Philadelphia Orchestra. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, and Christina Giacona.
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SoundNotion 38: Ovation Inflation
This week the panel grooves on Steven Mackey’s It Is Time, how virtuosity can lead to a bland performance, music theory and helicopter shortages in college music programs and the best fake musicology papers Twitter can muster. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Geoffrey Deibel.
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SoundNotion 37: Coach Penderecki
The panel discusses the new Greenwood-Penderecki album, what you can’t do at arts venues, Kojiro Umezaki’s Cycles (what falls must rise), and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 36: Winning Awards
David Smooke joins the panel to discuss the John Cage Memorial Random Composer Award, his provocative NewMusicBox article on The Audience, and his piece, Empty Every Night. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, and David Smooke.
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SoundNotion 35: Remembrance
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, the panel discusses the Music After concert, works inspired by the attacks, the compulsion to write an opera, James Levine’s newest health issues, Nico Muhly’s anger over recordings, and the non-existence of Beethoven. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and David Kulma.
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SoundNotion 34: Time Travel
Composer/performer Ken Ueno joins the panel to discuss political protest at classical concerts, a primer for the classically confused, making better listeners out of composers and audiences, the catharsis of Jimi Hendrix and “success” as a composer. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Ken Ueno.
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SoundNotion 33: Five Murderers
Composer Daniel Felsenfeld discusses Music After (an all day event for composers who lived through the 9/11 attacks), the bold musical life of Jennifer Choi, fisticuffs between the AMF and the Louisville Orchestra and the utility of program notes. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Daniel Felsenfeld.
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SoundNotion 32: SoundNotion’s Porgy and Bess
Composer/scholar Chris Shultis joins the panel to discuss remaking a Gershwin classic, a super-sleuth in the age of opera 2.0, re-thinking the memoir, why doctoral degrees in music composition are dumb and his newest work for band. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Chris Shultis.
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SoundNotion 31: Tongues and Skirts
Composer and performer Missy Mazzoli joins the panel to talk about Yuja Wang’s hemline, the WTC9/11 cover, tweeting at concerts, Spotify for fun and profit, grooving in her living room, and her work A Thousand Tongues for singing cellist. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Missy Mazzoli.
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SoundNotion 30: Opera is Operatic
Colin Jacobsen joins us to talk about Brooklyn Rider’s new Philip Glass album, composer-performer relations, alternate notation styles, the New York City Opera, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, David MacDonald, Sam Merciers and Colin Jacobsen.
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SoundNotion 29: Mos Def-initely
This week, the panel discusses the Brooklyn Phil’s new season, Wagner in Israel, the viability of classical music apps, and more. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers and Patrick Gullo.
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SoundNotion 28: Lawyerville
Drew McManus joins us again to help guide us through Lawyerville in Louisville as we discuss Q2’s composers, Reich’s WTC 9/11 imagery, and more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers and Drew McManus.
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SoundNotion 27: Colonoscopy of a Show
Bill Withem joins us to talk about aesthetic brutalism vs the new niceness, streaming music services, and folks not playing nice in sports and orchestras. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Bill Withem.
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SoundNotion 26: Very Refreshing
Du Yun joins us this week to talk about attracting younger audiences, Zaha Hadid’s new opera house, and her piece, Visissitudes No. 1. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton, Geoffrey Deibel, and Du Yun.
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SoundNotion 25: Badassness
Topics include: what it means to be a badass composer, finding the “American” in American music, writing for piano, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 24: Weak Metaphor
Topics include Rob Deemer’s book project, Jeremy Denk and David Lang talk baseball the value of originality (whatever that is), the future of (batonless) orchestras, a new book of graphic notation, new music-rowboat style, and American experimental music. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, and Rob Deemer.
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SoundNotion 23: Podcasting is Hard
Topics include additions to the SoundNotion network, Alan Pierson’s open letter to mayor Bloomberg, David Smooke’s “nonopera”, NPR’s top 25 classical albums of the year, and the travails of an audio snob in the time of compression. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Timothy Rosenberg.
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SoundNotion 22: Violagate!
Topics include the Violagate scandal, a festival of toy piano music, ASCAP / League of American Orchestras awards for adventurous programming, classical music and copyright at the U.S. Supreme Court, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and David Kulma.
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SoundNotion 21: Dear SoundNotion...
Topics include Ethel’s new violinist, the end of the Kansas Arts Commission, the American Composers Orchestra readings, amateur pianists, new music in Seattle, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 20: Shirtless Guitarist
Meerenai Shim joins the panel this week as we discuss political expression in classical music, the influence of video games on young composers, orchestra news from around the U.S., and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Meerenai Shim.
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SoundNotion 19: Fashion Forward
Topics include lethargy versus creativity, staying apprised of our colleagues' work, the politics and fashion of the orchestral tailcoat, and more. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Tim Rosenberg.
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SoundNotion 18: Hall of Famers
Topics include the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox project, Google’s new music service, revising scores, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 17: It's Always Sunny in East Lansing, 8 May...
Topics include streaming opera performances, the future of American orchestras, rethinking digital distribution, the existential crisis of glockenspiel vibrato, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and David Daniels.
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SoundNotion 16: Blasphemer, 1 May 2011
The h2 quartet’s Kim Goddard joins us this week as we discuss our trip to the New Music USA town hall meeting in Chicago, composer Elliot Cole’s rap EP, corporate sponsorship of the arts, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Kim Goddard.
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SoundNotion 15: The Other Whitesnake, 24 April 2011
Topics include Q2’s list of 100 composers under 40, Zhou Long’s Pulitzer, grooving robots, the future of the avant-garde, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Roger Petersen.
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SoundNotion 14: Really Great Hair, 17 April 2011
Topics include the Brazilian Symphony concert walkout, the rebirth of a Honolulu orchestra, Eric Whitacre’s YouTube choir, music volume wars, new-music in musicology, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 13: Unlucky Thirteen, 10 April 2011
Oh no! We lost most of our episode this week to the computer gremlins. We’re pretty bummed about it. On a brighter note, the Detroit Symphony strike has ended, and Patrick and Nate were there for their season opener.
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SoundNotion 12: Architects vs. Chefs, 3 April 2011
NewMusicBox’s Molly Sheridan joins us to discuss the American Music Center-Meet the Composer merger. We also discuss the latest from the DSO, the RIAA’s suit against Limewire, and Rob Deemer’s article about architects and chefs. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Molly Sheridan.
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SoundNotion 11: Over and Over and Over..., 27 March 2011
Topics include the standardization of musical competence, visual art vs. music, ethnic diversity in young audiences, and pick of the week: Nico Muhly’s “Mothertongue”. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 10: Copyright Radius, 20 March 2011
Topics include the DSO’s latest musician loss, how not to use social media, the YouTube symphony, copyrighting pi, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 9: Adaptistrate This!, 6 March 2011
Orchestra consultant and blogger Drew McManus joins us on the show this week. Topics include the business of a big orchestra, the DSO’s current status, the impact of new and social media on performing arts groups, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Drew McManus.
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SoundNotion 8 "Seventeen Alto Saxophones", 6 March 2011
Composer Matt Schoendorff joins us on the show this week. Topics include Matt’s music for wind ensembles and young musicians, the DSO musician’s offer to end the strike, the economics of classical music, the NEA’s study on the public’s interaction with the arts, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Matt Schoendorff.
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SoundNotion 7 "#accompanisthaiku", 27 February 2011
Topics include Meerenai Shim on patronage and commissioning Daniel Felsenfeld, New York Philharmonic new fundraising ideas, sexy marketing in classical music, diversity in the Vienna Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony administration’s latest threats, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Meerenai Shim.
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SoundNotion 6 "No, really, it's final.", 20 February 2011
Topics include the Detroit Symphony’s big cancellation, NEA budget cuts, controversial remarks from the NEA chair and Kennedy Center president, Michael Daugherty’s Grammy, Anna Nicole up in Lights, Radiohead’s new album, Spider-Man’s broadway spectacle, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 5 "Can You Say 'La Jolla'?", 13 February 2011
Topics include Bachtrack’s report on programming in 2010, the New York Philharmonic’s omission of female composers in the coming season, NY Times columnist Max Frankel’s take on John Adams’s Nixon in China, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, and David MacDonald.
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SoundNotion 4, 6 February 2011
Topics include self-publishing composers, the New World Symphony’s brand new concert hall, the New York Philharmonic’s digital archives, the Detroit Symphony’s efforts to save the rest of their season, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Geoff Deibel.
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SoundNotion 3, 30 January 2011
Topics include Milton Babbitt, his legacy, the future of music patronage on the web, a brief update on the Detroit Symphony labor situation, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 2, 23 January 2011
Topics include a Detroit Symphony strike update, Anthony Tommasini's quest to pick the top 10 composers of all time, the Met's production of Adams's Nixon in China, Alan Pierson's new gig, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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SoundNotion 1, 16 January 2011
Topics include the Detroit Symphony Orchestra strike and financial issues in orchestras today and how these factors impact new music. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.
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