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#4936, Postminimalist Works With Winds
Hear work from California-based composer/software developer Brian Baumbusch, London-based producer/multi-instrumentalist Akusmi, and Montreal-based sax player/composer Colin Stetson.
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#4935, Based On Folk Songs
Hear many ways of interpreting American folk songs from musician/scholar Jake Blount and bassist/bandleader Mali Obomsawin, pianist Lara Downes, and American composer Peter Gena.
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#5181, 9/11 Works
Revisit works that commemorate the 9/11 attacks by Steve Reich, John Adams, and Elodie Lauten.
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#5014, With Claire Chase
Claire Chase, the flutist, educator, and new music champion, is the 2025 Ojai Festival's Music Director. She presents works by Susie Ibarra, Liza Lim, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
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#5180, The Klezmatics, Live on Soundcheck
The Klezmatics take traditional klezmer music and inject punk energy, gospel fervor, global rhythms, and improvisation. They play new songs of resilience and joy, in-studio.
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#5028, Afro-jazz
Hear music with a direct connection to Africa by sax player Marshall Allen; flutist Nicole Mitchell and kora player Ballaké Sissoko as bandleaders; the Ethiojazzers Tezeta, and more.
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#4934, Works by Julius Eastman and Works for Multiple Cellos
Hear work for multiple cellos, and music by Julius Eastman, and the work where the two threads overlap - "The Holy Presence of Jean d'Arc" as played by cellist Seth Parker Woods.
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#4933, From New Sounds Live: ETHEL and Allison Loggins-Hull
From the New Sounds Live concerts, the string quartet ETHEL joins forces with composer and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull for a quintet program of new commissions, recorded at Merkin Hall.
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#4932, Electronic Music, Old and New
Music by Vienna-based American musician/artist Ariadne Randall; vintage computer music from American Paul Lansky; and a work by experimental electronic composer Elori Saxl.
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#5027, Musical Tributes to Terry Riley
Hear musical tributes to minimalist composer Terry Riley for his 90th birthday from keyboardist/composer Lorna Dune, American pianist Marco Benevento, and by clarinetist Evan Ziporyn.
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