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#4311: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians, From New Sounds Live
From the New Sounds Live Concerts, recorded in October 2019 at Brookfield Place, Ensemble Signal and Brad Lubman perform Steve Reich’s masterwork Music for 18 Musicians.
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#5042 From Soundcheck: Jlin, Red Baraat
Hear a live set from artist, producer, and educator Jlin (from Gary, Indiana); and a live set by the dhol and brass-wielding Bhangra dance party band Red Baraat, in-studio.
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#5190, A Conversation with Adam Wiltzie
New York-born Brussels-based composer Adam Wiltzie walks us through his posthumous collaborative album with the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, called Friendship Survival Guide.
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#5189, New Releases, September 2026
On this globe-trotting edition of New Sounds, discover some of the best new music that reached our ears in the month of September.
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#5046, Veteran Voices of the Islamic World
Hear great voices of the Islamic world: Baghdadi maqam master Hamid Al Sahdi, Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, and Pakistani singer Ustad Saami, the last living singer in Surti style.
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#5188, New Film Music
Hear new scores by saxophonist Colin Stetson, L.A.-based cellist Kelsey Lu, New York composer Nico Muhly, New York composer and producer Devonté Hynes. Plus, new film music by Son Lux.
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#4927, From the Soundcheck Podcast: Mabe Fratti, Tipa Tipo
Hear Mexico City-based Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti, and Brooklyn-via-Peru combo Tipa Tipo, recorded for the Soundcheck Podcast series.
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#4926, From the Soundcheck Podcast: OKAN, Daymé Arocena
Hear in-studio sessions from the Soundcheck Podcast series from Canadian-based Afro-Cuban duo OKAN and Afro-Cuban singer Daymé Arocena.
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#5187, Non-Western Orchestral Sounds
On this episode of New Sounds, we dive into both new and old music that combines orchestral sounds from West Africa, North Africa, Near East, and South Asia.
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#5040, And the Bells Were Ringing Out...
Hear music that uses bells or is about bells in work by violist and composer Jessica Meyer; a collaboration from vocalist Caroline Shaw and So Percussion; a song by Brian Eno; and more.
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