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  • 12:00 AM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 11:00 AM
  • Loops, Ladders and Wind-Up Birds

    On this specially curated week of Hammered! we spotlight a new album of piano music by New York-based composer Ryan Anthony Francis. The record features Bang On A Can pianist Vicky Chow, who, with Francis, joins Hammered! throughout the week with insights on this exquisite new body of piano music.

  • 12:00 PM
  • Life After 40

    The response to Q2 and NPR Music’s crowdsourced 100 Composers Under 40 project has been amazing and endlessly fascinating. As an under-40 myself, I’m constantly amazed by both the quality and quantity of new works churned out by my (far more talented) peers.

  • 04:00 PM
  • Wild Reich
    Bang on a Can co-founder and Pulitzer laureate David Lang joins us on Monday at 4pm (along with several surprise guests!) to talk about Steve Reich and his uncanny ability to "unlea...
  • 05:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 08:00 PM
  • Big Ears, Big Mouths
    Goethe once said, "music starts where words end." But what about when the words continue and the music joins in? All Ears celebrates this overlap by offering selections that combin...
  • 10:00 PM
    Special Programming
     
     
  • 11:00 PM
  • Loops, Ladders and Wind-Up Birds

    On this specially curated week of Hammered! we spotlight a new album of piano music by New York-based composer Ryan Anthony Francis. The record features Bang On A Can pianist Vicky Chow, who, with Francis, joins Hammered! throughout the week with insights on this exquisite new body of piano music.