On today’s show: New York Times Social Q’s columnist Philip Galanes takes your calls and questions about how to navigate the social and romantic minefield that is Valentine’s Day. We’ll look at the life and work of fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga. Martin Moran talks about his one-man show called “All the Rage.”
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What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, Cubism and abstraction were revealed to the American public for the first time. In Vienna, audience members at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky ...
For this New Sounds, listen to works for piano. There's a disquieting nocturne by Christopher Cerrone, called “Hoyt Schermerhorn,” performed by pianist/composer Timo Andres, chased by a work by Timo Andres himself. Also, listen to Takashi Kako’s music and its echoes of Debussy, along with a work for piano and Peter Machajdik, featuring a cameo by a bass clarinet. Then, sample a work by the Greek composer based in Canada, Constantine Caravassilis called "to a Galliform Marionette." That, and more.
