Gernot Wolfgang's chamber music album - VIENNA AND THE WEST is a follow-up to the composer's PASSING THROUGH, which received rave reviews and went on to be nominated for a 2016 GRAMMY Award in the category Best Classical Compendium. Recorded in Los Angeles by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, the Albany Records recording presents six compositions which acknowledge Wolfgang's deep Austrian musical roots, filtered through more than twenty years of California living. His ongoing quest to integrate rhythms – creates an extensive slow, floating, meditative groove-oriented chamber music. In conjunction with the media campaign, Wolfgang will sit down today!! April 25, with radio stations across the US. Watch for our tweets p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px}

What happens when you combine the singular sound of award winning soprano saxophonist & NASA artist Jane Ira Bloom with the technical artistry of legendary audio engineer Jim Anderson and tonmeister Ulrike Schwarz? The surround sound Grammy winning team has upped their game to showcase excerpts from their latest project which features Bloom's albums "Sixteen Sunsets" "Early Americans" & "Wild Lines" in ground breaking Dolby Atmos at the High End Audio Conference in Munich Germany May 9-12.  The project "Above and Beyond" showcases Bloom's music the way you've never heard it before with the surround sound recording extended into full 360-degree space. The team will preview, perform, and discuss their work of combining the highest standards of artistic and technical collaboration, live and up close as guests of PMC Speakers and Dolby Atmos at the High End audio show.  In early 2019 Jim Anderson & Ulrike Schwarz went into both Skywalker Sound in Northern California to mix in 3D audio and the famous Capitol Studios in Los Angeles to mix Bloom's recordings in Dolby Atmos. The results are like no other recording you've ever heard before.  Jane Ira Bloom's immersive music will premiere in room F123. SEE THE Jazz-Quad PAGE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px}

Emmy Award winning broadcast Ed Berliner is joined by a man with some impressive hardware of his own: Multiple Grammy Award nominee and winner Dr. Ed Calle. It's an intimate and revealing conversation about humble beginnings, meeting and working with musical legends that would make anyone nervous, what he's doing to ensure the future of music in our schools, and a few "unplugged" moments that prove why he's been called one of the most versatile sax players on the planet. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d}

Sarah McKenzie has recently released; Secrets of My Heart, where she reunites with noted Australian composer, arranger, and events music director, Chong Lim, who produced her first two discs. The musician lineup for the album includes; French bassist Pierre Boussaguet and Brazilian percussionist Rogerio Bocattoalongside guitarist Dan Wilson, drummer Donald Edwards, vibraphonist Warren Wolf,tenor saxophonist Troy Roberts, and cellist Jody Redhage Ferber(all of whom based in the United States). McKenzie stopped by ZDF: mo:ma magazin for a live segment. WATCH THE SEGMENT

Ben Cooper's latest EP as Radical Face is Therapy. The collection, which arrives April 26 via Bear Machine, is both a continuation and departure from his eight-year, three-part Family Tree series. Through those releases, he explored his complex family life, ultimately realizing that the material proved difficult to perform and difficult to live with. Having relocated to Los Angeles after an intense court battle involving his family, Cooper soon began attending weekly therapy sessions. The process sparked his latest EP, resulting in a collection of songs that are thoughtful and which perfectly capture the precarious nature of opening one's soul and seeing what, if anything, is worth keeping and what must be cast away. At times cinematic but always honest and emotionally engaging, Therapy never overplays its emotional hand is all the more necessary for it. Cooper recently spoke with PopMatters Jedd Bueadoin about the record's origins and, yes, his journey through therapy.
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In 1961, Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev became the first artist during the Cold War to defect to the West. In The White Crow, we learn his story. This new biopic, which was directed by Ralph Fiennes (who also acts in the film as Alexander Pushkin), tracks the legendary Nureyev's childhood in poverty to his role as a young soloist in the Kirov Ballet, and eventually his defection. Naturally, a story so intertwined with personal, artistic, and political history requires a powerful musical score. Fiennes enlisted Ilan Eshkeri for the task. Eshkeri, who is well-known for his scores in Still Alice and The Young Victoria, created a bold and cinematic work of music. We talk with him about his score, the ethics of composing a person's true story, and what it was like to team up once again with Fiennes after their work on films Coriolanus and The Invisible Woman. READ THE CutCommon INTERVIEW

A National Medal of Arts recipient and former composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (1994–2001), American choral composer Morten Lauridsen is the country's most-performed choral composer and with over 200 albums containing his work, one of the most recorded. Recognized the world over, on his 75th birthday this year, the Chamber Choir of Europe recorded Lauridsen's landmark compositions, including two world premiere recordings, in close collaboration with the composer himself. Lauridsen joins FM91WGTE: Toledo OH, classical host - Brad Cresswell to talk about the latest album made up entirely of his music: Light Eternal, from Deutsche Grammophone records. LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px}