/tags/american-composers American composers en-US Copyright Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:15:47 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2020-01-23/grammy-nominated-musical-work-tells-story-of-northward-migration It was a fateful trip to the art museum.That trip decades ago, when Derek Bermel was just a kid - long before he became an award-winning composer and… Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:15:47 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2020-01-23/grammy-nominated-musical-work-tells-story-of-northward-migration Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2019-12-04/a-big-honking-mess-the-taxi-horns-in-an-american-in-paris It’s jarring to hear a honking car horn. But on the streets of Paris, honking horns – like good wine, café au lait and the Gallic shrug – are just a part… Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:41:20 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-12-04/a-big-honking-mess-the-taxi-horns-in-an-american-in-paris Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2019-07-16/lancasterchorale-to-perform-all-american-music-during-lancaster-festival “I call it real American music.”That’s how Stephen Caracciolo, artistic director of the LancasterChorale, describes the program for An American Mosaic,… Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:15:27 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-07-16/lancasterchorale-to-perform-all-american-music-during-lancaster-festival Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2019-06-19/an-interview-with-ny-philharmonic-clarinetist-anthony-mcgill Long before clarinetist Anthony McGill and flutist Demarre McGill launched coast-to-coast musical careers, as kids the brothers were each other’s musical… Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:57:03 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-06-19/an-interview-with-ny-philharmonic-clarinetist-anthony-mcgill Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2019-03-29/two-world-premieres-mark-100th-anniversary-of-capital-universitys-conservatory-of-music Two brand-new musical works – involving cutting-edge technology and offering commentary on subjects as diverse as a brassy night in Vegas and the wild and… Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:54:01 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-03-29/two-world-premieres-mark-100th-anniversary-of-capital-universitys-conservatory-of-music Jennifer Hambrick /show/classical-music-with-kent-teeters/2018-08-15/celebrating-leonard-bernstein-the-lenny-list It's simply too difficult to create a list of recordings made by conductor Leonard Bernstein that could be called "The Best of Lenny" or "The Definitive… Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:45:00 GMT /show/classical-music-with-kent-teeters/2018-08-15/celebrating-leonard-bernstein-the-lenny-list Kent Teeters /show/the-american-sound/2017-05-25/carpe-diem-string-quartet-and-leon-littlebird-weave-native-american-and-classical-music-in-new-work An eagle bone whistle. A sacred rattle. A singing turtle. A “love flute.”These are just a few of the ancient Native American instruments showcased in… Thu, 25 May 2017 20:52:09 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2017-05-25/carpe-diem-string-quartet-and-leon-littlebird-weave-native-american-and-classical-music-in-new-work Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2015-12-17/composer-and-flutist-katherine-hoover-goes-this-way-about-in-her-first-collection-of-poems When the award-winning flutist and composer Katherine Hoover starts writing a new piece of music, she’s never sure where it’s going to go. And she’s okay… Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:00:00 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2015-12-17/composer-and-flutist-katherine-hoover-goes-this-way-about-in-her-first-collection-of-poems Jennifer Hambrick