Lisa Bielawa is a New York based composer and her ongoing musical project "Broadcast From Home" has brought socially distanced composing to communities in over 4 continents. It's a two way relationship with words coming in and music going out and it's having a profound effect on the composer and her contributors living under Covid-19.
Contributions to Lisa Bielawa's Broadcast From Home can be made here.
"Surely I've written better things," Beethoven said of his Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor. So why does everybody adore the "Moonlight"; which after all is just one third of the whole sonata? Paavali Jumppanen gives his reasons and plays it for us live.
Paavali Jumppanen has just been appointed the new Artistic Director of ANAM, the Australian National Academy of Music. Paavali Jumppanen's book on Beethoven is on its way. See his website for Beethoven blogs and other things.
And another Shout Out; The Chats by Richard Tognetti.
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Music heard in this hour for Lisa Bielawa:
Title: Broadcast from Home, excerpts from Chapters 1 and 5
Comp: Lisa Bielawa
Perf: Various including the composer
Mannes School of Music instrumentalists
Mannes School of Music singers
New Amsterdam Singers
Kaufman Music Center, Face the Music instrumentalists:
Music heard in this hour for Paavali Jumppanen:
Title: Piano Sonata in C# minor 'Quasi una fantasia', Op. 27 no 2. 1st movement (Moonlight)
Comp: Beethoven
Perf: Paavali Jumppanen
CD: Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op. 14, 22, 26, 27 "Moonlight", Op. 28 "Pastoral" & 49
Label: Ondine ODE 1280-2D
Plus Live Performance by Paavali Jumppanen of 1st Movement of this Sonata in the ABC studios
Track Title: Prestissimo from Piano Sonata in E major, Op.109
Artist: Paavali Jumppanen
Composer: Beethoven
CD Title: Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op. 7, 13 'Pathétique', 109, 110, 111
Record Co/Number: Ondine ODE 1298-2D
Shout Out track:
Track Title: Smoko
Artist: The Chats
Composer: The Chats
CD Title: Get this InYa
Record Co/Number: The Chats
Track Title: Street Fighter Mas
Artist: Kamasi Washington
Composer: Washington
CD Title: Heaven and Earth
Record Co/Number: Young Turks YT176CD
Producers: Penny Lomax & Ellie Parnell
Sound Engineers: Emrys Cronin & Hamish Camilleri