NEW CLASSICAL – JOHN BRUCE YEH
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by mtoulouse
1d ago
New Classical Featured Artist – 03/25/24 – 04/07/24 This week’s playlist (originally streamed in April of 2023) features performances by John Bruce Yeh, the assistant principal clarinetist and solo E-flat clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was hired by Sir Georg Solti in 1977 at the young age of 19! The son of music-loving scientists in Los Angeles, John Bruce Yeh defines himself as a musical explorer. He pursued pre-medical studies at UCLA, where he won the Frank Sinatra Musical Performance Award and performed as Principal Clarinetist of the American Youth Symphony under Mehli ..read more
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NEW CLASSICAL – NILO ALCALA
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by mtoulouse
1w ago
New Classical Featured Artist – 03/15/24 – 03/25/24 In this encore playlist (originally shared for Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in 2023), we feature works by Filipino-American composer Nilo Alcala. His works have been performed in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He is the first Philippine-born composer to receive the COPLAND HOUSE Residency Award, as well to be commissioned and premiered by the Grammy-winner Los Angeles Master Chorale. Alcala’s awards include The American Prize in Composition 2018-2019, POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award from The Esoterics (Seattle ..read more
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LOCAL CLASSICAL – ORION R. FARRAR
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by Salvador Perez Lopez
3w ago
Local Classical Featured Artist – 03/04/24 – 03/17/24 In this week’s playlist, we feature Indianapolis-born composer, Orion R Farrar! Farra’s father, John, a shoemaker who was born in England, migrated to America, where he met and married Amanda, born in Indiana. A year after Orion’s birth the Farrar family moved to Warren, Ohio, where the young musician completed high school and, at the age of 19, enrolled in Dana’s Musical Institute, later (since 1941) known as the Dana School of Music of Youngstown State University. Farrar enrolled in the four-year course and earned diplomas in music theory ..read more
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NEW CLASSICAL – OSCARS
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by Salvador Perez Lopez
1M ago
New Classical Featured Playlist – 02/26/24 – 03/10/24 In this week’s playlist, we feature film scores for the upcoming 2024 Academy Awards. This year, the Oscars will take place on Sunday, March 10th. We’ll hear some great scores from films you know and love by composers like John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Hans Zimmer, Ludwig Göransson, Rachel Portman, and many more. Connect with this great movie music-filled playlist to get in the spirit for Oscar season. All this when you connect with Classical Music Indy Streaming’s New Classical channel. Image credit: Mirko Fabian ..read more
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LOCAL CLASSICAL – SOFIA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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by Salvador Perez Lopez
1M ago
Local Classical Featured Artist – 02/19/24 – 03/03/24 In this week’s playlist, we feature the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in honor of their upcoming performance at The Palladium on Friday, February 23rd, at 8 PM! With a history dating to the 1890s, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra has been known since 1945 as the national orchestra of Bulgaria and remains one of that nation’s leading cultural institutions. Its repertoire comprises works from the entire historically available range of music – from classical to contemporary opuses, including premiere performances of numerous works by Bulgarian ..read more
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LOCAL CLASSICAL – DEMONDRAE THURMAN
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by Salvador Perez Lopez
1M ago
Local Classical Featured Artist – 02/05/24 – 02/18/24 In this week’s playlist, we feature Eugene O’Brien Bicentennial Executive Associate Dean, professor of music in euphonium, and chair of the Brass Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Demondrae Thurman! He has an outstanding international reputation as a euphonium soloist, having performed in Europe, Asia, and throughout North America. Many of America’s premier colleges and universities have hosted him as a performer and teacher, and he continues to be in high demand. Over the past 10 years, he has been an invited gue ..read more
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NEW CLASSICAL – TERENCE BLANCHARD
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by Salvador Perez Lopez
2M ago
Local Classical Featured Artist – 01/29/24 – 02/11/24 This month’s playlist features composer and renowned trumpet player, Terence Blanchard! He is unique in the jazz world as an artist whose creative endeavors go far beyond the genre into film scoring, crafting television series soundscapes and conceiving grand operas that have been recognized at the highest levels of art appreciation. In addition, Blanchard has been at the forefront of giving voice in his works to socio-cultural issues and racial injustices of our time.  “Like anybody else, I like to play feel-good party music, but ..read more
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LOCAL CLASSICAL – EUCLID QUARTET
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by Salvador Perez Lopez
2M ago
Local Classical Featured Artist – 01/22/23 – 02/04/24 In this week’s playlist, we feature the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at Indiana University South Bend, the Euclid Quartet in honor of their newly released album, Breve! There will be a CD Release Concert and Party on January 31st. For all those details click here. The EUCLID QUARTET enjoys one of the most highly regarded reputations of any chamber ensemble of its generation. Captivating audiences and critics ranging from Carnegie Hall to school classrooms to radio and television broadcasts, the quartet consistently performs to enthusiastic ..read more
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NEW CLASSICAL – PHILIP GLASS
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by Salvador Perez Lopez
2M ago
New Classical Featured Playlist – 01/15/24 – 01/28/24 In this week’s playlist, we feature composer, Philip Glass! Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. He was born in 1937 and grew up in Baltimore. He studied at the University of Chicago, the Juilliard School and in Aspen with Darius Milhaud. Finding himself dissatisfied w ..read more
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NEW CLASSICAL – ERROLLYN WALLEN
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by Salvador Perez Lopez
3M ago
New Classical Featured Artist – 01/01/24 – 01/14/24 In this week’s playlist, we feature multi-award-winning Belize-born British composer and performer, Errollyn Wallen. Her prolific output includes twenty-two operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber and vocal works which are performed and broadcast throughout the world. She was the first black woman to have a work featured in the Proms and the first woman to receive an Ivor Novello award for Classical Music for her body of work. Errollyn composed for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games 2012, for the Queen’s Golden and Diamo ..read more
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