NICOLE V. GAGNÉ

This show, first broadcast on May 17, 2015, is devoted to the work of two composer/conductors: American Gunther Schuller and France’s Pierre Boulez. Along with Schuller’s own modernist scores, his recordings with the Ebony Band, championing Robert F. Graettinger, are heard. Boulez’s own electro-acoustic composition is complemented by his leading the Cleveland Orchestra in the music of Claude Debussy. The music played is:

GUNTHER SCHULLER

Spectra (1958)

Triplum (1967)

ROBERT F. GRAETTINGER

City of Glass (1947 version)

Untitled (1948)

PIERRE BOULEZ

… explosante-fixe … (1993)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Jeux (1912)

Link to:

Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018

For more on these composers, see:

Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition

More Cool Sites To Visit! – Music

For more on Pierre Boulez, see:

Music Lecture: “Intense Purity of Feeling”: Béla Bartók and American Music

Music Lecture: My Experiences of Surrealism in 20th-Century American Music

For more on Claude Debussy, see:

Music: SFCR Radio Show #20, Neo-Classicism, part 1

For more on Robert F. Graettinger, see:

Music: SFCR Radio Show #13, Dying Young, part 1: Three American Composers