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To celebrate Network's 25th Anniversary, Linda Reichert asked 25 composers to each write a variation on Diabelli's waltz, made famous by Beethoven's variations on that theme.  Hear interviews with two of these composers about the project:

 

 

 

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Hear the Network for New Music musicians rehearsing Ian Munro's new work Megathere, Multiplexing, as composer Ian Munro and poet Cort Day speak about their collaboration.

Randall Scarlata, baritone

Paul Arnold, violin

James Cooper III, cello

Jeremy Gill, conductor

 

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Composer Maurice Wright talks about Darwiniana, a multimedia work for live musicians, "visual music compositions," and still images drawn from Darwin's publications.

 

 

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Intimate, passionate, lyrical -- the surviving fragments of Sappho's poetry have moved generations of artists.  Inspired by the beauty of her words, composer Bernard Rands set them to music in an exquisite work of "wonderful strangeness and mystery" (Philadelphia Inquirer).  Mezzo Janice Felty joins the Network for New Music Ensemble once more for "now again" -fragments from Sappho, and other compelling music from this Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.  Stay tuned for Network for New Music's upcoming CD release of Rands' music.