The lineup for MusicNOW 2013 in Cincinnati (a festival founded by The National’s Bryce Dessner) has been announced. Highlights include Steve Reich, Sō Percussion, The Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Ariel Quartet with Shara Worden, Glen Hansard, Richard Reed Parry, and many more. Tickets for the festival running April 12-14 are on sale at the link.
Listen to a brief Classic FM interview with Richard Reed Parry discussing his compositions and his work with Kronos Quartet.
Richard Reed Parry - Interruptions For Heart and Breath (performed by Richard Reed Parry, yMusic, Bryce Dessner, and Aaron Dessner), live at Ecstatic Music Festival, February 8, 2012
Q2 Music has now archived many of the programs associated with the American Mavericks Festival, including all of the Maverick Mixtapes, with selections from Owen Pallett, Shara Worden, Richard Reed Parry, and Son Lux. Bryce Dessner was originally on the mixtapes schedule, but it never aired.
If you missed the March 24 live broadcast of the Anonymous 4 program featuring Mountain Goats member John Darnielle’s song cycle Transcendental Youth, arranged by Owen Pallett, listen at the link here.
Explore Wrapping Up Ecstatic 2012 for the best of this year’s Ecstatic Music Festival.
Tune in March 21 at 2pm ET for Q2’s Maverick Mixtapes session with composer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre.
“I find that most of these pieces have a hypnotic quality, are all full of many gorgeous details, and each seems to pay attention to harmonics and overtones in a pronounced and unique way.” - Richard Reed Parry
"But the biggest distinguishing mark of the indie-classical scene is its lack of distinguishing marks. This is music that does not have to argue for its very right to exist, which means it's free to drift into dreamy cul-de-sacs, to explore drift and texture, to smear the borders of form."
-Jayson Greene (Pitchfork)
Indie-classical, new music, alt-classical, DIY indie--call it what you will.
yMusic, Clogs, Steve Reich, Son Lux, Nico Muhly, Sarah Kirkland Snider, My Brightest Diamond, David Lang, Philip Glass, Owen Pallett, Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, Jonny Greenwood, Judd Greenstein, Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, Sufjan Stevens, and many more.
Listen in on WQXR's Q2 radio, streaming new music all day.
