American Mavericks Archives at Q2 Music

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.

Shara Worden Maverick Mixtape on Friday, March 23

Shara Worden takes her turn with Q2 Music’s Maverick Mixtapes this Friday, March 23 at 2pm ET. Follow the link for a tracklist and a statement about her selections, including work by composers that have found their way into her lyrics (Pierre Boulez, George Crumb), and collaborators (Padma Newsome, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and David Lang).

American Mavericks Festival: What's Ahead

The American Mavericks Festival is about to get underway, bringing new music performances and related events to San Francisco, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and New York throughout the month of March. A schedule of events can be found here. (Please note that all of the “Neighborhood Concerts” taking place in New York are free.)

WQXR’s Q2 Music will present a full schedule of related programming, detailed at the link above. Highlights will include live webcasts and recordings of events taking place in New York — including performances by Jennifer Koh, Alarm Will Sound, JACK Quartet with Steve Mackey, and Dan Deacon with NOW Ensemble and Calder Quartet — and Composers in Their Own Words, a series of introductions from Steve Reich, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, David Lang, Judd Greenstein, Tyondai Braxton, Timothy Andres, and many more.

In addition, Q2 Music will broadcast a playlist by a different new musician every day at 2:00 p.m. EST:

The feature presents playlists from renowned artists both within and outside the world of “classical” music. Each day, a new musician will curate an hour’s worth of his or her favorite maverick composers’ music. Featured artists include David Byrne, composer and founding member of the Talking Heads; Brooklyn-based quartet So Percussion; Canadian cellist Zoë Keating; Alarm Will Sound and Brooklyn Philharmonic conductor Alan Pierson; plus Jherek Bischoff, Tyondai Braxton, Dave Douglas, Sam Hillmer, Son Lux, Padma Newsome, Owen Pallett, Richard Reed Parry, Alex Somers, Shara Worden, The National’s Bryce Dessner and many more.

Much of this programming will be archived on the Q2 Music website for on-demand listening.