EPISODE · Jul 28, 2013 · 58 MIN
Composers Kevin Puts and Derek Bermel
from The 7th Avenue Project · host Robert Pollie
Composer Kevin Puts returns to this year's Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music with his new Flute Concerto and a Pulitzer Prize on his credit. Kevin and I talked about the new work and its charming backstory; about his love of heartfelt music, whatever proponents of modernist abstraction may say; and about his choice of a contemplative composing career over the athletic rigors of concert piano. In the second part of the show, globe-trotting composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel describes Dust Dances, an orchestral piece based on his studies of the West African xylophone known as the gyil. Both Dust Dances and the Flute Concerto will be performed on opening night of the Cabrillo Festival.
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Composer Kevin Puts returns to this year's Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music with his new Flute Concerto and a Pulitzer Prize on his credit. Kevin and I talked about the new work and its charming backstory; about his love of heartfelt music, whatever proponents of modernist abstraction may say; and about his choice of a contemplative composing career over the athletic rigors of concert piano. In the second part of the show, globe-trotting composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel describes Dust Dances, an orchestral piece based on his studies of the West African xylophone known as the gyil. Both Dust Dances and the Flute Concerto will be performed on opening night of the Cabrillo Festival.
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Composers Kevin Puts and Derek Bermel
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