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Let"s Talk About Music!

This is an informal chat with performers and composers about their craft, about their lives and about music itself, with an emphasis on understanding and enjoying classical music and other genres that are not quite mainstream.

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00:37:15

A conversation with composer Amy Gordon

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2021/06/23

Amy Gordon is a composer that lives in Los Angeles. Join us to hear Amy's choral music, from the cheerful Alleluia to the COVID related In Times of Hibernation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:51:48

A chat with the composer Joshua Fishbein.

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2021/06/08

In this episode, Joshua and I chat about his music and we listen to some his choral compositions. Stay tuned and you will hear some beautiful works. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:38:43

A conversation with composer Carol Barnett about her...

Let"s Talk About Music! ·

2021/05/11

Carol Barnett's music is accesible and contemporary at the same time. The essence of her modernity is not the use of harsh, dissonant chords but the weaving of chords we are familiar with in unfamiliar patterns that make the music at the same time fresh and agreeable to the ear. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:37:28

A chat with composer Forrest Pierce about his music,...

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2021/05/04

Forrest Pierce's music is ethereal and explores sacred and trascendental topics. He draws inspiration from Christianity sacred texts as well as from texts of other traditions and he has a way of setting these texts that can transport you somewhere else, which is always a very nice sensation. We talked about his writing and about music in general, exchanging frank opinions about the use of different musical languages in our works. --- Support this podcast:

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00:42:57

A chat with composer Katerina Gimon about her music...

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2021/04/27

In this conversation we cover a chamber music work of Katerina which is wholly aleatory and 2 choral pieces which have aleatory elements. I found fascinating the structuring of a whole piece of instrumental chamber music, Rain on a Tin Roof, on 22 small segments of music, each containing from 2 notes to 10 notes, called "cells" which the instruments repeated, or not, as they advanced from cell 1 to cell 22 and back. And then we talk about the use of syllables in choral music which have no meaning,

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00:47:27

A chat with Sarah Rimkus about aleatory music and her...

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2021/04/13

Aleatory means, basically, improvised. It is a type of music where you write some musical guidelines for the performers to follow but you don't write every note, every beat of the music. It gives us different possibilities for the same music, to a degree. All three pieces have elements that are not fully notated, but the first one is the one that is 97% aleatory. There is also an element of social justice in her music as the work Uprooted takes us to the interment of American citizens of Japanese

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00:41:57

A dive with David Dies into his contemporary...

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2021/04/06

In this episode we listen to an oboe concerto, a work for two sopranos and a piano solo piece and we get to experience life through David Dies musical language, which borders in the atonal and gives us a challenge, but with great rewards if we accept it. I find that with commercial music, for example, you can wait for the music to come to you and move you or not, but it doesn't require great participation. Contemporary classical music, on the other hand, requires for you to actively strip yourself

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00:32:58

A chat with Jordan Nelson on reinterpreting the...

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2021/03/30

Join Jordan and me in a chat about his projects of writing new music based on the standards of the American Songbook. Listen to Jordan's take on Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, Tea for Two and Begin the Beguine, as interpreted at the piano by pianist Tom Kotcheff of the piano duo Hocket. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:48:56

A chat with composer Gregory Brown about his music

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2021/03/24

Gregory composes choral music and has his own style. The texts he used are very interesting and you will learn something about contemporary choral music if you listen to this conversation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:48:07

A chat with composer Kile Smith

Let"s Talk About Music! ·

2021/03/16

I met Kile Smith through his choral music. He was nominated for a 2020 Grammy for his work The Arc in the Sky, of which we will hear the first movement. Kile writes music in his own singular style and I think you will find enlightening to listen to his music preceded by own commentary about it. As with all my podcasts, feel free to join us for all of it or for only part of it. These podcast do not try to make a point or explain a concept but they are a vehicle to leisurely listen to music and enjoy

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00:43:07

A chat with composer Robert Sheldon

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2021/03/09

Robert Sheldon is a very well known symphonic band music composer in the U.S. We listened to two works of his and we talked about how he works and how he arrived at his compositions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:39:57

A chat with composer Eduardo Alonso Crespo

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2021/01/27

Eduardo Alonso Crespo is a neo-classical composer from Argentina and he shares with us some of his works on the ocassion of Ellie Weingarten's release of a recording of Crespo's double concerto for oboe and clarinet. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:42:07

A chat with composer David Lefkowitz

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2021/01/13

Professor David Lefkowitz teaches composition and music theory at UCLA. We collaborated on a project called "David", which is an oratorio about the life of the biblical King David. We both form part of the Hefner composer group, which did the work and I wanted to share his story and some of his music with you. His music is contemporary classical, which entails an interesting use of dissonance while being melodical too. Kind of a modern post-modern. We took one piece and we stopped it at 2 spots to

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00:48:14

A chat with Shawn Kirchner about arranging, composing...

Let"s Talk About Music! ·

2020/12/25

Shawn is well known as a choral composer, arranger and also as a songwriter. We talked with him about his different hats and his approach on music. This is the last episode of Season 1, which was the initial season. We will continue in 2021 with season 2. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:50:09

Episode 9 - A chat with composer Kurt Knecht about...

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2020/10/23

In this episode we talk about composing music and we listen to 3 different works by Kurt Knecht: an organ work, a choral work and a chamber piece for piano and cello. Kurt has a very definite and distinctive style of writing and we chat about composing classical music at this time, we share experiences and we also share a few laughs. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:39:53

A talk with Alex Shapiro about electroacoustic music

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2020/10/16

Alex Shapiro is a composer that, these days, writes primarily electroacoustic music for band but that has composed in many styles and genres, from film music to TV music to chamber music to symphonic band music. We talk about her carreer and about combining musicians performing live with a prepared track. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:33:48

A conversation with Robyn Lana about music...

Let"s Talk About Music! ·

2020/10/01

Robyn Lana is the founder and artistic director of the Cincinnati Youth Choir, which in a normal year has 900-1000 singers. I talked with her about running a youth choir during this pandemic and also about programming music for youth and children's choir in general. The podcast ends with a beautiful rendition by the Cincinnati Youth choir of the work We Will do Miracles by Dominic DiOrio, composed for them. (The music comes in after we say our good byes. ) --- Support this podcast:

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00:47:10

A conversation about Middle Eastern Music with...

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2020/09/22

In this podcast I talk with Proffesor Mark Kligman. director of the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, about Middle Eastern Music, particularly about the use of two extra tones that do not figure in Western music scales, one which would be between E and Eb and another that would be between B and Bb and how the use of those 2 tones gives Middle Eastern music its unique character. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:44:22

A conversation with composer Gernot Wolfgang about...

Let"s Talk About Music! ·

2020/09/15

Composer Gernot Wolfgang was nominated for a Grammy award in 2016 for his CD Passing Through. He lives in L.A., writes chamber music and his music uniquely mixes classical and jazz elements, making it original, interesting and accesible. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergio-barer/support

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00:47:08

A conversation about Theatre Music with composer Adam...

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2020/09/08

In this episode composer Adam Wernick talks with composer Sergio Barer about writing music for the theatre, its peculiarities, its difficulties and its triumphs. We hear several segments of Adam's music- which has been performed in or by The Guthrie Theater,The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Classic Stage Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Denver Center Theatre Company, Red Bull Theater, The Wilma Theater, Old Globe Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company- and the stories

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