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New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Majel Connery
15 episodes
3 months ago
Episode 5 of Reverberations centers on a book of piano preludes written and performed by conductor, composer and pianist Teddy Abrams. In the episode, Connery and Abrams discuss his social and pedagogical agenda to reach amateur pianists around the country and the world. “I realized that there are very few living composers who have entered the repertoire for pianists,” says Abrams. “I wanted to write some music that would literally be accessible to anyone.” The episode also explores Abrams’ s...
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Episode 5 of Reverberations centers on a book of piano preludes written and performed by conductor, composer and pianist Teddy Abrams. In the episode, Connery and Abrams discuss his social and pedagogical agenda to reach amateur pianists around the country and the world. “I realized that there are very few living composers who have entered the repertoire for pianists,” says Abrams. “I wanted to write some music that would literally be accessible to anyone.” The episode also explores Abrams’ s...
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Episodes (15/15)
New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Teddy Abrams: Preludes
Episode 5 of Reverberations centers on a book of piano preludes written and performed by conductor, composer and pianist Teddy Abrams. In the episode, Connery and Abrams discuss his social and pedagogical agenda to reach amateur pianists around the country and the world. “I realized that there are very few living composers who have entered the repertoire for pianists,” says Abrams. “I wanted to write some music that would literally be accessible to anyone.” The episode also explores Abrams’ s...
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3 months ago
17 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Juri Seo: Obsolete Music
Episode 4 of Reverberations explores the question: “Can music go out of style?” Composer Juri Seo’s Obsolete Music album suggests that music is ageless. Obsolete Music is Seo’s collaboration with the flexible ensemble Latitude 49. Each track on the record pays homage to a form or style from the past (e.g. “Fugue” or “Ostinato”) in order to reimagine it. Seo’s own decision to become a musician is rooted in an important encounter with Bach and species counterpoint at the age of 11. The epi...
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5 months ago
19 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Alex Paxton: Delicious
This episode of Reverberations is a conversation with composer and trombonist Alex Paxton about his album called Delicious. Host Majel Connery and Paxton discuss his early adulthood as a children’s music educator and how that experience still frames his compositional approach. They delve into the complexity of Paxton’s scores, his concept of melody, and his teenage fantasy of speaking exclusively in trombone. Says Paxton, with characteristic zest for colliding opposites: “my music is inf...
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6 months ago
22 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
David Longstreth: Song of the Earth
In this episode of Reverberations, host Majel Connery talks to David Longstreth about his album, Song of the Earth, an orchestral song cycle featuring Longstreth and his band The Dirty Projectors along with a host of other collaborators, including the commissioning ensemble, s t a r g a z e. Beginning with the album’s titular inspiration, Mahler’s Song of the Earth, Connery and Longstreth discuss the surprising proximity of Mahler and the Beach Boys; the courage to write a triad; Longstreth’s...
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6 months ago
23 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Owls: Rare Birds
The opening episode of Reverberations Season 2 is a conversation with Owls, a pioneering string group that flips the traditional string quartet model to produce an ensemble with 1 violin, 1 viola and 2 cellos. All four members of the group are represented on the call: violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Ayane Kozasa, and cellists Gabriel Cabezas and Paul Wiancko. In the episode, we explore the implications of this “inverted string quartet” in terms of musical dynamics, and how Owls co-creat...
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7 months ago
20 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
William Brittelle: Alive in the Electric Snow Dream
For the lastepisode of the first season of Reverberations, host Majel Connery talks to William Brittelle, one of New Amsterdam Records' co-founders and co-artistic directors, about his album Alive in the Electric Snow Dream, which was released earlier this year and developed in collaboration with Metropolis Ensemble during the COVID-19 pandemic. Support the show
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10 months ago
16 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Adam Tendler: Inheritances
In this episode of Reverberations, host Majel Connery talks to pianist Adam Tendler about his upcoming album, Inheritances. This commissioning project became a live show and, ultimately, an album containing compositional pieces by Laurie Anderson, Missy Mazzoli, Devonté Hynes, and many more artists. Connery and Tendler talk about fragments on Inheritances that involve Adam’s speaking and singing voice. They also discuss Adam’s views on the relationship between music, grief, public healing, an...
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11 months ago
25 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Peni Candra Rini: 'Wulansih' and 'Wani'
On this episode of Reverberations, host Majel Connery and Peni Candra Rini discuss her double album, 'Wulansih' and 'Wani.' Candra Rini, who is from Indonesia, talks about her stylistic flexibility, vocal abilities, and the diverse regional influences in her music. She also addresses the recurring theme of climate change in her work and her ambition to become one of the few prominent female composers from her country.Support the show
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1 year ago
19 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Charlotte Jacobs: a t l a s
This episode of Reverberations features a t l a s, by Belgian-born Charlotte Jacobs. For Jacobs, music is a map and a personal mythology. a t l a s is not just the figure that holds up the world in Classical myths, but a creative urge to world-building present in all of us. Jacobs and host Majel Connery talk about processing anxiety through music, the use of ultra minimal reverb in making electronic landscapes, and Jacobs’ love of spoken word.Support the show
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1 year ago
23 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Ellen Reid: Big Majestic
In this episode of Reverberations, we feature Ellen Reid’s "Big Majestic," which originated from Reid’s "Soundwalk," a multi-year sound installation that has traveled to city parks around the world. The album version of "Big Majestic" has been reimagined to provide a different sonic experience. Host Majel Connery and Reid discuss the genesis of the project, its evolution over time, Reid’s approach to creating music that interacts with the environment, and the key collaborators involved. This ...
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1 year ago
23 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Darian Donovan Thomas: A Room With Many Doors: Night (ARWMD)
In this episode of Reverberations, host Majel Connery speaks with Darian Donovan Thomas about the double album "A Room with Many Doors." Discussing the second album (but first release) titled "Night," they talk about brutal honesty, mapping emotional journeys onto music, "safe spaces" in music, and the craft of artist prompts.Support the show
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1 year ago
22 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Wild Up: Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence
This episode of Reverberations centers on the Los Angeles-based chamber orchestra Wild Up, and their album Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence. The Holy Presence is the fourth in an ongoing series of releases by Wild Up celebrating the work of composer Julius Eastman, who died in 1990. Host Majel Connery speaks to Christopher Rountree, founder, conductor and creative director of Wild Up, and two of the soloists who helped shape the volume: bass-baritone Davóne Tines and cellist Seth Park...
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1 year ago
31 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Mazz Swift: The 10000 Things: PRAISE SONGS for the iRiligious
This episode of Reverberations features Mazz Swift’s new album, The 10000 Things: PRAISE SONGS for the iRiligious. Mazz and host Majel Connery discuss a series of dualities: spirituality for the irreligious; connection and disconnection with the past; and training and un-training virtuosity. Throughout, Mazz wrestles with Western Classical perspectives and how one can "give up the world."Support the show
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1 year ago
31 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Alex Sopp: The Hem & The Haw
This episode of Reverberations features Alex Sopp’s new album, The Hem and the Haw. Alex and host Majel Connery talk about penny whistle freak-outs and landscape painting; Alex’s emergence as a singer and what she calls “the paralysis of potential;” and duality as an organizing force.Support the show
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1 year ago
23 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Claire Dickson: The Beholder
In this episode Claire Dickson and host Majel Connery chat about Dickson’s album, The Beholder, with forays into “princess music” (a.k.a. “pop” influences), demo love, broken madrigals, and the love triangle between performance, improvisation, and composition.Support the show
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1 year ago
24 minutes

New Amsterdam Presents: Reverberations with Majel Connery
Episode 5 of Reverberations centers on a book of piano preludes written and performed by conductor, composer and pianist Teddy Abrams. In the episode, Connery and Abrams discuss his social and pedagogical agenda to reach amateur pianists around the country and the world. “I realized that there are very few living composers who have entered the repertoire for pianists,” says Abrams. “I wanted to write some music that would literally be accessible to anyone.” The episode also explores Abrams’ s...