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Composers Datebook
Host John Birge presents Composers Datebook, a daily, two-minute snapshot of composers past and present, with timely information, intriguing musical events, and appropriate, accessible music related to each.
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- Composers Datebook: Symphonic Penderecki
In 1961, a new and difficult work for strings announced the arrival of a composer with a new and difficult name for non-Polish speakers to pronounce…Krzysztof Penderecki. This episode of Composers Datebook looks back at the unique music figure.
- Composers Datebook: Leon Theremin's good vibrations
When a flying saucer circled over Washington, DC, in the classic 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still, it did so to music played on an electronic instrument known as the “Theremin.” On this episode of Composer’s Datebook, a look back at its Russian inventor, Leon Theremin.
- Composers Datebook: Wendy Carlos synthesizes Purcell and Bach
Composers Notebook host John Zech highlights composer Wendy Carlos’ musical development for Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange. As in his earlier hit, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick used classical music. This time, however, in keeping with the film's futuristic storyline, the classics were adapted and arranged for Moog synthesizer by Carlos.