Podcast

PERSPECTIVE – Inspired by Edgard Varèse's paradigm-shifting work for solo flute, Density 21.5, flutist Claire Chase has pushed to the mid-point of a herculean project she calls Density 2036. She dives into the venture with Gail Wein.

PERSPECTIVE - Joining Gail Wein on her podcast, violinist Colin Jacobsen, co-founder of the Brooklyn Rider string quartet and a composer, explores the foursome's new enterprise called "Citizenship Notes," honoring the nation's birth.

PERSPECTIVE – In her second podcast, Gail Wein chats with soprano Lucy Shelton, who brings her vast experience with modern music to bear in demonstrating the radical sung-speech vocalism Schoenberg used in his atonal Pierrot lunaire.

PERSPECTIVE – The still-controversial composer, born 150 years ago, believed that "music should not come easily," says Donald Berman, president of the Charles Ives Society, the debut guest on Wein's Classical Gas series on our website.