Q2 Music Is Sure To Shift Your Paradigm

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Q2 Music delivers a sea of brilliant new sounds by living composers.

Deftly guided by knowledgeable hosts—including Nadia Sirota and Olivia Giovetti—your preconceptions of music will be challenged, and possibly fade, as your appreciation for the unfamiliar is instinctively expanded.

Q2 Music is a member-supported, online music station that is available 24/7. You can find them online here, or listen to some favorites below:

Kristin Lee Plays Eugene Ysaye’s Sonata No. 4, I. Allemanda

Philip Glass and Tim Fain

Live from The Met Museum’s Iconic Temple of Dendur

Hosted by Terrance McKnight
« Listen on Q2music » These episodes originally aired Tuesday, April 17, 2012.

Program
Mad Rush
Partita for Solo Violin in Seven Movements
Metamorphosis 4 and 5
The Screens: France / The Orchard / The French Lieutenant

Due East: Music by Lei Liang, Chen Yi and Tigran Mansuryan

Asian Folk Traditions in the Works of Exciting New-Music Composers

Hosted by Brandon Patrick George
« Listen on Q2music » These episodes originally aired Sunday, November 13, 2011.

Notation, Notation, Notation

Turning Sound into Representational Squiggles

“…In my brain, music notation is kind of a code or map that the composer gives the performer, a set of clues that ultimately helps the performer to communicate the composer’s intent to a bunch of people who have to absorb a whole work of art in the span of minutes.” –Nadia Sirota >> Read more…
« Listen on Q2music » These episodes originally aired Monday, September 26, 2011.

Requiem Project: Part III

« Listen on Q2music » Aired Friday, September 09, 2011

Spiegel im Spiegel: Arvo Part (Piano & cello) at 105:50

The Space Between

Positive and Negative Space in Harmony

With John Cage, Lisa Batiashvili and more.
« Listen on Q2music » These episodes originally aired the week of August 15, 2011.

On-Demand Webcast from the Temple of Dendur

Remembering September 11: A Commemorative Concert from the Met Museum’s Temple of Dendur

The Quartet: Keats Dieffenbach, violin; Caroline Shaw; Nadia Sirota, viola; Clarice Jensen, cello.
« Listen on Q2music » Aired Sunday, September 11, 2011

Tenebrae by Osvaldo Golijov

Live @Guggenheim: The Sinking of the Titanic

The Wordless Music Orchestra Performs Gavin Bryars’s Masterful The Sinking of the Titanic

« Listen on Q2music » Aired Thursday, April 14, 2011

SONiC Portrait: Matt Marks

From Self-Described ‘Manipulative Pop Songs’ to Progressive French Horn

« Listen on Q2music » Aired on Thursday, October 13, 2011

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