On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast guest host, Steve Seel features the SPCO and welcomes back beloved Artistic Partner Pekka Kuusisto with a varied and colorful program. Cindy Cox’s new work for the SPCO was inspired by photographs of remote and endangered geographic locales captured with an antique camera. After the horrors of World War I, Ralph Vaughan Williams sought to capture a simpler time with his famous tone poem for violin and chamber orchestra, a work that shares with Cox a sense of fragility about the natural world. Louise Farrenc’s little-known but masterful ‘Symphony No. 3’ brings this concert to a dramatic conclusion.

Steve Seel possesses a broad knowledge of many musical genres, having hosted radio programs ranging from classical to jazz and even avant-garde music at public radio stations around the country. Steve came to Minnesota Public Radio in 1999 to be a part of its nationally-syndicated classical music programming. In 2005, he became one of the founding voices on MPR's eclectic station The Current, and has hosted various time slots from mornings to late nights, and conducted in-depth interviews with pop music luminaries ranging from Brian Eno to David Byrne to Tori Amos. 
 
Steve is an avid reader of political and social commentary as well, and he emcees The Current's popular Policy and a Pint community series, featuring discussions with noted scholars, politicians, community leaders, authors and big thinkers on important issues of the day. Steve is also a basement composer obsessed with all things both minimalist and slow, and might actually be incapable of writing anything that exceeds 75 beats-per-minute.


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Steve Seel

On this week’s episode of SymphonyCast, guest host Steve Seel features the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and welcomes back beloved artistic partner Pekka Kuusisto with a varied and colorful program, including vulnerable pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Cindy Cox and Louise Farrenc’s little-known but masterful Symphony No. 3.



St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

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