Celebrating history and heritage
Our celebration of Black History Month continues on this week’s episode of Extra Eclectic, hosted by Steve Seel, with a collection of Black composers paying tribute to musicians and performers who have inspired them.
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Extra Eclectic
Where classical music is always arriving, with host Steve Seel. Listen live at 10 p.m. central every Wednesday on YourClassical Radio.
Extra Eclectic - Feb. 22
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Where classical meets jazz
This week on Extra Eclectic, host Steve Seel continues his celebration of Black History Month. We will hear works from composer Billy Childs, saxophonist/composer Steven Banks, band leader Ed Bland, vocalist and flutist Nathalie Joachim and more.
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Answering Tragedy With Music
Many composers of our time have answered the tragedies and atrocities brought upon African Americans throughout history with compositions that serve as musical responses. This week on Extra Eclectic, host Steve Seel features some of them.
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Black Resistance
This week’s Extra Eclectic falls on the first day of Black History Month. Host Steve Seel features a survey of contemporary Black composers whose music speaks to the Black American experience in many ways — from George Walker to Jessie Montgomery, Jonathan Baily Holland to Quinn Mason, and many more.
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Multifaceted Bryce Dessner composes a work for the Labeque sisters
This week on Extra Eclectic, host Steve Seel introduces the multitalented Bryce Dessner, who is the lead guitarist in the critically acclaimed band the National and a composer. Listen with Seel as he plays Dessner's ‘Concerto for Two Pianos,’ written for the sister duo of Katia and Marielle Labeque.
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A midweek classical meditation
Classical music truly has become a global village in the 20th and 21st centuries. This week on Extra Eclectic, host Steve Seel transports us to Asia in the first hour of the program. In the second hour, it's a tapestry of musical dreams, from John Cage, Ellen Reid, "Blue" Gene Tyranny and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
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In solidarity with classical women
Steve Seel offers solidarity with the women composers of the 21st century on this edition of Extra Eclectic, including works by Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, Jennifer Higdon, Missy Mazzoli and more. Listen now!
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Setting the tone
What's the best way to begin a new year, musically? On an "up" note, of course. This week on Extra Eclectic, Steve Seel shares a variety of upbeat and positive pieces for his first program of 2023.
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A 2022 year in review
2022 was an excellent year for new classical music. On this week's Extra Eclectic, host Steve Seel brings us a "highly subjective and thoroughly incomplete" sampling of some terrific releases.
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A winter's solstice
Steve Seel presents his annual winter solstice program, with modern classical sounds for the longest night of the year, chosen especially to compliment the chilly, starry nights of the season. It's music that explores stillness and contemplation on this episode of Extra Eclectic.
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About Extra Eclectic
Where classical music is always arriving, with host Steve Seel. Listen live at 10 p.m. central every Wednesday on YourClassical Radio.