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Extra Eclectic - Oct. 26, 2022

Ward Jacobson has enjoyed a radio career spanning over two decades as a morning show host and sportscaster, as well as producer/host of an interview program where he chatted with authors, musicians, politicians and newsmakers. He is also a past winner of the prestigious Marconi Award. Jacobson's love of classical music stems from a childhood influenced by his bass-baritone father and piano-teaching mother. While still a college student in Nebraska, he began singing with the Abendmusik Chorus and took part in concert tours to venues as varied as Englands Lincoln Cathedral, the Vatican, Salzburg Cathedral, Auschwitz and Moscow. When not singing, he works to develop his guitar-strumming repertoire.


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Composer and performer Molly Joyce’s music is primarily concerned with disability as a creative source, stemming from an auto accident that deformed her left hand. Listen to her music and more on this week's episode of Extra Eclectic, with guest host Ward Jacobson.





Extra Eclectic

Molly Joyce finds a new way to compose music 

Extra Eclectic - Oct. 19, 2022

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina's ‘Fairytale Poem’ can be seen as an allegory for life under an oppressive regime and how a child's piece of chalk can be a metaphor for imagination unchained from such constraints. Listen with host Steve Seel as he features it on this week’s episode of Extra Eclectic. 


Chalk has no restraints in Sofia Gubaidulina's ‘Fairytale Poem’ 

Extra Eclectic - Oct. 12, 2022

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's ‘Aeriality’ seems to express both stasis and motion at the same time. The Washington Post called it "a big, spinning planet of a work that contains multitudes." Listen with host Steve Seel as he features it on this week's show.






Anna Thorvaldsdottir portrays the feeling of freedom in 'Aeriality'

Extra Eclectic - Oct.  6, 2022

Joan Tower’s ‘Still/Rapids’ imagines a boat on calming waters that then gets pulled into turbulent waters. Stay afloat this week with host Steve Seel as he features that work on this week's episode of Extra Eclectic, as well as music by Sasha Matson and Toru Takemitsu.

 


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American composer Joan Tower navigates troubled waters in ‘Still/Rapids’

Extra Eclectic - Sept. 28, 2022

Steve Seel is the host of YourClassical’s weekly SymphonyCast and the trailblazing music show Extra Eclectic. He possesses a broad knowledge of many musical genres, having hosted radio programs ranging from classical to jazz and even avant-garde music at radio stations around the country. Steve began his love affair with public radio at 24 working whatever shifts he could at his hometown station of WUSF-FM in Tampa, Florida, and from there worked his way to snowy Buffalo, New York, and its renowned classical station WNED-FM, where he hosted middays and the weekly experimental-music show Present Tense.  In 2005, Steve became one of the founding voices on Minnesota Public Radio's eclectic station, the Current. While there, he hosted afternoons and mornings, and conducted in-depth interviews with pop music luminaries ranging from Brian Eno to David Byrne to Tori Amos. Steve is 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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Latvian composer Peteris Vasks says his work Vox Amoris (Voice of Love) is "about the greatest power in the whole world — love.” Host Steve Seel features that work on this week's episode of Extra Eclectic, as well as music by Missy Mazzoli, Anna Clyne and Ramon Humet.


Latvian composer Vasks' 'Vox Amoris' is all about love

Betsy Jolas’ “bTunes” is about how tech has radically changed music.


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Technology continues to change music

Violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto is heard in two live recordings this week. 


Pekka Kuusisto in concert

Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto is played live at the BBC Proms.


Missy Mazzoli portrays the violin as healer

Theremin virtuoso Carolina Eyck plays Kalevi Aho’s Theremin Concerto at the BBC Proms on the latest episode of Extra Eclectic, hosted by Steve Seel.


Carolina Eyck takes the theremin into the future

Composer Paola Prestini’s ‘G-Force’ uses gravity as a metaphor for the weightiness of “a life well lived.” We hear her work, as well as two exclusive live recordings from the BBC Proms, on this week’s Extra Eclectic, with host Steve Seel.
