Where classical music is always arriving, with host Steve Seel. Listen live at 10 p.m. Central every Monday on 

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Where classical music is always arriving, with host Steve Seel. Listen live at 10 p.m. Central every Monday on YourClassical Radio.


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Steve Seel is the morning host on YourClassical from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on weekdays, and host of YourClassical’s weekly SymphonyCast. Until the fall of 2026, he was also host of 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 Seel

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


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Extra Eclectic

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.


Paola Prestini finds her center of gravity

We begin our sampling of performances from the 2022 BBC Proms.


The Proms gets eclectic

Jennifer Higdon wrote her Violin Concerto for violinist Hilary Hahn.


Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto

Timo Andres: in the moment

Composer Timo Andres is inspired by music from Brahms to Radiohead.


Music for star gazing

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope provide this week’s inspiration. 


Brian Eno's "Deconstructed" Pachelbel

Brian Eno turns Pachelbel’s ‘Canon’ into conceptual art on this week’s episode of Extra Eclectic, with host Steve Seel.
