From Bach to Bali
Yourchat with Vivian Fung and Ray Lustig begins Monday at 4 pm. Sign up for a reminder now!This week on The New Canon, we explore how music forms time and space with composers Ray Lustig and Vivian...
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Out of Somewhere
This week on the New Canon, we take an in-depth look at new recordings from Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vivian Fung,and Philip Glass. It’s Glass’s The Passion of Ramakrishnathat’s our current Album of the Week...
View ArticleIndonesian Inspiration
This New Sounds brings music by Canadian composer Vivian Fung inspired Indonesian gamelan, along with other works by westerners that look to that archipelago’s music. Fung, on her record,...
View ArticleIndonesian Inspiration
This New Sounds brings music by Canadian composer Vivian Fung inspired Indonesian gamelan, along with other works by westerners that look to that archipelago’s music. Fung, on her record,...
View ArticleUnder the Influence
Even though folk music has inspired composers throughout history, none of them took the study of indigenous music more seriously than Béla Bartók. Widely regarded as the first ethnomusicologist, Bartók...
View ArticleIndonesian Inspiration
This New Sounds brings music by Canadian composer Vivian Fung inspired Indonesian gamelan, along with other works by westerners that look to that archipelago’s music. Fung, on her record,...
View ArticleVivian Fung - Harp Concerto
Simply put, the vast majority of classical music performance features the work of dead composers. Performers don't have the chance to ask a work's creator for advice; can't inquire about phrasing,...
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