Composer Interviews

A Tempo Saturday (9/23) featured a conversation with New York Theatre Ballet Artistic Director Steven Melendez and composer David K. Israel about Melendez's "Letters to My Father" series, and about a new documentary following Melendez's path from homeless shelter to professional ballet.

A Tempo this Saturday (8/12 at 7 pm) features an interview with composer and musician, Louis Josephson, who grew up in West Windsor, NJ. His new work, 'Relapse: A New Musical,' will open next month Off-Broadway.

A Tempo this Saturday (7/22 at 7 pm) chats with the participants of this year's New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute.

A Tempo this Saturday (5/27 at 7 pm) features a conversation with Michael Abels about writing and arranging music for the film Chevalier and sharing this year's Pulitzer Prize for Music with Rhiannon Giddens for their opera, Omar.

A Tempo this Saturday (1/21 at 7 pm) features a conversation with composer Victoria Bond, whose new solo violin piece, Sorrow's Springs are the Same, will be premiered Jan. 27 at the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (11/20 at 2 pm) features excerpts from the premiere of Michael Shapiro's Voices, based on Sephardic poetry from the Holocaust, and an interview with the composer.

A Tempo this Saturday (11-12 at 7 pm) features a conversation with composer Michael Gordon and The Crossing Choir conductor Donald Nally about the premiere of Gordon's Travel Guide to Nicaragua, based on his family's journey from Eastern Europe to Latin America to the U.S.

A Tempo this Saturday (11/5 at 7 pm) previews two upcoming performances: the premiere of Michael Shapiro's VOICES, based on Sephardic poetry of the Holocaust, and a concert by the Parlando chamber orchestra that looks at classical music portrayals of women.