New Music

A Tempo this Saturday (1/11 at 7 pm) goes inside the VR performance by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra being presented this weekend by Princeton University Concerts. It also includes an excerpt of host Rachel Katz's conversation with a Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate who wrote the funeral hymn performed at Former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.

A Tempo Saturday (12/14 at 7 pm) concludes its survey of holiday programming this season with The Crossing’s upcoming performance of David Lang’s Poor Hymnal.

A Tempo takes a look at the NY Philharmonic’s Afromodernism series, which includes a concert featuring a cello concerto by flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim exploring themes of African fashion.

A Tempo looks at an upcoming concert of music the African diaspora by the International Contemporary Ensemble, part of the New York Philharmonic’s series ‘Afromodernism.”

Composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. chats with A Tempo host Rachel Katz about his call for submissions for a commission from the American Composers Orchestra.

A Tempo checks in with composer and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull about an upcoming album release with the quartet ETHEL and her work with the Cleveland Orchestra and New Jersey Symphony.

This program includes the works by participants in the New Jersey Symphony's Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. Listen Monday (9/10) at 8 pm.

A Tempo features a conversation with composer Missy Mazzoli Saturday (9/7) about her new opera, The Listeners, which will kick off Opera Philadelphia's new season.

A Tempo this week (9/7) features a conversation with composer Ellen Reid, whose new album brings together the themes and sounds of works she wrote to accompany visitors as they wandered through various parks.

A Tempo this Saturday (7/27 at 7 pm) features a roundtable conversation with the four composers participating this year in the New Jersey Symphony's Edward T. Cone Composition Institute.