Topic Of The Day: A Radio Program Dedicated To Contemporary Classical

This is my side project for third year university, I plan to host a radio program that focuses on contemporary classical music. I want to draw attention to music that happens in town(Vancouver BC) but I will probably branch out across Canada and into the states as well as I feel a lot of good music comes out of that war-mongering cesspool I love to make fun of.

My question to all of YOU obsessive dot plotters is.....

If such a radio program existed, what would you like to see?

I plan to not offer criticism as I feel I would be very biased in favour of the stuff I could wax poetic on. I want to simply play the music(which I will bootleg with a minidisc recorder) and interview the composer to figure out what the HELL they are trying to do with these wierd golf clubs things jumping over fences. Opinions will be left strictly to the listener.

Any thoughts?

So it's only stuff written by people from there and here, for interview purposes?

I was going to say that I love to hear Evelyn Glennie, but she's from yonder. She's not like, brand new, but she's cool, and she's deaf (which always impresses me...I'd be sad if I couldn't hear, even if I could compose anyway)

I'll have to think about this one!

I'll get back to you.

Yeah.... there is absolutely NO promotional machine for contemporary classical where I'm from so I think I would like to be "it".

So it's only stuff written by people from there and here, for interview purposes?

I was going to say that I love to hear Evelyn Glennie, but she's from yonder. She's not like, brand new, but she's cool, and she's deaf (which always impresses me...I'd be sad if I couldn't hear, even if I could compose anyway)

I'll have to think about this one!

I'll get back to you.

Evelyn Glennie is amazing. She was a soloist in a concert I played in this season just gone, where she played not just percussion, but also Highland Pipes in Peter Maxwell Davies' An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise.

Also in the concert was:

Ottavino Concerto, Vivaldi, arr. Vibraphone and strings

Konzertstuck for Snare Drum and Orchestra, Askell Masson

What a fantastic concert to play in.

You could always play Glass' concerto for two timpanists, with Evelyn Glennie as one of the soloists...

Evelyn is a performer though, I'm more interested in the composers.

ooh, my bad I initially missed something that you wrote way back.

I figured it out later but never corrected myself.

Although actually, she did a little composing - I think something for Mazda, hahaha! She has written some stuff for solo marima, too.