SoundNotion

This week on SoundNotion, Melissa Snoza and Crystal Hall of Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble join the panel. We talk artist-educators, narrative performances, a half million bucks for chamber groups and the greatest Def Leppard cover band ever. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Crystal Hall, and Melissa Snoza

This week on SoundNotion the panel discusses the bump and grind of Thomas Tallis (50 shades of cash), Glass on the street in Time Square, band camp for grown-ups and the Alarm Will Sound/social media/John Cage three headed love child. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, and David MacDonald

This week on SoundNotion, orchestra consultant, tech savvy arts entrepreneur and #FoTS Drew McManus joins the panel with GOOD NEWS IN THE ORCHESTRA BUSINESS, classical music’s romance with Twitter, Alec Baldwin’s $1,000,000 donation and much more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, David MacDonald, and Tansy Davies.

Composer/educator Augusta Read Thomas joins the panel to discuss her upcoming premieres, the composer’s took box, Schoenberg’s legacy, the St. Louis Symphony, and her obsession with metal! This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, David MacDonald, and Augusta Read Thomas.

This week, pianist Jeremy Denk joins the panel to give us some insight into Ligeti’s piano études, we dissect Emily White’s blog post on NPR’s All Songs Considered, we discuss the rules in the new media-old media war, and much more! This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, Tim Rosenberg, David MacDonald, and Jeremy Denk.

ETHEL violist Ralph Farris joins the panel to discuss the group’s most recent album HEAVY. Plus - Improvising against the Canon fire, Wagner’s Tel Aviv gig gets cancelled, the Pittsburgh Symphony’s YouTube concerto competition - EPIC FAIL and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Ralph Farris.

This week on SoundNotion the panel is joined by composer-educator-business mogul-cultural ambassador Anthony De Ritis. He brings his concerto for DJ and orchestra and some opinions on the week’s news. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald and Anthony De Ritis.

This week on SoundNotion we rock out to Sondheim, Anthony de Mare, and Ethan Iverson with Skype on audio effects. ALSO - The DSO is forgiven, Wagner is programed in Israel, John Adams and Milo Poniewozik get big premieres and we say goodbye to Doc Watson. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton and Anthony de Mare.

Composer, songwriter, performer Corey Dargel joins the panel. He will join classical and pop, bringing balance to the force. Also, Peter Gelb “pulls a Gelb”, another death in disco, premiere some Glass at Time Square and an indeterminate NewMusicBox blog. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton and Corey Dargel.

This week, the panel discusses Kid Rock and the DSO, the idea of open notation, opera budgets, a couple recent deaths, fraudulent Strads, and much more! This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton and Patrick Gullo.

On SN 68, David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly of Contemporaneous join the panel to talk opera on the silver screen, composer tantrums about opera, orchestral flash mobs, loud and proud Tchaikovsky by Hahn-Bin and the passing of beloved author Maurice Sendak. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly.

Jeff Loeffert and Jonathan Nichol of the h2 Quartet join the panel to discuss their new album Groove Machine and discuss Apple’s classical music offerings, a retracted blog post on WQXR’s website, Joshua Bell on Dancing with the Stars, and more! This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Jeff Loeffert, and Jonathan Nichol.

This week Douglas Boyce of counter)induction joins the panel. We take on music myths, creative programing, conflict in performance, Make Music, Occupy Guitarmy (yes Guitarmy), settlement in Louisville? NEWS FLASH: MUSIC + CHILDREN = EMPATHY. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Ty Forquer and Douglas Boyce.

Rob Deemer and Charith Premawardhana join the panel to discuss anthologizing composers, the Tokyo String Quartet’s official goodbye, the music initiative Classical Revolution, Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize win, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, Rob Deemer and Charith Premawardhana.

This week with guest composer Ricardo Lorenz-Labor issues with orchestraZZZZZZZZzzzzz, adding Secretary of Culture to 25th Amendment, arena opera, 8 new(York) pieces from Ethel PLUS Sondheim and SoundCloud. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Ricardo Lorenz.