SoundNotion

This week the panel is joined by FoTS Meerenai Shim to discuss her upcoming premieres, the NEA/Kickstarter deathmatch, entrepreneurial musicians, orchestral shenanigans in Louisville, retro-electronica and the passing of the “King of Loud” Jim Marshall. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Meerenai Shim.

The panel takes on arts funding in Europe, checks out the new Spotify app “Classify”, discusses David Smooke’s thoughts on the Genius Myth, and more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, and Timothy Rosenberg.

This week #FoTS Daniel Felsenfeld joins the panel to parse composition contests, blogging contests, a new kind of concert hall and the concert works of Sir Anthony Hopkins (good with fava beans and a nice Chianti). This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Daniel Felsenfeld.

This week FoTS Matt Schoendorff joins the panel to discuss sound masses, the most interesting Polish man in the world, big female lists, quiting trombones, Greenwood, helicopters in opera and not crying over spilled cello. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and Matt Schoendorff.

Composer James Holt joins the panel to discuss jerks, doppelgangers, pie charts, composer as critic, poetry as analysis, sqwonkification, Osvaldo Golijov and more. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Nate Bliton, and James Holt.

London based performer and composer Kerry Andrew joins the panel to discuss the weeks music news and how to get more women composing. We find the answer painfully obvious. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton, and Kerry Andrew.

eighth blackbird’s Lisa Kaplan joins the panel to discuss the group’s recent Grammy win, the Golijov-Bergeman “scandal”, out-of-this-world Kickstarter patronage, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, and Lisa Kaplan.

Judd Greenstein joins the panel to talk about the Ecstatic Music Festival, the mission of New Amsterdam Records, taking instruments on airplanes, tuba theft, and much more! This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, and Judd Greenstein.

This week on SoundNotion De Profundis goes low, the Sphinx Organization celebrates 15 years, Justin Davidson makes the longest mix tape, the Grammys take heat for disenfrancategorizesing™ musicians, the Library of Congress and “instrumental competition.” This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Patrick Gullo.

This week the panel is joined by #FoTS Ty Forquer. We discuss the Grammys (GO YORK BOWEN!), Oliveros’ Cage Award, the classical cred of Radiohead vs Reich, the salvation of classical music (ASIANS!) and Sam gets buyers remorse over Glass Symphony No. 9. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, Patrick Gullo, and Ty Forquer.

This week on SoundNotion the Greenwood/Penderecki duo drop some new sounds, Alex Ross gets his own festival, the panels parses some Smooke Schtick, Opera Carolina is giving it away for free and Kyle Gann considers “quasi-objectivity” in music. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Patrick Gullo.

This week on SoundNotion Brahms get his big break on BBC Radio 3, SOPA and PIPA (¿sopaipilla?), Norman Lebrecht enters the Snark-o-sphere, NPR Field Recordings occupy your local Lowes and FoTS Rob Deemer considers #composerspace. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Sam Merciers.

This week on SN a new work by Brahms (yes, that Brahms), Mahler adds some marimba (thanks to Patron X), Frank J. Oteri want to know if size matters, a Stradivarius double blind test and we reach to the past for this week’s pick of the week. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Patrick Gullo.

SoundNotion kicks off the new year with the Queen of Soul’s search for new opera talent, musical happenings, the Oregon Symphony saves some cash, Opera Boston’s sudden crash, the New York Phil’s “newish” music series, and Bang on a Can’s 25th birthday. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Sam Merciers, and Geoffrey Deibel.

While we take a couple of weeks to spend time with family and friends, enjoy some of the best moments from across all of our shows this year: SoundNotion, Music is Hard, and Streamers and Punches. See you in 2012!