Why Erik Satie Is Still New Music

This week on Q2 Music, host Phil Kline celebrates what would have been the 150th birthday of the playful and provocative French composer Erik Satie.  May 16, 2016

Hearing Messiaen for the First Time and Six Illuminating Videos

Many of us have moments in our lives when we hear music that changes us. I vividly recall turning on the radio to listen to my local classical station when I was about 14. Mar 21, 2016

Edgard Varèse: Another Cutting-Edge Composer Over 130

Every now and then it occurs to me: Edgard Varèse! Such explosive sounds, like forces of nature, with as much visionary energy as ever existed in one composer... and hair to match! Feb 11, 2016

Happy Birthday, Olivier Messiaen

Some composers take you into another world, far removed but instantly recognizable. Today at 11, Phil Kline celebrates the birthday of one such composer: Olivier Messiaen. Dec 10, 2015

A Far-off Country Which is Everywhere

Today at 11 am on Q2 Music, Phil Kline is joined by Armenian-American composer Eve Beglarian traditional and contemporary Armenian music. May 1, 2015

His Name Is Ives: 24-Hour Celebration of the Wild, Transcendent Music of Charles Ives

Join Q2 Music all day on Friday, October 24 to celebrate the 140th birthday of Charles Ives - pioneering, maverick composer and grandfather of the American classical music sound.  Oct 20, 2014

Phil Kline Spotlights Scandinavian Symphonist Per Nørgård

While the music of  Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg and Esa-Pekka Salonen has become quite familiar to American audiences in recent years, that of their important predecessor Per Nørg... Jul 21, 2014

Gavin Bryars's Coolly Passionate, Accessible Avant-gardism

Gavin Bryars is one of the great polystylists of our time. His works could be by turns described as minimal, experimental, neoclassical, neoromantic, historicist or even jazz. Listen ... Jul 14, 2014

Danish Composer Per Nørgård Wins $200,000 Prize from New York Philharmonic

Composer Per Nørgård has received a hefty prize from the New York Philharmonic: a $200,000 cash award, a commission to compose a new work for the orchestra.

Jun 12, 2014

A is for Awesome, All-encompassing, Andriessen

Louis Andriessen has exerted a vital influence on American music over in the last few decades. Of course he’s Dutch and has stayed close to home most of his career, but the strength o... Apr 7, 2014