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Joel Fan LIVE on WQXR
Joel Fan joined the WQXR “Midday Masterpieces” program for a live performance and to discuss his new Open Source Music Festival: “Open Source is the simple idea that we share our creative work, and allow others to build upon it freely. We’ve built our whole music festival around this idea.” Joel Fan, Artistic Director, Open Source Music Festival More on the Open Source Music Festival Joel Fan on Reference Recordings:
New RR Recordings featured in Symphomania!
WQXR’s Q2 Music is celebrating their second-annual Symphomania this Sunday (April 24, 2016) — and included in the event will be our new recording of John Mackey’s Wine Dark Sea featuring Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble as well as Andrew Norman’s Switch and Augusta Read Thomas’ EOS from the Utah Symphony’s new Dawn To Dust recording! Join Q2 Music on Sunday, April 24 (with an encore presentation Tuesday, April 26) for…
WQXR Reviews Dances for Piano and Orchestra
WQXR reviews the new Joel Fan and Northwest Sinfonietta Dances for Piano and Orchestra release and named it one of last week’s albums of the week! “American pianist Joel Fan is a veteran of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project whose tastes extent well beyond the standard repertoire. He has made several enjoyably eclectic recordings for San Francisco’s Reference Recordings label, the latest featuring an almost-forgotten genre, the single-movement dance piece for piano and orchestra. Hearing…
WQXR features Delibes: Sylvia and Coppelia
The newest RR release Delibes: Sylvia & Coppelia featuring the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra was featured as the WQXR “Album of the Week.” From Sunday, April 29 through the first week of May, WQXR featured Sylvia & Coppelia as a part of their weekly spotlight on compelling new recordings. From WQXR: “We at WQXR don’t encounter too many recordings by ballet orchestras…The oldest professional ballet company in America, [San Francisco Ballet] is also one of…