Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Greetings!
After leaving the airwaves and live broadcasting upon the advent of the pandemic, "Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" returns to the airwaves of WHUS, now in pre-recorded form, following a move from Connecticut to Maryland. It airs in it's same time-slot, Saturdays from 11am to 1pm EST, should you want to hear it fresh off the presses, or you can check it out at your leisure, here.
To get in touch, here's the new email: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com
Enjoy!
Joel 
Playlist for "Pushing the Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center" 2/26/22
Crimson Jig - City Weezle - No. 2 - self-release (2020)
https://cityweezle.bandcamp.com
 
Protuberanzen Nos. 2 & 3 - TRIONYS - Earsay Music (2021)
https://earsay.com/
 
Bell Illuminations - piano: Daniel Pesca / composer: Augusta Read Thomas - Promontory - Neuma Records (2021)
www.NeumaRecords.org
 
31 Breaths - Douglas Schmidt - Isolation Journal 4 - Friends - John Oliver Music (2021)
https://johnolivermusic.com/
 
31 Clouds - John Oliver & Douglas Schmidt - Isolation Journal 4 - John Oliver Music (2021)
https://johnolivermusic.com/
 
Citrus, My Love (Scenes 1-8) - accordian/composer: Guy Klucevsek w/ The Bantam Orchestra - Citrus, My Love -Starkland (2021/1995)
https://www.starkland.com/
 
Hammers - percussion ensemble: RECAP / flute: Tiahna Sterling / composer: Allison Loggins-Hull - Count To Five - Innova (2021)
https://www.innova.mu/albums/recap/count-five
 
Type Writer - Flutronix (Nathalie Joachim / Allison Loggins-Hull) - Flutronix 2.0 - Flutronix Records (2014)
https://www.flutronix.com/
 
Donershtik - Amanda Chaudhary - Meow Meow Band - self-release (2021)
https://amandachaudhary.bandcamp.com/album/meow-meow-band
 
Preview - Grant Calvin Weston - Dance Romance - In & Out Records (1988)
https://gcalvinweston1.bandcamp.com/
 
Offering (Parts I-IV) -  composer: Douglas J. Cuomo /feat. Nels Cline and the Aizuri Quartet - Seven Limbs - Sunnyside Records (2021)
https://www.sunnysiderecords.com/site/release_detail?id=1084
 
House of Return - The Jeff Gauthier Goatette - Cryptogramophone (2008)
https://cryptogramophone.com/ 

Greetings!
PTE's radio presence continues for it's 28th year, airing on Saturday mornings from 10am – 1pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you a new series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty.
Enjoy!
Joel
 
 
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!  
The concerts will take place from June 15-19 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
 
http://xelanaduo.com/
 
Xelana Duo balances the refinement of classical music while zigzagging through hip-hop, blues, flamenco, bollywood, and rock n' roll. The Duo surprises you with an unexpected instrumentation filled with vibrant shades, that are each dazzling on their own, but simply breathtaking when joined together. Daring these two instruments to have a conversation, Xelana Duo commissions electrifying works, creating an ice-breaker for this unusual collaboration of bassoon and saxophone.
Ana and Alex return to Connecticut Summerfest for a second year as one of three ensembles-in-residence.   During our talk, they catch us up on what has developed since last year's Summerfest and their future plans.
Enjoy!
 
 

Greetings!
Welcome to the return of the Pushing The Envelope Podcast!  PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you the fourth in a series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty. Today's podcast features an interview with CT Summerfest ensemble-in-residence, Apple Orange Pair.
Don't forget, PTE's radio presence continues for it's 27th year, airing on Saturdays from 11am to 2pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
  
Enjoy!
Joel
 
 
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!  
The concerts will take place from June 16-20 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
 
Apple Orange Pair (Emily Boyer, horn, and Colleen Potter Thorburn, harp) is a duo committed to engaging audiences through a growing repertoire for this unexpected pairing. Since its founding in Connecticut in 2010, the duo has premiered fourteen new works by emerging composers. Five of these new works are featured on their debut album, “Seeds,” released in 2013. Apple Orange Pair regularly serves as an ensemble-in-residence at new music festivals and universities, where they present workshops on contemporary composition for their instruments and bring to life new works by student and faculty composers.
They have performed as ensemble-in-residence at Connecticut Summerfest at Hartt School of Music in Hartford, where they are returning for a second season this June, and are serving as ensemble-in-residence for Central Connecticut State University’s music department for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Apple Orange Pair has been honored as the recipient of commissioning grants from the American Harp Society and the Yale School of Music’s alumniVentures program. They have also participated in several chamber music residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire.
For further information, please visit http://www.appleorangepair.com

Greetings!
Welcome to the return of the Pushing The Envelope Podcast!  PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you the third in a series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty. Today's podcast features an interview with CT Summerfest composer faculty member, Gilda Lyons.
Don't forget, PTE's radio presence continues for it's 27th year, airing on Saturdays from 11am to 2pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
  
Enjoy!
Joel
 
 
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!  
The concerts will take place from June 16-20 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
 
 
GILDA LYONS, composer, vocalist, and visual artist, combines elements of renaissance, neo-baroque, spectral, folk, agitprop Music Theater, and extended vocalism to create works of uncompromising emotional honesty and melodic beauty. An active vocalist and fierce advocate of contemporary music, Dr. Lyons has commissioned, premiered, and workshopped new vocal works by dozens of composers.
She received her Ph.D. in Music Composition from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Bard College. Dr. Lyons made her professional debut as composer and vocalist with the American Symphony Chamber Orchestra in 1997, performing the world premiere of her orchestral song cycle "Feis." 
As composer, current recording projects include the release of Lyons’ work by Quince and Entelechron in the upcoming season. Lyons’ vocal collaboration with Laura Ward will be released on Lyric Fest’s all-Hagen CD. Sing for Hope featured Lyons' Hold On on their most recent release, An AIDS Quilt Songbook. Lindsey Goodman's tour de force performance of Lyons' Chrysalis was released on Goodman's debut CD, reach through the sky. As composer and vocalist her works and performances are available on the Clarion, GPR Records, Naxos, New Dynamic Records, and Roven Records labels.
Dr. Lyons serves on the Board of Advisors of Composers Now and teaches composition at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. In addition, she is Artistic and Executive Director of The Phoenix Concerts, New York's "intrepid" and "plucky Upper West Side new-music series" (The New Yorker). Their mission is to offer excellent contemporary concert music of a broad stylistic range, commission new works by emerging and established composers and to remain committed to the inclusive nature of musical performance.
For further information, please visit  www.gildalyons.com.

Greetings!
Welcome to the return of the Pushing The Envelope Podcast!  PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you the second in a series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty.
Don't forget, PTE's radio presence continues for it's 27th year, airing on Saturday mornings from 10am – 1pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
 
Enjoy!
Joel
 
 
 
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!  
The concerts will take place from June 16-20 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
 
 
Ken Steen is a composer, sound artist and educator living in Glastonbury, CT. His music sits squarely on the frontier between the acoustic and electronic domains of musical expression; often combining traditional orchestra, chamber ensemble or soloist with electronic instruments or processed sound and noise.  He is currently Professor of Composition and Theory, director of Studio D at the Hartt School, University of Hartford and member of the 2017 CT Summerfest composition faculty.
In addition to composing concert music in many forms, Steen has composed a wide variety of works both acoustic and electronic for sound installation, dance, theater and web-distribution. His music and soundworks have been featured on concert and radio programs throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Australia, Cuba and Japan among others.
Steen's music can be found on the Capstone, Vienna Modern Masters, Auralit and CRI CD labels, as well as at www.kensteen.com, and is published by University of Arizona Publications, Harrock Hall Music as well as American Composers Edition.  

Greetings!
 
As the phoenix rises from the ashes, so returns the Pushing The Envelope Podcast!  PTE's radio presence continues for it's 27yh year, airing on Saturday mornings from 10am – 1pm EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live).
PTE and CT Summerfest are pleased to bring you the first in a series of interviews with the CT Summerfest ensembles-in residence and composer faculty.
Enjoy!
Joel
 
 
 
CT SUMMERFEST is a weeklong contemporary music festival for the education and career advancement of emerging composers and performers. The festival is comprised of seminars, lessons, rehearsals, and recording sessions for participants, as well as a free concert series open to the public, featuring ensembles-in-residence and new works by participant composers!  
The concerts will take place from June 16-20 at The Hartt School's Berkman Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT.
All of Connecticut Summerfest's concerts are free to attend and open to the public. No advanced ticket reservation is required, and live streams are available!
 
https://youtu.be/JrzF8r9vrxE
 
Xelana Duo balances the refinement of classical music while zigzagging through hip-hop, blues, flamenco, bollywood, and rock n' roll. The Duo surprises you with an unexpected instrumentation filled with vibrant shades, that are each dazzling on their own, but simply breathtaking when joined together. Daring these two instruments to have a conversation, Xelana Duo commissions electrifying works, creating an ice-breaker for this unusual collaboration of bassoon and saxophone.
Get to know Ana García Caraballos and Alex Davis, the artists behind Xelana Duo!
 

Greetings!Hi....remember Pushing The Envelope?  The radio program version on WHUS / Storrs, CT (http://www.whus.org/listen-live) has continued on, but the rigors of graduate school put the brakes on the podcast. That period of my life has ended and so the return of the podcast.  Any questions, let me know.Best wishes,Joel2-1-2014 PTE Playlist
Landler Land      composer:
Daniel Goode      Annbling   New
World Records (2014)

Greetings!  Remember me?
While “Pushing The Envelope” has continued with its radio presence, airing on Saturday mornings from 10 – Noon EST on WHUS / Storrs, CT (tune in: http://www.whus.org/listen-live ).  The podcast, on the other hand, has had to take a back seat to grad school.  That being said, it’s not every day we have the opportunity celebrate John Cage’s 100th birthday.
Enjoy!
Joel
Episode 16: John Cage 100th Birthday PTE Podcast (9-8-12)

Dream / A Room         composer: John Cage / piano: Bruce Brubaker           Glass Cage Arabesque Recordings (2000)


The Seasons    composer: John Cage / American Composers Orchestra, cond. Dennis Russell Davies            The Seasons    ECM New Series (2000)


Five / Songbooks        Singer Pur       Electric Seraphim       KuK (1998)


4'33" - live radio performance            composer: John Cage


Suite for Toy Piano     composer: John Cage / toy piano: Stephen Drury                 In A Landscape       Catalyst (1994)


Williams Mix (1952)  John Cage        OHM: the early gurus of electronic music Ellipsis Arts (1999)


Six (1991)       composer: John Cage / percussion: Glenn Freeman    Three2 / Twenty-Three / Six / Twenty-Six         Ogre Ogress (1999) http://ogreogress.com/


One6 A (1990)            composer: John Cage / violin: Christina Fong       ONEviolin            Ogre Ogress (1998) http://ogreogress.com/


In A Landscape           composer: John Cage / piano: Margaret Leng Tan Musicworks #52      Musicworks (1992)   http://www.musicworks.ca/


Sonatas I - IV for prepared piano        composer: John Cage / prepared piano: Boris Berman            Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano      Naxos (1999) http://www.naxos.com

Greetings!
Yes, it's been a while.  I just finished my first semester of grad school this morning and this is the first nano-second I've had to devote some time to getting a new podcast up here.  Thanks to all the new listeners and subscribers who've arrived in my absence and also to those folks who've been so patient in waiting for the arrival of Episode 15.
I am particularly fond of this show since it's got a bunch of things that are my favorites.  Let me know what you think.
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a Happy & Healthy New Year!
Joel
Episode 15: Pushing The Envelope Podcast
Dead Elvis - composer: Michael Dauhgerty / bassoon: Charles Ullery - London Sinfonietta cond. David Zinman - American Icons - Argo (1998)
http://www.michaeldaugherty.net/
Matchmaker - composer: Jerry Bock (R.I.P.) / The Residents - Knitting On The Roof - Knitting Factory Records
http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/00_03/wet_ink/music_im/085_knitting_on_the_roof.shtml
Scenes From The Electric Circus -Djam Karet - Reflections from the Firepool - HC Prod. (1989)
http://www.djamkaret.com/disc-rftp.php
Duck Blind - Paul Dresher Ensemble - Slow Fire - Minmax (1993)
http://www.dresherensemble.org/
Frog A le Peche - Charles Carpenter - Frog A Le Peche - Caterwaul (1994)
http://www.charlescarpenter.net/index.html
Hyperballad - Travis Sullivan's Bjokestra - Enjoy! - KOCH (2008)
http://www.bjorkestra.com
Sabbath Prayer - Uri Cane - Knitting On The Roof - Knitting Factory Records
http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/00_03/wet_ink/music_im/085_knitting_on_the_roof.shtml
She Said - T  - Naive - Galileo Records (2002)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4855
Anchor - Lonely Universe - A La Plage - Rant (1993)
http://www.nette.ca/rantjazz/biolu.htm
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (OST) -Milan (1994)
http://www.sitesakamoto.com/
Fugue for Sam (1989) - Michael Horwood - Motility - Furiant Records (2000)
http://www.horwoodcomposer.com/
The Fog Of War - Philip Glass - The Fog of War (OST) - Orange Mountain Music (2003)
http://www.philipglass.com/
From the North - Philharmonie - Nord - Cuneiform Records (1994)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5214
Stub - composer: Gram Fitkin / Dleta Saxophone Quartet - Facing Death - FMR Records (2002)
http://www.fitkin.com/
Ground Zero -Tom Heasley - Where the Earth Meets the Sky - Hypnos (2001)
http://tomheasley.com/

Greetings!
So, now we're a baker's dozen episodes in and there's 283 of you fine folks on board worldwide as subscribers.  Again, many thanks!   I hope you're enjoying the programs and should you have any suggestions or comments as to what you're hearing or what you'd like to hear, please feel free to get in touch.
Until next time,
Take care.
Joel
Now Playing: Messenger of the Sun - Cyrille Verdeaux
http://www.clearlight888music.com/catalog.htm
Episode 13 PTE Playlist
Inverting The Sphere - Eric Glick Rieman - Trilogy From The Outside - self-release (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/ericglickrieman
Aime Moie - Etans Donnes - Bleu - STAALPLAAT (1993)
http://etant-donnes.com
Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum - composer: Harrison Birtwistle / ensemble: Alarm Will Sound - A/rhythmia - Nonesuch (2009)
http://www.alarmwillsound.com/recordings.html
Porcelain - Demians - Mute - InsideOut Music (2010)
http://www.myspace.com/demiansmusic
Fractured Bronze - Marc Barreca - Subterranean - Palace of Lights (2010)
http://www.palaceoflights.com
Abandoned Mines - Barry Cleveland - Hologramatron - Moonjune Records (2010)
http://www.barrycleveland.com/
Le Provence - 7 for 4 - Contact Streetlife Studios (2001)
http://www.7for4.de
broken aphorism_15 [-=]  - Anti-Social Music - Fracture: The Music of Pat Muchmore Innova (2010)
http://www.patmuchmore.com/FractureCD.html
Journey Stars Beyond - Sun Ra And His Omniverse Jet-set Arkestra - Detroit Jazz Center 1980 Art Yard (2010)
http://www.reusa.com
Aviation - Elephant9 - Walk The Nile - Rune Gramofon (2010)
http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/elephant9/rcd-2095-elephant9_-walk-the-nile
Heyday - Kombinat M - Hybrid Beat - Cuneiform Records (1993)
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2598
Material Real - Allan Holdsworth - Road Games - Warner Bros. (1983)
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5287
Plasmodium Falciparum - Local 7  - Substrat - Musea (2002)
http://www.dprp.net/reviews/0211.htm
In The Darkness - Steven Schoenberg - Live: An Improvisational Journey - JKN (2010)
http://www.stevenschoenberg.com/