Muddle Instead of Music

05/05/2025

Today! Monday May 5 at 10 am join us on Muddle Instead of Music for a chat with the Louisville Orchestra Creator Corps who will have world premiere performances of their work this weekend at the Kentucky Center for the Arts!
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02/12/2024

https://www.uoflnews.com/post/uofltoday/2025-grawemeyer-music-composition-award-goes-to-christian-mason-for-invisible-threads/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1PkjVnLWSr8S_vFjOBhMBgZlF0cVUdlwkqtDvoKtGopF-ao5c_9PivKRk_aem_m62B6IcZVp4ZIfbocSKOkA

For creating "Invisible Threads," a work that changes how music is usually experienced by employing a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encouraging its audience to roam the performance space throughout its 70 minutes, London-based composer Christian Mason will receive the 2025 Grawemey...

05/12/2023

Congratulations, Aleksandra Vrebalov!

You can view all the incredible 2024 nominees here:
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https://grawemeyer-music.library.louisville.edu/

View statistics on the award here:
https://library.louisville.edu/music/grawemeyer/stats

https://www.uoflnews.com/section/arts-and-humanities/nontraditional-choral-work-wins-grawemeyer-music-prize/

Serbian-American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for "Missa Supratext," a nontraditional choral work for string quartet and girls' chorus. Kronos Quartet, a group long known for nurturing musical innovation, and San Francis...

08/09/2023

Muddle Instead of Music - New Episode! The late music of the great Friedrich Cerha.

String quartet no.4 (2001) / (Stadler Quartett) -- Piano trio (2005) / (Osina Trio) -- Bruchstück, getraumt : for ensemble (2009) / (Klangforum Wien ; Sylvain Cambreling) -- Nacht : for orchestra (2012-13) / (SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg ; Emilio Pomárico) -- Kurzzeit : for ensem...

04/09/2023

Muddle Instead of Music - New Episode! Music by Martin Smolka, Samuel Cedillo, John Aylward, Heiner Goebbels, Mikel Urquiza, Bent Sørensen, Rebecca Saunders, Finola Merivale, Mirela Ivičević and Héctor Parra.

Basho. II & Postlude : for soprano and 4 guitars (2012) / Martin Smolka (Daisy Press ; Aleph Guitar Quartet) -- Estudio de fenómeno II : for 4 saxophones (2012) / Samuel Cedillo (Lumina Ensemble) -- Tiergarten : for soprano and double bass (2018) / John Aylward (Departure Duo) -- A house of call. I...

04/09/2023

Muddle Instead of Music - New Episode! Music by Julius Eastman, Stefano GervasoniAndrew McIntosh, Henrik Hellstenius, Malin Bång, Juste Janulyte, Salvatore Sciarrino, Santa Ratniece, Leilehua Lanzilotti and Daphne Oram.

Joy boy (1974) / Julius Eastman (Shelley Washington ; Christopher Roundtree ; Wild Up) -- Nube obbediente (2011) / Stefano Gervasoni (Carrado Colliard ; Elio Marchesini ; Divertimento Ensemble ; Sandro Gorli) -- Little Jimmy. V. Positive negative 3 (2020) / Andrew McIntosh (Yarn/Wire) -- Places of s...

07/08/2023

Monday August 7 at 10am...Composers from Iran...Tune in! A R T x F M

19/06/2023

Muddle Instead of Music - New Episode! Music by George Crumb, Tansy Davies, Jonathan Harvey, Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, Poul Ruders, Peter Eötvös, Valentin Silvestrov, Judith Weir, Brett Dean, Roxanna Panufnik, Judith Bingham and James Macmillan.

A little suite for Christmas / George Crumb (Gilbert Kalish) -- Christmas Eve / Tansy Davies (The Choir of St Catharine's College; Edward Wickham) -- The Angels / Jonathan Harvey (Les Métaboles; Léo Warynski) -- The Fayrfax Carol / Thomas Adès (Polyphony; Stephen Layton) -- String quartet no. 2 '...

10/05/2023

Muddle Instead of Music - New Episode! Music by Per Nørgård, Fausto Romitelli. Toshio Hosokawa, Adriana Hölszky, Julian Anderson, Matthias Pintscher, Thurídur Jónsdóttir, Kaija Saariaho and George Crumb.

Luna : for orchestra (1967) / Per Nørgård (Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Herbert Blomstedt) -- Le lune et les eaux : for 2 guitars (1991) / Fausto Romitelli (Elena Casoli ; Virginia Arancio) -- Cloudscapes-Moon night : for sho and accordion (1998) / Toshio Hosokawa (Mayumi Miyata ; St...

29/04/2023

Muddle Instead of Music - New Episode! Music by Ned Rorem, Liza Lim, Julian Anderson, Sofia Gubaidulina, Charlotte Bray, David Lang, Mauro Lanza and Giya Kancheli.

Sun. No. 1-4 : for soprano and orchestra (1966) / Ned Rorem (Lauren Flanigan ; Manhattan School Of Music Symphony ; Glen Barton Cortese) -- The green lion eats the sun : for double-bell euphonium (2014) / Liza Lim (Melvyn Poore) -- The stations of the sun : for orchestra (1998) / Julian Anderson (BB...

11/04/2023

Muddle Instead of Music - New Episode! Music by the 2022 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition: Olga Neuwirth mixcloud.com/muddleinsteadofmusic/november-21-2022-olga-neuwirth-grawemeyer-award-winners/ #

In Nacht und Eis : for bassoon, cello and electronics (2006) / (Pascal Gallois ; Rohan de Saram) -- Masaot/Clocks without clouds : for orchestra (2013) / (Wiener Philharmoniker ; Daniel Harding) -- Trurl-tichy-tinkle : for piano (2016) / (Fidan Aghayeva-Edler) -- Aello : for flute and chamber orches...

14/03/2023

Muddle Instead of Music - New Episode! Music by Andrea Tarrodi, Dai Fujikura, Olga Rayeva, Bent Sørensen, Katherine Balch, Peter Ruzicka and Einer Torfi Einersson.

Tarot garden : for ensemble (2020) / Andrea Tarrodi (Nordic Chamber Ensemble) -- Aquarius (String quartet no. 3) (2020) / Dai Fujikura (Quartet Amabile) -- 3 Klavierstücke : for piano (2019) / Olga Rayeva (Fidan Aghayeva-Edler) -- L'isola della città : for piano trio and orchestra (2014-15) / Bent...