New music for violin and percussion comes to the Northwest as we preview Emerald City Music’s premiere of works by Vivian Fung, Gabriella Smith and Joan Tower, with a Lou Harrison cameo illustrating the origins of that ensemble type. Conrad Tao helps us preview his own appearance at Seattle Symphony’s “In Recital” series with works by Ravel and David Fulmer. And some new and historical recordings of compositions by Philip Glass, Bernhard Lang, Gérard Grisey and Marcin Stańczyk illustrate the origins and ongoing influence of minimalism and spectralism. Seattleites Marc Barreca and Kerry Leimer demonstrate dark ambient music’s affinity for both those movements, while we salute fellow Northwesterner Robert Millis for his 60th birthday, Seymour Shifrin for his 100th, and Pierre Schaeffer’s final canonical work, Le Trièdre Fertile, for its 50th. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell on 91.3 KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma.
