Our "50 years ago in the avant-garde" feature summons the zeitgeist of June 1976 with the duos of Anthony Braxton & Richard Teitelbaum, and Don Cherry & Charlie Haden, while The Residents cover the Rolling Stones and Frank Zappa uses his “xenochrony” technique to combine guitar rips, drumbeats and Ivesian hymnody. On the contemporary front, Donnacha Dennehy's new opera The First Child examines themes of vengeance and violence while John Luther Adams finds a new home and a new string orchestra piece in central Australia. Free improv meets prog rock in the George quartet’s latest album, while Zhang Meng modernizes the Chinese sheng, Joseph Branciforte and Jozef Dumoulin rehabilitate the Fender Rhodes, and The Dwarfs of East Agouza connect Cairo and Shenzhen. The latest installments in our ongoing exploration of Frederic Rzewski’s The Road and the Endlings duo's Parallel project round out the playlist. Creative and improvised music with host Michael Schell from 91.3 KBCS Bellevue/Seattle.
