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Happy Podcast Monday! This week we conclude our Gubaidulina tribute with her last composition, The Wrath of God, and the cheerier Fairy-Tale Poem. Plus Braxton, Frith, Barrett, Pancrace, @DevinGrayMusic and an obscure Stockhausen gem for its 50th birthday. mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic…

Born OTD in Chicago 80 years ago was Anthony Braxton. Among many offerings for satiating the Braxton itch is this podcast looking back at "New York, Fall 1974" the first of the great Arista albums that cemented his reputation as a unifying avant-gardist. mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic…

Born on this date in Utrecht was Louis Andriessen (1939–2021), the first great Dutch composer to emerge since the Baroque era. In this podcast we hear his last work, May, in its premiere recording from Cappella Amsterdam and Orchestra18C for PENTATONE. mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic…

Happy birthday to Robert Schumann (1810–1856), who appeared on the Flotation Device radar via David Kaplan's New Dances of the League of David on New Focus Recordings, which combines his Op. 6 with insertions and commentaries by @CaroShawMusic and Augusta Read Thomas. mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic…

Tonight Flotation Device celebrates Anthony Braxton's 80th birthday with an exclusive interview and a career retrospective of this most formidable of creative musicians. With Wadada Leo Smith, Chick Corea, Max Roach and more. Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm 91.3 KBCS

Now at YouTube, my 80th birthday interview with Anthony Braxton, where we chat about his early influences, his concepts of composite reality and trans-idiomatic music, his health, his latent interest in opera, and why he's still optimistic about America. youtu.be/pCkdfNC1k5I

Now out in podcast format: Old Meets New with Bright Sheng's Chinese zodiac, @Prachissimo's Medieval organ, Dal:um's Korean duo and ed pettersen's clattery Celtic ballads. Plus Frith, @DanLippel, Mitchell/Gentile, Francisco Mela and more. mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic… Seth & Yulun

It's the jahrzeit today of Paul Sperry (1934–2024), the unconventional American lyric tenor, adept at singing both Berio and lieder. We said farewell in this podcast with his recordings of Ives, Henze & Maderna. With London Sinfonietta and @DivertimentoEns. mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic…

Next on Flotation Device: -Per Nørgård (1932–2025) -Schuller, Malec, Dlugoszewski, Clementi at 100 -New solo piano tracks by Shipp, Jarrett, @TimoAndres -Theo Bleckmann sings Laubrock -Marshall Allen @AlexPaxtonYeah @Yikii_Tong & more Sun 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm

Thanks to everyone who tuned in tonight. If you missed us live, stream the show on demand at 91.3 KBCS while you await the podcast version. Nørgård, Schuller, Jarrett, Dlugoszewski, Shipp, @TimoAndres, Marshall Allen, @AlexPaxtonYeah, @Yikii_Tong and more. widgets.spinitron.com/KBCS/pl/207983…

Happy Podcast Monday! This week @JackQuartet goes minimalist, Explore Ensemble plays @AlexPaxtonYeah, Theo Bleckmann sings Laubrock, plus Anna Rubin, @HarmonicRanch, Maija Hynninen on PARMA Recordings and a farewell to Yasunao Tone and Guy Klucevsek mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic… 91.3 KBCS

Megan McArdle The difference between the current crop of ACLU legal strategists (e.g., Romero, Strangio) and the old-time ACLU, not to mention Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston at the NAACP-LDF, is just enormous. What a gift to the right.

Happy birthday to percussionist and bandleader @John_Hollenbeck, born on this date in 1968. We explored his experimental big band album Colouring Hockets in this recent podcast, with @PFVibes, Marcio Doctor, Matt Moran, Hamburg's NDR Bigband and more. mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic…

More than 80% of Iranians oppose the Islamic Republic. They deserve allies, not threats. Israel & the U.S. must support the people, not just fight the regime. Read the whole piece by Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert here: thenextmove.org/p/israel-cant-…

an absolutely damning piece in the NYT today, tracing how the new leaders of the LGBT activist class — dripping with venom and resentment for the many incremental victories of their predecessors — led the community to one of our greatest legal & cultural losses in years. 🔗 below

The clear difference is that gay advocates took same-sex marriage to the Supreme Court and won, whereas the Biden administration and the ACLU took the fight over bans of pediatric gender-transition treatment to the highest court and lost. A more subtle difference is that 19

Ludovic Morlot is leading @SeattleSymphony this weekend for the last time in a while (he has no engagements at @BenaroyaHall next season). After Ravel's Bolero, he kindly brought the two snare drum players, Jonathan Wisner and Matthew Decker, to the podium to share the final bow.

Tonight on Flotation Device: -Terry Riley at 90 w/@Kronos_Quartet -RIP to 𝙽𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝙳𝚒𝚍𝚔𝚘𝚟𝚜𝚔𝚢's Rob Henke -Friedemann Eichhorn plays Fazıl Say -Pat Kop plays Francisco Coll -Benjamin Appl & Pierre-Laurent Aimard play Kurtág -Avant-garde KeithJarrett.org Sunday 10pm PDT, 91.3fm kbcs.fm

Thanks to everyone who tuned in tonight. If you missed us live, stream the show on demand at 91.3 KBCS while you await the podcast version. Terry Riley at 90, György Kurtág at 99, @FazilSayMusic, Francisco Coll, Jarrett, and a farewell to 𝙽𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝙳𝚒𝚍𝚔𝚘𝚟𝚜𝚔𝚢's Rob Henke. widgets.spinitron.com/KBCS/pl/208277…

Now in podcast format: our two-hour 80th birthday Anthony Braxton salute, with an exclusive interview plus musical contributions by Max Roach, Chick Corea, George Lewis, @HawkinsMusic, Wadada Leo Smith, Thumbscrew, Marilyn Crispell, Tomas Fujiwara and more. mixcloud.com/FlotationDevic…