Crossing Barriers

A big trend in the 2000’s saw contemporary music ensembles
  commissioning composers not to write new pieces for
them but to arrange   music by pop artists.


We’ll listen to music from two such collaborations: Alarm Will
Sound  performing arrangements of electronic musician Aphex
Twin and Osso  Quartet’s arrangements of indie pop superstar
Sufjan Stevens.


Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters


PLAYLIST
Sufjan Stevens: Year of the Snake (excerpt)


Sufjan Stevens (arr. Olivier Manchon): Year of the Snake
Osso String Quartet


King Crimson (arr. Ziporyn): Epitaph
Maya Beiser, vc.


Philip Glass, Symphony No. 1, Low Symphony, I (excerpt)
Brooklyn Philharmonic/Davies


Beck (arr. Kahane): Mutilation Rag 2:08
Ymusic


Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator (excerpt)
Kraftwerk


Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator
Balanescu String Quartet


Sigur Rós (arr. Prutsman): Flugufrelsarinn
Kronos Quartet


Queen/Tolga Kashif: The Queen Symphony, III (Who Wants to Live
Forever, Save Me)
Royal Philharmonic/Tolga Kashif


Aphex Twin: Logon Rock Witch (excerpt)
Aphex Twin


Aphex Twin (arr. Jonathan Newman): Logon Rock Witch
Alarm Will Sound