web01.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:12:03 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) SoundLives - Episodes Tagged with “Central Park Five” https://soundlives.fireside.fm/tags/central%20park%20five Mon, 16 May 2022 18:45:00 -0400 SoundLives, a NewMusicBox podcast, is brought to you by New Music USA, the resource for adventurous creators and listeners in the US and beyond. This program is funded in part by: the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs – and listeners like you. en-us episodic SoundLives, a NewMusicBox podcast, shares insights and stories from people who dedicate their lives to new music. Frank J. Oteri SoundLives, a NewMusicBox podcast, is brought to you by New Music USA, the resource for adventurous creators and listeners in the US and beyond. This program is funded in part by: the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs – and listeners like you. no Frank J. Oteri box@newmusicusa.org Episode 15: Anthony Davis: Any Means Necessary https://soundlives.fireside.fm/15 af01f0f6-39cd-4362-a79d-a92ae1120788 Mon, 16 May 2022 18:45:00 -0400 Frank J. Oteri full Frank J. Oteri Anthony Davis uses jazz, classical, and many other styles in operas dealing with major historic events or important social concerns. 57:36 no For Anthony Davis, whose compositional aesthetics are an amalgamation of several different musical traditions (jazz, Western classical music, gamelan), different kinds of music recall different emotional states and experiences in terms of what the music implies. So it's inevitable that he has devoted so much of his compositional energies to opera, and in particular to using the operatic medium to tell stories that either deal with significant historic events or which focus on important social concerns. As he tells Frank J. Oteri in this latest episode of NewMusicBox's SoundLives podcast, "What we face now ... has made it more urgent for me, as an artist, to present things to challenge those forces." Read more on NewMusicBox: https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/anthony-davis-any-means-necessary/. NewMusicBox, SoundLives, composer conversation, jazz, opera, social justice, X, Central Park Five For Anthony Davis, whose compositional aesthetics are an amalgamation of several different musical traditions (jazz, Western classical music, gamelan), different kinds of music recall different emotional states and experiences in terms of what the music implies. So it's inevitable that he has devoted so much of his compositional energies to opera, and in particular to using the operatic medium to tell stories that either deal with significant historic events or which focus on important social concerns. As he tells Frank J. Oteri in this latest episode of NewMusicBox's SoundLives podcast, "What we face now ... has made it more urgent for me, as an artist, to present things to challenge those forces." Read more on NewMusicBox: https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/anthony-davis-any-means-necessary/.

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