Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center 91.7 FM WHUS

09/02/2024

Reminder: Calls for Participation are now open, deadline 8 September 2024 (29 September for the Composition Workshop)

08/31/2024

Charles Amirkhanian and György Ligeti. Photo by Carol Law.

08/27/2024

Greetings! Welcome to Pushing The Envelope's annual celebration of International Strange Music Day! The brainchild of New York City musician/composer & creator of the public music ensemble, Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars, the purpose of International Strange Music Day is to expan...

08/20/2024

Check this out!!! One of my favorites of the year. 🎶

Denman Maroney Quintet ‘The Air-Conditionate Nightmare’ recensione di Filippo Focosi: https://www.kathodik.org/2024/08/19/denman-maroney-quintet-the-air-conditionate-nightmare/ Neuma Records Filippo Focosi

08/19/2024

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08/16/2024

08/14/2024

08/14/2024

Follow us on Bandcamp as we prepare archival and new releases. Link in comments. & His Guitar Trio All-Stars, Issue Project Room, 27 January 2007. Photo: Michelle Dixey l-r:

08/14/2024

Sample Tracks from Percussia's album Plucked and Struck (Neuma Records 197). CD and digital downloads available from https://percussia.bandcamp.com/album/plu...

08/11/2024

Greetings! Many new items this week (both recent releases and items that are new to me) along with things I found rummaging through the ill-managed piles of CDs that surround me in my basement lair. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Twitter-like x-thing: https://twitt...

08/11/2024

24 track album

08/03/2024

Conlon Nancarrow’s musical score and piano roll punching machine, Mexico City 1977 (OM Archives).

08/03/2024

Greetings! Happy Post-Birthday to Terry Riley! (June 24th) Enjoy an early composition from 1965 followed by a new composition honoring Terry Riley's, "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band", the "B-side" of his classic release, "A Rainbow In Curved Air". " Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band" is a saxopho...

07/26/2024

07/22/2024

Looking forward to 2025 Festival: 28 February-1 March 2025!

Calls for Participation are now open, deadline 8 September 2024 (29 September for the Composition Workshop)

07/21/2024

For A Reason: online launch celebration, Saturday, June 17, 2023A live event marking the release of For A Reason, a major new double album of works by Roger ...

07/21/2024

Greetings! This week's program offers up a veritable cornucopia of new music (2024), sort of new music (2023/2021) & older music (1971/1972). Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Twitter-like x-thing: https://x.com/envpusher1 7-20-24 PTE Playlist Intermountainous - Julian Bertino,...

07/20/2024

12 track album

07/14/2024

Greetings! This week's program features music from three very different artists, none of whom I would have ever run into were it not for the fine folks at the "Get Music" web-site (https://www.getmusic.fm/). "Get Music" is an artist promotion site that, from the music addict's point of view, facilit...

07/12/2024

A young George Antheil at the piano, accompanied by Olga Rudge on violin (OM Archives).

07/09/2024

Greetings! New, New, New, New, Conlon Nancarrow (2008), Emily Hay (2005), New, New, New, New, New & New!! Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Twitter-like x-thing: https://x.com/envpusher1 7-6-24 PTE Playlist Ode to Vahan - piano: Sahan Arzruni / composer: Alicia Terzian - BY WO...

07/08/2024

Greetings! I definitely employed a very "stream of consciousness" vibe as I programmed this week's show, starting with a cello track I couldn't fit into my earlier cello-themed show, getting to a couple of Petridisch tracks, 80's vintage Robert Wyatt's take on a Chic tune, new music from my compadre...

06/29/2024

Greetings! This week's program presents a potpourri of musical stylings ranging from William Bolcom's piano rags arranged for string quartet to the new release from New York prog rockers, Izz, to Iron Butterfly's "In A Gadda Da Vida". Eclectic programming? Sure. What else is new? Enjoy! Joel e-mail:...

06/28/2024

2 track album

06/23/2024

Greetings! By the time you hear this, I'll have already returned from my 2 week jaunt to the wilds of Alaska, but I couldn't resist the episode's title focused on compositions for cello and derived, NOT from the 2012 film I've never seen, OR Phil Collins' second solo album from 1982, BUT the 1930 cl...