New Music from Bowling Green, an internationally syndicated weekly radio broadcast series produced by WGTE-FM and Bowling Green State University’s College of Musical Arts, has begun its second season.
Airtime is 1 p.m. Sundays on WGTE-FM 91, with encore broadcasts at 10 p.m. Mondays.
In a format combining recordings of live performances plus composer interviews by WGTE music director Brad Cresswell, the series has helped introduce audiences to contemporary compositions.
Most of the music has been recorded during the BGSU Festival of New Music, but a concert in Chicago’s famed Constellation, avant-garde music venue, also is in this second season.
The new series will include music performed by violist Nadia Sirota, plus works by Frederic Rzewski, Braxton Blake, Stephen Hartke, George Lewis, and Orianna Webb.
A new wrinkle will offer three episodes of music by female composers, performed by female artists.
Also on tap are more words and comments by Jennifer Higdon, the Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning composer, a BGSU alumna who curated this series.
Since launching in 2013, the series has been carried by 162 radio stations in 24 states, as well as the Philippines and Dubai, reaching a total market of some 37 million listeners.
WFMT, a Chicago public station, is distributor for the program.
First Published January 22, 2015, 5:00 a.m.
