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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Concert RebroadcastsDvořák's New WorldSamuel Barber The School for Scandal OvertureNina Shekhar Accordion Concerto (World Premiere)Intermission interviews with:Daniela Candillari, conductorNina Shekhar, composerHanzhi Wang, accordionist Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"2025-01-151h 57

For Good MeasureNina Shekhar - Part 8For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)Episode 113: Nina Shekhar - Part 8Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in weekly to For Good Measure!In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about her advice for emerging artists, censorship she's experienced, identity and approval, and a few upcoming projects. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com/. This episode was originally recorded in December 2023....2024-07-2915 min

For Good MeasureNina Shekhar - Part 7For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)Episode 112: Nina Shekhar - Part 7Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in weekly to For Good Measure!In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about multimedia and collaboration in her pieces “Redact” and “Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner." If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com/. This episode was originally recorded in December 2023.T...2024-07-2211 min

For Good MeasureNina Shekhar - Part 6For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)Episode 111: Nina Shekhar - Part 6Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in weekly to For Good Measure!In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about concepts on form, memory, and trauma in her piece "Don't Beat a Word" and being a Composer-in-Residence for The Crossing and LA Chamber Orchestra. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com...2024-07-1511 min

For Good MeasureNina Shekhar - Part 5For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)Episode 110: Nina Shekhar - Part 5Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in weekly to For Good Measure!In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about her artistic identity, cultural influence, and immigrant family experiences. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com/. This episode was originally recorded in December 2023.This podcast is made...2024-07-0810 min

For Good MeasureNina Shekhar - Part 4For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)Episode 109: Nina Shekhar - Part 4Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in weekly to For Good Measure!In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about her compositional influences and mentors, and the challenges she has faced as a woman and an Indian American composer. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com/. This episode was originally reco...2024-07-0111 min

For Good MeasureNina Shekhar - Part 3For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)Episode 108: Nina Shekhar - Part 3Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in weekly to For Good Measure!In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about her pieces “Quirkhead” and “Above the Fray," and discuss her perspective on vulnerability, identity, and mental health. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com/. This episode was originally recorded in December 2...2024-06-2414 min

For Good MeasureNina Shekhar - Part 2For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)Episode 107: Nina Shekhar - Part 2Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in weekly to For Good Measure!In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about her creative life during the pandemic and her overall practice as a composer. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com/. This episode was originally recorded in December 2023.This podc...2024-06-1714 min

For Good MeasureNina Shekhar - Part 1For Good Measure, by Ensemble for These Times (E4TT)Episode 106: Nina Shekhar - Part 1Looking for a way to listen to diverse creators and to support equity in the arts? Tune in weekly to For Good Measure!In this week’s episode, we talk to Nina Shekhar about her compositional process and path to becoming a composer. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Nina Shekhar, check her out here: https://www.ninashekhar.com/. This episode was originally recorded in December 2023.This podcast is made possible in p...2024-06-1012 min

CSO Audio Program NotesCSO Program Notes: Jaap van Zweden Conducts Beethoven 5From its commanding four-note opening to its blazing finish, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony remains the unrivaled expression of struggle and triumph in orchestral music. German baritone Christian Gerhaher, “the foremost art song singer of our time” (The New York Times), performs selections from Mahler’s The Youth’s Magic Horn. Inspired by Hindustani classical music, Nina Shekhar’s shimmering Lumina explores the contrast of light and dark. Learn more: cso.org/performances/23-24/cso-classical/jaap-van-zweden-conducts-beethoven-5 2023-10-0223 min

Relevant TonesNina ShekharNina Shekhar is a composer who explores the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter to create bold and intensely personal works. Described as “tart and compelling” (New York Times), “vivid” (Washington Post), and “surprises and delights aplenty” (LA Times), her music has been commissioned and performed by numerous leading artists. Since 2021, Shekhar has been the Composer-in-Residence for Young Concert Artists. Host Stephen Anthony Rawson sits down to talk with Nina about the recent performance of her piece Lumina at the Seattle Symphony, exploring identity through remixing and sampling, mental health, and much more. 2023-01-241h 06

Music Crush with FNMCI like chickens, I like feminism, and I like Jennifer HigdonElizabeth introduces Nicole to some new-to-her music she’s working on, explains her deep love for Jennifer Higdon as a human being, and discusses her commissioning experiences. Nicole also explains her weird coordination issues with extended techniques and they both explore the plight of the composers whose work isn’t accurately represented in performance. (Side note: we misidentified Cherise's piece, A Voice Silenced..., as using material from Billie Holiday. We were wrong, it's Ella Fitzgerald. Sorry Cherise, and we love you!) Music by Women Festival in March 2023: https://web1.muw.edu/musicbywomen Shulamit Ran, Flight of the...2023-01-1848 min

Vrije geluiden op NPO KlassiekVrije Geluiden: CalefaxDe Calefax Composers Competition wordt dit jaar voor de 15e keer gehouden. > Fagottist Alban Wesly vertelt er over! En natuurlijk horen we een mooie opname van een van de vorige winnaars. En verder: de Hollandse Nieuwe (het Dudok Quartet speelt Sjostakovitsj), en muziek van Valentyn Silvestrov. 23.04 CD Bach’s Musical Offerings (Pentatone PTC 5186 840) Johann Sebastian Bach: Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 - I Largo Calefax + Arthur Klaassens 6’13” 23.13 eigen opname Nina Shekhar: Red Calefax 8’32” CD Bach’s Musical Offerings (Pentatone PTC 5186 840) Johann Sebastian Bach: 14 Canons BWV 1087 Calefax + Arthur Klaasse...2022-12-1059 min

Soundweavers2.19 Making Music for Silent Films: FRAME EnsembleIrine Røsnes, Trevor Bartlett, and Jonny Best of FRAME Ensemble joins us to discuss their work improvising for silent films, from how they got started working within this genre to their process preparing for each film. They share about their approach to the traditions for performance with silent films and how they approach the various challenges associated with a genre so uniquely situated in a specific moment in time. The transcript for this episode can be found here. For more information about Nina Shekhar, please visit her website and Facebook.2022-05-2529 min

Soundweavers2.18 Using Music To Explore Identity: Nina ShekharComposer Nina Shekhar joins us to chat about her work exploring identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter in her work and her process for exploring such complex aspects of humanity in seemingly mundane experiences, such as the car horns on the streets of India. We talk about how she approaches the business side of a professional career in composition, and how her work as a flutist, saxophonist, and pianist has informed her comfort with a wide array of compositional styles. And we speak about how we can all be more mindful to empower and promote the agency of composers and...2022-05-1132 min

Sound PerimeterIf These WallsThis week, University of Arkansas music professor Lia Uribe brings us a selection of music by composers Nina Shekhar, Roberto Sierra and Rebecca Dale.2022-05-0509 min

PorterFlute PodS4 Ep. 7 Blue Flute Alumni Composer Nina Shekhar: Exploring the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughterBlue Flute Alumni and award winning composer Nina Shekhar is my guest and we really give the attention and light to female and nonbinary composers. We want to live in the solution. From her bio "Nina Shekhar is a composer who explores the intersection of identity, vulnerability, love, and laughter to create bold and intensely personal works." Enjoy the podcast as we feature some of her works!2022-04-2742 min

PorterFlute PodS4 Ep. 2 Animals and MusicLet’s talk about music, animals and life. They all go together emotionally and scientifically. Listen to stories, studies and facts behind music on our human planet and our animal planet. With stories by Laura Dwyer, and Co-producers Justine Sedky and Alan J Tomasetti. Featuring Amy Porter playing "Zoo Song" by Nina Shekhar.2022-03-1634 min

Upbeat LiveNathalie Joachim + Pamela Z with Rachel Iba • LA Phil 2021/22Violinist and educator, Rachel Iba, explores the musical storytelling behind pieces by Angélica Negrón, Nathalie Joachim, Pamela Z, Allison Loggins-Hull and Nina Shekhar. This talk was given at the performance of Nathalie Joachim + Pamela Z at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Pieces discussed: Angélica NEGRÓN This Person Nathalie JOACHIM “Suite pou Dantan” from Fanm d’Ayiti Pamela Z The Schmetterling Allison LOGGINS-HULL The Pattern Pamela Z Silent H (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts I...2022-01-1233 min

Speaking of the ArtsA thankful retrospective of some of the 2021 chatsIt is Thanksgiving week here in America, so what better time to be thankful for all the arts chats of the year, and to look back on just a handful of them. There was the chat with the champion of Juneteenth, the fabulous Ms Opal Lee of Fort Worth TX back in February; in June Greenhouse Theatre Project's Elizabeth Braaten Palmieri and David Wilson talked about the one-woman show 'Grounded', and artist David Spear's finished his painting of the Blind Boone mural and talked about anamorphic perspective; Mizzou International Composer's Festival composer Nina Shekhar came on the show in July...2021-11-2658 min

The Saad Haddad ShowThis Princeton Composer Wants to Turn Your Feet Around (ft. Nina Shekhar)Nina Shekhar has recently been named Young Concert Artists’ 2021-23 Composer-in-Residence, which follows my own 2-year residency in this post. Join me as we discover what drives Nina to create music, as well as hear a sampling of her work. 00:00 Introducing Nina Shekhar 08:53 Expressing OCD through “Quirkhead” 13:56 Excerpt from “Quirkhead” 14:55 How did music boxes inspire “hush”? 21:08 Excerpt from “hush” 22:55 Why should we paint our toenails red in “DEAR ABBY”? 27:45 Excerpt from “DEAR ABBY” 31:45 Should contemporary music be fun? (“Turn Your Feet Around”) 38:03 Excerpt from “Turn Your Feet Around” 43:10 Where do you see your work going in 5 years? 49:43 What do you look forward to this upcoming...2021-09-2453 min

PorterFlute PodS3, Ep. 1 - What's Up Amy?What's Up Amy? Join us for our Season 3 preview, Season 2 review and catch up on updates from the summer of 2021. You'll learn about a new member of Trio Virado and find out about the latest invention that we can't talk about! Featuring "Blaze" for five flutes by Nina Shekhar. Performed by Amy Porter, Chappy Gibb, Henry Woolf, Rachel Reyes and Emily Claman from Brevard Music Center's flute studio 2021. 2021-09-1518 min

Speaking of the ArtsPhotographer Shane Epping gets the Arts Exit interviewPhotographer Shane Epping and his work have been a constant in Columbia for the past 16 years, but next month Shane and his family leave mid-Missouri and head to Laramie, WY, where he will take up a newly created photojournalism endowed professorship at the University of Wyoming. So, on this week's show, host Diana Moxon, gives Shane the arts exit interview in a wide ranging chat that covers his work as a sports and news photojournalist, his art photography, his volunteer work with the organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (nowilaymedowntosleep.org), why his camera helps him find meaning...2021-07-301h 02

Speaking of the ArtsBehind the scenes at the Mizzou International Composer's FestivalEach summer since 2010, the Mizzou New Music Initiative has held its Mizzou International Composer's Festival, selecting a handful of up-and-coming composers to study with the festival's guest composers (this year Chen Yi and David T. Little), give and take workshops, and produce an original composition to be played by the internationally acclaimed ensemble, Alarm Will Sound. On this week's show Diana Moxon chats with the festival's Managing Director, Jacob Gotlib, and to three of the selected resident composers - Nina Shekhar (https://ninashekhar.com/), Shuying Li (https://www.shuyingli.com/) and Celka Ojakangas (https://www.celka.net/). Opening and closing...2021-07-2359 min

Once Upon A CrimeFugitives from Justice: Nazira Ugalde and Brenda DelgadoIn this episode I’ll share two separate cases of women who became part of a very small and exclusive club - women who made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Nazira Ugalde killed for financial gain and flees to South America. A young woman in Texas, Brenda Delgado, plans the murder of her romantic rival and disappears soon after being questioned by police. Resources: "New details emerge about Reno 'Black Widow', Behind the Crime Tape Blog, Nov. 27, 2012 "Fugitive Black Widow wanted in ex-husband's 2008 murder arrested i Peru", by Nina Golgowski for New York Daily News, Jun 5, 2014. "Mother of Hygenist...2019-11-1225 min