February 2025 – Relevant Tones

#458 Sean Hickey – sapiens

Posted on February 24, 2025February 23, 2025 by Seth Boustead in Composer Features

Yuval Noah Harari’s breathtakingly expansive book Sapiens is a monumental achievement that comprehensively summarizes human history, behavior and thought from primordial times to today. The book is also the inspiration for a 50-minute piano work by composer Sean Hickey recorded by pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev on Sono Luminus records and available on March 14, 2025. Host … Continue reading #458 Sean Hickey – sapiens →

#457 Shara nova

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 by Seth Boustead in Composer Features, Performer Features

Shara Nova is a composer, vocalist, and producer currently creating from Detroit, Michigan. Shara has released six albums under the moniker ⁠My Brightest Diamond⁠ and has composed works for The Crossing, Conspirare, yMusic, Brooklyn Rider, Roomful of Teeth, Aarhus Symfoni, and American Composers Orchestra among many others. In 2024 she starred in the Tony Award … Continue reading #457 Shara nova →

#456 Speaking Instrumentalist

Posted on February 3, 2025February 4, 2025 by Seth Boustead in Themed Shows

Host Seth Boustead features a variety of pieces by composers who ask the performers to vocalize in some way while also playing their instrument. Music by Frederick Rzewski, George Crumb, Daniel Bernard Roumain and Tom Johnson.