A big trend in the 2000’s saw contemporary music ensembles   commissioning composers not to write new pieces for them but to arrange   music by pop artists.
We’ll listen to music from two such collaborations: Alarm Will Sound  performing arrangements of electronic musician Aphex Twin and Osso  Quartet’s arrangements of indie pop superstar Sufjan Stevens.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
PLAYLIST
Sufjan Stevens: Year of the Snake (excerpt)
Sufjan Stevens (arr. Olivier Manchon): Year of the Snake
Osso String Quartet
King Crimson (arr. Ziporyn): Epitaph
Maya Beiser, vc.
Philip Glass, Symphony No. 1, Low Symphony, I (excerpt)
Brooklyn Philharmonic/Davies
Beck (arr. Kahane): Mutilation Rag 2:08
Ymusic
Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator (excerpt)
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator
Balanescu String Quartet
Sigur Rós (arr. Prutsman): Flugufrelsarinn
Kronos Quartet
Queen/Tolga Kashif: The Queen Symphony, III (Who Wants to Live Forever, Save Me)
Royal Philharmonic/Tolga Kashif
Aphex Twin: Logon Rock Witch (excerpt)
Aphex Twin
Aphex Twin (arr. Jonathan Newman): Logon Rock Witch
Alarm Will Sound