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aspen laugh.jpg Aspen Winds is a string quartet native to Utah. In this epsiode they present a selection of songs that celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completetion of the transcontinental railroad. Songs featured: Surmounting Every Barrier; Irish Jig; Zhang Songs; Summerland;  City of Kindling; Thule Ultima; Fantasia and Cabaletta; Woodwind Quintet 3, Mvt. 2 Learn more about them here: http://www.aspenwinds.org/ Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

Image may contain: 1 person, eyeglasses and outdoor Columbia is a singer-songwriter of Americana music who comes from a small town in Maine. He is currently based in Murray, Utah.  Songs featured: Run, Twenty-Five, Trouble, Life Changes, Hang My Hat, Save My Soul, Devil’s Music, Call You, Real Bad, Daddy’s Boots Learn more about them here: https://columbiajonesmusic.com/  Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

The Copper Hills High Madrigals Choir, directed by Marc Taylor, is the winner of the 2018 Classical 89 High School Choir Competition. In this episode of Highway 89 they perform a selection of their best music. Songs featured: Walking on the Green Grass; Take Care of This House/My House; It Don't Mean a Thing; Pure Imagination; The Kiss; Suo Gan; Vestigia; Unicornis Captivatur; Leron, Leron Sinta Learn more about them here: https://bit.ly/2WPN95X

Carl Cranmer is a world-famous pianist performing two differet excerpts from Gabriel Faure and Nikolai Medtner on Highway 89.  Songs featured: Nine Préludes, Op. 103 (five of them) 1. D-flat major-Allegro 2. c-sharp minor-Allegro 4. F major-Allegro moderato 5. d minor-Allegro 8. c minor-Allegro; Forgotten Melodies II, Op. 39: 1. Meditazione 2. Romanza 3. Primavera 4. Canzona matinata 5. Sonata tragica Learn more about him here: https://www.wcupa.edu/music/appliedmusic/cCranmer.aspx  Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

Image result for aimee nolte Aimee Nolte is a jazz singer and pianist, visiting us from LA where she shines in the gigging scene as both a solo artist and the leader of a trio. While she’s primarily a jazz player, she brings her chops to music of all kinds – Aimee knows more than a thousand songs and can play them at the drop of a hat. Some of those songs have been captured in a growing catalog of recordings that have been called “deeply personal, captivating works of art.” In 2016, Aimee started her YouTube channel, "Aimee Nolte Music" where she shares music and music conversation with a large and growing family of subscribers and fans. the world. There, in cyberspace, she teaches things like harmony, arranging, advanced jazz piano techniques, and even beginning piano and vocal skills. Her visit to us on Highway 89 marks the release of a new album. About the album, she says she wants to create something that capitalizes on her jazz background, but “sees no limits, and stretches to include all flavors of m

Folk-rock group Grizzly Goat describes their sound as 'Undomesticated Americana.' Listen to discover exactly what that means, what it's like to record in a rural Utah cabin, and why this band wants to write a song about all 50 states! Songs featured: Time; Oh My Road; Virginia, Gentle, Wild Spaces; Oh Good Lord; Idaho; Don't Know How; Out of Sight Ain't Out of Mind; Southern Indiana; The Higher Ground  Learn more about them here: https://www.grizzlygoatmusic.com/ Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:  "Oh Good Lord": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6tAVDPm50 "Southern Indiana": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsWpSE3wtY "Oh My Road": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2a0MFgvHjY "Idaho": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUmlOJXcbI

In 2005, a group of singers was en route to a festival in Italy. They had the repertoire, they were rehearsed – all ready to wow their waiting audience. All they needed now was a name. Paul Smith, one of those singers, said, "We needed a name to go on stage and there were eight of us and we were in Italy. We wanted something that feels like voices but had that Latin vibe to it, so we went with voces." Thus was born VOCES8, a group that Gramophone calls “impeccable in its tone and balance.” The group brings to audiences a captivating blend of original and commissioned pieces, classical works, and even pop tunes. They’ve got a large and growing catalog of recordings, including their 2019 release Enchanted Isle, and maintains a touring and performing schedule that puts them before audiences in the most prestigious halls in the world. As part of their visit to Brigham Young University as guests of the BRAVO! series, members of the group stopped by the Highway 89 studio to share conversation and album cuts with

The Crossroads Project: Rising Tideroger chase Touring music of the masters as well as exciting original works from visionary composers of our time, the Fry Street Quartet has perfected what The Strad calls a "blend of technical precision and scorching spontaneity." The quartet has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall to London, and from Sarajevo to Jerusalem, exploring the medium of the string quartet and its life-affirming potential with what the Deseret News calls "profound understanding...depth of expression, and stunning technical astuteness." The Quartet is joined on this episode by a couple of very special guests: acclaimed violist Roger Chase, who once said “I was very bad at being told how to play – I wanted to find out for myself” – a philosophy that has put him in good stead on stages and in classrooms all over the world as a truly inspiring performer and teacher. Also with us the group is pianist Michiko Otaki, having traveled from Clayton University near Atlanta, which is merely home base for

The NEXT Ensemble performs live at Kaffe Mercantile. Their mission is to bring concert music to small coffee-shop venues like this one. Songs featured: Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello in G Major, Prelude; Sonata No. 1 for Solo violin in G Minor, Adagio; Five; B.B. Wolf; PBD19; You Are Not Machines Learn more about them here: http://nextensemble.org/web/home.aspx Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

When the talented musicians of Brigham Young University’s Mountain Strings play their instruments, the air comes alive with sounds of good, old-fashioned fun. With energetic performances featuring American and international folk music, Mountain Strings plays their way into the hearts of audiences around the world. Mountain Strings performs live in Studio 6 at BYU Radio. Learn more about them here: https://pam.byu.edu/group/mountain-strings/

Image result for ethel string quartet In 1998, a string quartet burst onto the New York City music scene, bringing with it the riches of conservatory scholarship and study, and also embracing the intensity of rock, the grooves of jazz and hip hop, the eclecticism of world-beat bands, and more. We’re talking about ETHEL, the group that now includes cellist Dorothy Lawson, violist Ralph Farris, and violinists Corin Lee and Kip Jones. And in the decades since its beginnings, the group has fostered a dedication to collaboration and innovation that has seen it share stages and recordings with artists like David Byrne, Kurt Elling, Jake Shimabukura, Thomas Dolby and many more. The group also elevates the musical world around it through a passion for performing new work by exciting contemporary composers. ETHEL has premiered nearly 200 new works in addition to its own compositions. Now, decades after its beginnings, the group has taken its place as a trailblazing force in redefining contemporary concert music. I

Cherie Headshot 1 Vocalist Cherie Call is accompanied by pianist Brett Raymond share some of their holiday favorites on this Christmas-time Highway 89.  Learn more about them here: https://cheriecall.com/; https://brettraymond.com/home/(Vocalist Cherie Call is accompanied by pianist Brett Raymond share some of their holiday favorites on this Christmas-time Highway 89. Learn more about them here: https:/cheriecall.com/; https:/brettraymond.com/home Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:)   Watch selections from this episode on YouTube:

Image result for jim brickman World-renowned pianist Jim Brickman joins Highway 89 at the beginning of his Joyful Christmas tour.  Songs featured: Celebration; Thanksgiving; The Gift; Christmas Medley; That Silent Night; Simple Things; Rocket to the Moon; Timeless; Fly; If You Believe Learn more about him here: https://www.jimbrickman.com/

Image result for rob brandt byu  November 11, 2018, marked the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first World War – the war to end all wars. It saw the mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel. The fighting cost the lives of 9 million combatants and seven million civilians, and the war contributed to other factors – including a worldwide flu epidemic, that cost the lives of tens of millions more. In our time, we come to understand the war by studying its history. But much of what we imagine about living in the world during that conflict has been shaped by our experience with the work of poets, authors, composers, and musicians of the time. We are moved by Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” or the poetry of “In Flanders Fields” by John McRae, or “Marching Men” by Marjorie Pickthall, or “My Boy Jack” by Kipling. Today on Highway 89, we're very pleased to welcome pianist Scott Holden and baritone Robert Brandt into the studio. They bring with them a handful of pieces by World-War

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The Deseret String Quartet, which comprises cellist Michelle Kessler, violinists Alex Woods and Monte Belknap, and violist Claudine Bigelow, performs a piece by Haydn and a contemporary work by Ethan Wickman, commissioned and first performed right here at Brigham Young University. Songs featured: Franz Joseph Haydn's Opus 76 No. 2 "Fifths" and Ethan Wickman's Namaste Learn more about them here. Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89

The tale of our guests today begins, perhaps, in a home in which the father, a painter, exchanged some of his paintings for musical instruments. His sons, soon to be a harpist, a fiddler, and a guitarist, grew up to be Kirkmount, a Celtic band that, when the boys were still very young, kept up a rigorous schedule performing at festivals and in concert halls, making recordings, and they even won A Prairie Home Companion's "Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand" contest. Two of those brothers, Harpist Alex Bigney and fiddler Sam Bigney join us in the studio for an hour of medleys featuring traditional tunes and original pieces. Songs featured: Late Summer Aire, Home on the Columbia, Homecoming, Jerry's Jigs, Rosey's Waltz, Wandering Learn more about them here: www.alexbigneyharp.com Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89

Image result for La Farandole de Courtepin La Farandole de Courtepin is a folk dance and music group from the Alpine town of Courtepin, in the the canton of Fribourg, in Switzerland. The group is made up of about thirty dancers, a brass band of about ten musicians, a team of flag swingers, and three Alphorn players. The group performs all over the world as ambassadors for Swiss culture and are in town to perform at the World Folkfest in Springville, Utah. The group has a mission guided by its stated values: to share, in Switzerland and abroad, the traditional dances and customs of the Fribourg regions while familiarizing young people with folk and traditions, celebrating open-mindness, sharing, commitment, respect of traditions and innovations.  Songs featured: La Triple Danse, Au Jardin d'Automne, Bergers-bergeres, Fanfare du Printemps, Tarentelle Nouvelle, Alphons-Polka, Hymne de la Suisse Romande Find out more about them here: http://farandole.ch/ Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @b

Image result for ensign piano quartet The Ensign Piano Quartet recently performed at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, and the music you'll hear today was recorded live at that concert by Concerts at Temple Square. In this episode we'll bring you that audio along with conversation with the members of the group: CJ Madsen, Kaden Larsen, Hyrum Arneson, and Zach Adamson.  Songs featured: Espana, Finale from Symphony 3, Fugue in G Minor, Barcarolle, Fantasy on Themes from Carmen Learn more about them here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOqd-0QvDsO4URYr3PQgmZZ4no0zN_AKt Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89

Image result for emily sternfeld-dunn Emily Sternfeld-Dunn is certainly a modern artist, sharing the work of contemporary composers in concert halls all over the country, but there's a rich musical heritage to which Emily remains very firmly attached, no matter how far, literally or musically, she may travel. Emily joins us today on Highway 89 to share some old favorites, but also to perform music from her album, titled "She." The album features a lot of great stuff that is talked about in conversation between tunes.  Learn more about Emily here: http://www.emilysternfelddunn.com/#she Songs featured: Too Few the Mornings Be, If All The Griefs I Am to Have, Bee! I'm Expecting You!, How Happy is the Little Stone, Estranged From Beauty, Will There Ever Be A Morning, Good, Snake, The Wound, The Farm, O Mio Bambino Caro, Love is Here to Stay, Where or When, Happy Days/Forget Your Troubles  Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89