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Beautiful Music NOW - Michael Torke

Bryan Hainer
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courtesy of the artist

Today's Beautiful Music is by innovative American composer Michael Torke. Born in Milwaukee in 1961, Torke's genre-blending style includes classical, jazz, and minimalism, and many of his compositions are regularly performed and recorded. However, when this performance of his 1997 BRICK SYMPHONY was made in 2017, there was no commercially available recording of this composition. Alasdair Neale conducts the San Francisco Symphony from the 1998 world premiere.

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.