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Beautiful Music NOW - Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos, 2007
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Wendy Carlos, 2007

In 1968, Wendy Carlos released SWITCHED-ON BACH, a collection of music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on the Moog synthesizer. The multiple Grammy award-winning album introduced people to the synthesizer AND to classical music.

Today's Beautiful Music features selections from SWITCHED-ON BACH.

You can also use the link below to a 1989 BBC interview with Wendy Carlos about the technology and approach to making music on a synthesizer.

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.