Music Interviews

With its setting in Oregon's High Desert and mountains, and its complex main characters searching to be reunited, Days Gone, by SIE Bend Studios isn't a typical post-apocalyptic game. Composer Nathan Whitehead told me that both the setting and love story, even bringing a shred of humanity to the infected Freakers, all gave him plenty of ideas for his soundtrack. 

As a newly-signed artist to Sony Masterworks, Inon Zur's first project is Into the Storm, an album of songs inspired by the fantasy world of his music for Dragon Age. 

As he told me, the album is dedicated to his fans, and they'll find the music on the album both welcoming and familiar.

On Saturday, May 18 at 4 pm, pianist Tony Caramia presents a program that spans six decades of the 20th century's evolution of jazz, from ragtime through Marian McPartland. The concert is part of Trinity Southport's Music Under the Spire series, and also includes a master class on Friday, May 17.

On Saturday, May 18, the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra caps off its season with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9! Kate Remington talks with conductor Jonathan Yates, who says the real challenge is to make the performance sound as though audiences are hearing it for the first time.