New York Special

Published: Oct. 19, 2019, 11:30 a.m.

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Tom Service talks to Steve Reich, for many one of the most important composers alive today. He visits Carnegie Hall and St George\\u2019s Episcopal Church Rutherford Place where Dvorak played a key role in the development of black American classical music. Then to The New School which opened in 1919 as a centre of intellectual and artistic freedom where John Cage studied and taught experimental composition as well as Judson Church where choreographers, artists, and composers met in a socially engaged space to redefine what it is to make art in a spiritual and secular community. Tom also talks to composers and performers Claire Chase and Kamala Sankaram who breathe life and sound into this city, creating a multi-dimensional song that\\u2019s as vibrant and visionary as New York has always been.

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