Aaron Jay Kernis, Yale faculty member and recent winner of  Northwestern University’s Nemmers Prize, visits to talk music, life  and everything.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Produced by Jesse McQuarters

Ecstatic Meditations

Mikrokosmos Chamber Choir/Loïc Pierre conducting

Sym of Meditations, Meditation on Oneness

Yale Symphony Orchestra & Glee Club/Kernis; Amanda Hall, sop.

Double Concerto, I

Cho-Liang Lin, v. & Sharon Isbin, g.; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff

Pandora Dance from Colored Field

San Francisco Symphony/Alasdair Neale; Julie Ann Giacobassi, english horn

Two Movements with Bells, I

James Ehnes, v.; Andrew Armstrong, p.

Too Hot Tocatta (excerpt)

Grant Park Symphony Orchestra/Carlos KalmarPurchase