Have You Heard This? w/ Josh and Jon: Recent Episodes
Joshua Shank and Jon Fielder
“Have You Heard This?” is an ongoing and informal discussion about music between two friends, choral composer Joshua Shank and electroacoustic composer Jon Fielder. With their shared sense of humor, Josh and Jon have been peacefully staring at each other from VERY opposite sides of the aesthetic spectrum for years, and have often wondered why other composers they’ve met in their journeys sometimes can’t do the same.
Josh and Jon invite listeners to join them in talking about classical music they may or may not like…in a way they may or may not have talked about it before. Have you heard this?
Episode 9: Ligeti Split: Y’all, it is György Ligeti’s centenary, so the guys break from tradition and bring two works by the same composer (while still somehow maintaining their podcast thesis statement of loving on something wildly different).
Featuring performances of Ligeti’s "Two Unaccompanied Choruses" by the London Sinfonietta Voices and "Ramifications" by Ensemble Intercontemporain.
Episode 8: Dario Argento and Super Balls
Josh gets attacked by an 83-year-old composer and Jon brings a piece that looks as good as it sounds.
Featuring performances of Dominick Argento's Dover Beach Revisited by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Heather Stebbins's Things That Follow by Adam Vidiksis.
Episode 7: Pioneer Women and a 'Rabid' String Quartet
Josh takes the pod to the prairie via a work for choir and twelve guitars while Jon wants to talk to you about a very serious, important issue: packs of stray wild dogs that control most of the cities in North America (and show up during a passage in the piece for string quartet he brings).
Featuring performances of Nico Muhly's "The Night Herders" (from How Little You Are) by Conspirare, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, and the Texas Guitar Quartet (Craig Hella Johnson, conductor) and Cenk Ergün's Sonare by the JACK Quartet.
Episode 6: Disney Minimalism, Smoke, and Mirrors
Your hosts prove they're not too old for this sh*t by discussing two wildly different works. Josh makes a Disney memory through one of his favorite pieces of post-minimalism and Jon gives everyone a nerd class on convolution using a whiskey flask.
Featuring performances of Michael Torke's Boast Not of Tomorrow by the Netherlands Radio Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra (Edo de Waart, conductor) and Christopher Chandler's Smoke and Mirrors by the [Switch~ Ensemble].
Episode 5: Josh and Jon Do Scandinavia
The guys barrel through pieces that set them afire for music when they were but mere youths. Josh stumbles on the doctoral dissertation of one of his choral idols and Jon makes sure we all know the difference between Swedish and Norwegian metal.
Featuring performances of Knut Nystedt's O Crux by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir (Nystedt's own!) and Kaija Saariaho's Cendres by Mikael Helasuvo, Anssi Karttunen, and Tuija Hakkila.
Episode 4: Spirituals and Strings
Josh hips Jon to a choral banger and the guys go deep on Jon’s favorite articulation on wildly different pieces that both interact with folk traditions.
Featuring performances of Adolphus Hailstork's Crucifixion by the Brigham Young University Singers and Liza Lim's Ochred String by Soloists of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Episode 3: The Zappanale
Josh challenges Jon with the poetry from a choral classic and Jon (deservedly) just talks Zappa...Zappa...Zappa.
Featuring performances of Morten Lauridsen’s Contre qui, rose by The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists and Frank Zappa’s The Girl in the Magnesium Dress by Ensemble Modern.
Episode 2: Next! Song! Jon judges a (German) book by its cover and Josh falls hard for Lee Hyla’s music. Featuring performances of Wolfram Buchenberg’s "Vier geistliche Gesänge" by Cantabile Regensburg and Lee Hyla’s "Pre-Pulse Suspended" by Speculum Musicae.
Episode 1: New Music Hug Factory. Welcome to Have You Heard This? w/ Josh and Jon! In this opening episode, the guys start things off by talking about their own music a bit. Despite their stated mission, they can’t help but make fun of each other. Featuring performances of Josh’s "Musica animam tangens" by the University of Pretoria Camerata and Jon Fielder’s "Think" by the composer himself.
Welcome to Have You Heard This? w/ Josh and Jon. In this opening episode, the guys start things off by talking about their own music a bit. Despite their stated mission, they can't help but make fun of each other.