Classical Music

Today's Sound Perimeter celebrates the Fourth of July through the music of two remarkable American women composers.

Today's Sound Perimeter features two works by Canadian composers: "The Bessborough Hotel" by Nicole Lizée and "Pièce pour violon et clarinette" by Claude Vivier. While these pieces sound very different from one another, both composers invite us into imaginative and unexpected musical worlds.

Sound Perimeter from Lia Uribe is dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. Today, we listen to the music of two contemporary composers: Clarice Assad and Gabriela Lena Frank, brought together under the idea of Heroines, women whose music moves fearlessly across cultures and traditions with imagination, honesty, and vitality.

Ania Lewis, a cellist at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, joins the Curtis Chamber Orchestra for its Artosphere stop at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville Tuesday night.

Music director John Jeter previews the Fort Smith Symphony's 103rd season, "Dazzling Debuts," featuring Grammy-winning artists, two world premieres and a major recording project.

Today's Sound Perimeter features "The Currents" by Sarah Kirkland Snider and "Árbakkinn" by Ólafur Arnalds.

Today's Sound Perimeter listens across distance: two composers, both born in 1946, two different worlds, Vladimir Martynov and Mary Lou Williams.

On today's Sound Perimeter, Listening for Rain, host Lia Uribe found herself drawn to something simple and familiar: rain.

Today on Sound Perimeter, we are thinking about butterflies, those fleeting flashes of color that feel more like memories than things you can hold.

Today's Sound Perimeter features excerpts from "Nightscape" and "No-Man’s-Land Lullaby", both written by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga, works that linger at the edge of place and memory, where atmosphere gives way to deeper histories carried quietly in sound.