A podcast from the Kimmel Center Kimmel Center staff http://blog.kimmelcenter.org Music news from the Kimmel Center Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA en-us 2007 Kimmel Center Blog jhollway@kimmelcenter.org clean http://blog.kimmelcenter.org/podcasts/kimmelcast_2.mp3 Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts A conversation with string quartet Ethel Kimmel Center Director of Programming Tom Warner engages ETHEL’s Mary Rowell in a conversation about who they are and their music. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:30:00 EDT Kimmel Center Presents’ Fresh Ink Series begins the season on October 13 at the Kimmel Center with a performance by the string quartet Ethel, described by the Guardian as “the fiercest string quartet this side of hell.” Listen in as Kimmel Center Director of Programming Tom Warner engages the quartet’s Mary Rowell in a conversation about who they are and why the do what they do, complete with musical samples. This is not your grandfather’s Schubert string quartet! Subscribe and tune in for this and more, including a conversation with members of Sō Percussion in January 2008 and composer Phil Kline in March 2008. 00:24:04 Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, Music, Arts http://blog.kimmelcenter.org/podcasts/kimmelcast_3.mp3 Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts A conversation with composer Phil Kline Kimmel Center Director of Programming Tom Warner talks with composer-guitarist Phil Kline about the inspirations for his compositions Zippo Songs and Fear & Loathing Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:30:00 EDT Kimmel Center Presents’ Fresh Ink Series final performance takes place on April 5 with a performance of Fear & Loathing: The Music of Phil Kline. Listen to the third Kimmel Podcast of the Fresh Ink Series for a conversation with composer-guitarist Phil Kline, as well as music from the program. Kline’s imaginative works delve into the American psyche and have been lauded by The New York Times as “brilliant American lieder for the 21st century.” His most recent song cycle, Fear and Loathing, was inspired by the hallucinatory works of American author and “gonzo journalist” Hunter S. Thompson. Also part of the program is the rock-influenced work, Zippo Songs, based on the poems by American GIs inscribed on Zippo lighters during the Vietnam War. These inscriptions contain a world of emotion that spoke purely and directly to me without the baggage tag of political commentary,” said Phil Kline on creating Zippo Songs, “I saw the poems as a vital little body of literature and began to think of a way to work with them as dramatic material, not propaganda." 00:14:05 Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, Music, Arts