Not Brahms and Liszt

Alley in the Studio

Not Brahms and Liszt is my weekly radio program on MIT's community radio station, WMBR, featuring classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Stravinsky to Reich to Wolfe and onward. It is broadcast on:

Mondays from 4-5:30pm
88.1 FM, Cambridge, MA
wmbr.org

There's a 52-second promo for Not Brahms and Liszt. Thanks to Ken Field for engineering it!

For most people, "classical music" is Western art music from the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the symphony orchestra repertoire comes from this period, as do the playlists of classical music radio stations. Although this period of music has many gems, much of its music tends to bore listeners who grew up on rock and jazz. It's no wonder symphony orchestras are struggling, with ever-aging audiences listening to museum music. But classical music didn't die with the dawning of the 20th century, and the classical repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries is edgy, challenging, stimulating and beautiful — anything but boring. My show brings the modern classical repertoire — from Stravinsky to Tippett to Reich to Nyman to Wolfe and onward — to WMBR.

"Brahms and Liszt" is Cockney rhyming slang for "pissed", as in drunk.

Requests, feedback and information about upcoming concerts can be emailed to me at alley.stoughton@icloud.com. I'm @fullyabstract on Twitter.

New modern classical releases will be gratefully accepted and considered for airplay:

WMBR
C/O Alley Stoughton, Classical Music Director
3 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02142

Concert Calendar

Shows

(Click a show's top-link for the WMBR Track-Blaster listing, including a link to the show's audio (only available for two weeks).)

Alley Stoughton (alley.stoughton@icloud.com)