Mavericks r us

Check out American Mavericks, a truly fabulous online resource - you can listen to about fifty complete works by US composers in mostly live performances mostly from the San Francisco Symphony. Even better are two radio stations: the Crunchy Channel (Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt and other 'modernist'-types) and the Smooth Channel (Reich, Feldman, Meredith Monk, La Monte Young, etc). Both make fascinating listening. And while I'm on about interesting online radio stations, check out ArtsJournal blogger Kyle Gann's 'Postclassical' station. I don't always see eye to eye with him on issues dealing with classical music, but he picks some fascinating music