We are looking back this week at some of our favorite interviews from 2022. If you didn’t already know, we posted over 50 interviews on our YouTube channel last year. We enjoyed them all. Here are the Classical Music Interview Highlights from 2022.
Soprano J’Nai Bridges talks about entering the world of the late composer Peter Lieberson and his late wife Lorraine Hunt Lieberson by singing his Neruda Songs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It’s a deeply personal and emotional work as she discusses.
Conductor Paolo Bortolameolli is a huge proponent for contemporary classical music works. If you know artist Blood Orange you wouldn’t necessarily think he’d be collaborating with Bortolameolli. But under his real name, Devonté Hynes, he writes precisely the kind of music that would be performed by a classical ensemble.
Bortolameolli talked about his passion for contemporary works, working with Hynes and more in our interview from this past summer.
Though written and recorded two years ago, Osvaldo Golijov‘s Falling Out of Time was finally performed live this year in a brief tour. We spoke with the composer about this deeply emotional work and his relationship to its themes of life, death and grief.
Late in the year we spoke with composer Juan Pablo Contreras about the world premiere of his new work, Lucha Libre! The Los Angeles Master Chorale commissioned the work. Though the premiere was delayed by COVID, Contreras was very excited that audiences were going to hear his unique work.
Those are our classical music interview highlights from 2022. Be sure to go to our YouTube channel to check out all of our interviews to date and to subscribe.
Check back tomorrow for our Jazz Interview Highlights from 2022!
Photo: J’Nai Bridges