Access Utah Music

Tom Williams is in Moab for a special Access Utah program celebrating the Moab Music Festival. Our guests today include Maya Miro Johnson, Roydon Tse, and Connor Chee, along with John Weisheit, Co-Founder at Living Rivers and a Colorado Riverkeeper and Howard Dennis, Howard is a religious leader, a Flute Chief, and a clan leader from the village of Mishognonvi.

We revisit our converstaion about music in the movies! We're joined by Frank Lehman, Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University. He is author of Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema and recent essay, How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders.

We're once again joined by musician Mike Christiansen and author Tim Slover, bringing humorous and poignant readings for the season with an infusion of holiday music.

Craig Jessop is Music Director of the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra and he joins us for the hour. We talk music, the holidays, composers and upcoming concerts from the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra.

Today we’ll talk with Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson. In the first half today we’ll revisit our conversation from March with Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin.

On this episode we revisit our conversation with Hal Cannon to talk about (and listen) to his release, Nothin' Lastin'.

Today we talk about music in the movies! We're joined by Frank Lehman, Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University. He is author of Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema and recent essay, How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders.

Our guest is film producer and director Kerry Candaele, who is showing the first two documentaries of his Beethoven trilogy. We discuss the films as well as the global impact of Beethoven's music.

The American Festival Chorus and Orchestra is presenting the concert, The Melody of Humanity: A Celebration of World Music, and we're joined by USU choral conducting graduate students Chris Machado, Lawrence Laureano and Josh Musselman, along with Danny Beus, Executive Director of the Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection.

The USU Symphony Orchestra will celebrate Earth Day with a concert on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Daines Concert Hall on the USU campus in Logan. Joining this episode to discuss is Sergio Bernal, Robert Davies, Radeyah Kaplan, and Caitlin McLennan.