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Electroacoustic music by Will Gay Bottje, Victoria Cheah, Jacob Druckman, Frank Horvat, Molly Joyce, Angélica Negrón & Chloe Upshaw - featuring Gary Dranch, Laura Lentz, Roberta Michel, Ju-Ping Song & Sharlene Wallace - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (1/13/25) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #WMBR #ModernClassical #Electroacoustic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Roberta Michel’s New Focus Recordings album “Hush”, featuring a photo of a light green plant on a black background.

Cover of Frank Horvat and Sharlene Wallace’s I Am Who I Am Records album “Trees.Listen”, featuring an abstract painting of a tree with the sky in brilliant reds and oranges.

Cover of Laura Lentz’s Blue on Blue Records album “Prismatic/Plasmonic”, featuring a colorful graphic of wave-like shapes separated by a slash with “Prismatic” to the top left in reds and “Plasmonic” to the bottom right in greens/blues.

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Chamber music for and with woodwinds by Nilo Alcala, Tyson Gholston Davis, Gabriela Ortiz, Cody Ray, Timothy Schmalz & Sungmin Shin - featuring Todd Gaffke, Kyle Jones, Hannah Hammel Maser, Norman Menzales & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (1/6/25) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #WMBR #ModernClassical #ChamberMusic #WindInstruments #Woodwinds

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @NeumaRecords

Cover of Kyle Jones’s Neuma Records album “Dualities”, featuring two sets of concentric circles in shades of purple and blue.

Cover of Norman Menzales’s Ravello Records album “Panoramas”, featuring a painting of people working rice fields with a lush landscape behind.

Cover of Todd Gaffke’s Neuma Records album “Locally Sourced”, featuring an abstract painting of a street in a town in bright colors.

Cover of Timothy Schmalz’s Navona Records album “Sonata for Flute and Piano”, featuring an image of clouds in a dark sky.

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Music with voices by Kyle Brenn, Peni Candra Rini / Andy McGraw, Kate Soper & Christopher Trapani - featuring too many musicians to list here - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (11/18/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #Cambridge #WMBR #WomenComposers #VocalMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Kate Soper’s New Focus Recordings album “The Romance of the Rose”, featuring a garish cartoon of the characters in the opera.

Cover of Christopher Trapani’s New World Records album “Noise Uprising”, featuring a photo of the horn of a record player from the 1930s maybe, with the sea in the background.

Cover of Kyle Brenn’s Cantaloupe Music album “the shape of a child”, featuring a painting with a flock of white birds (doves?) flying in different directions but kind of in a circle, over a blue background suggesting water.

Cover of Peni Candra Rini’s New Amsterdam Records album “Wani” featuring a graphic of a woman’s face and upper body with broad splashes of yellow over her.

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Thanks to everyone who supported WMBR during our annual fundraising drive. We are so excited to have met - and exceeded - our goal!

If you were meaning to donate, it's still possible to do so via our secure donation page: https://www.wmbr.org/fr/pledge2024.php

There are some cool premiums to choose from. And the donation portal will be up for the next week.

#Boston #Cambridge #Radio #WMBR #Fundraising

Donation meter with the needle in the red zone of more than $100K, and displaying the total of $118,517.34.

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This is Day 7 - the final day! - of WMBR's annual fundraising drive, the one time in the year we ask you to consider supporting our programming.

We are an all-volunteer station - even the electrical and computer engineers work for free - and although MIT provides our space and electricity, our operating expenses are entirely covered by our listeners.

You can donate via our secure donation portal at: https://wmbr.org/donate

#Radio #Boston #Cambridge #WMBR #MIT

Artwork of the WMBR Pullover Hoodie, featuring a beaver (MIT’s mascot) wearing dark sunglasses.

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This is Day 4 of WMBR’s annual fundraising drive.

Among our donation premiums, we offer an exquisite white fleece bathrobe, tastefully embroidered in celebration of veteran disk jockey Ré Antoine’s 40th anniversary deejaying For Your Pleasure (tonight at 10pm!).

You can support us via our secure donation portal: https://wmbr.org/donate

#Boston #Cambridge #Radio #WMBR

Image of a woman luxuriating in the For Your Pleasure bathrobe, next to a bathtub - with the caption:

For your PLEASURE Indulge yourself or your special one for WMBR's fundraising week. "Put a log in the fire, light a candle, get a libation, dim down the lights..."

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Music for WMBR Fundraising by Jenny Beck, Douglas Boyce, William Brittelle, Christopher Cerrone, Daniel De Togni, Judd Greenstein, Missy Mazzoli, Scott L. Miller & Aaron Jay Myers - featuring A Far Cry, Yvonne Lam, Awadagin Pratt, Roomful of Teeth, Transient Canvas & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (11/6/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #WMBR #Fundraising

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords

Cover of Yvonne Lam’s Blue Griffin Recordings album “Watch Over Us”, featuring a graphic of two eyes in white over a blue background.

Cover of Jenny Beck’s New Focus Recordings album “Up To The Surface”, featuring a photo of a woman’s head and torso, with a mirror image of the same joining her just above the eyes from above, dappled with blues and purples, all on a black background.

Cover of Aaron Jay Myers’s Nema Records album “Late Night Banter”, featuring a cover image that looks like a closeup of a distressed surface.

Cover of Roomful of Teeth’s New Amsterdam Records album “Rough Magic”, featuring a graphic of a woman standing on an island with the air around her fragmenting into colorful particles.

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You too can leave me a snarky message if you donate to WMBR in support of my modern classical music program, Not Brahms and Liszt!

Visit https://www.wmbr.org/fr/pledge2023.php and check out the cool premiums!

#WMBR #Boston #Cambridge #CollegeRadio #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical

Closeup of comment about my program on a fundraising spreadsheet: “Most of the music Alley plays on her show gives me a headache (she’s my wife.)”

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