Have You Heard This? w/ Josh and Jon Joshua Shank and Jon Fielder

Episode 9: Ligeti Split: Y’all, it is György Ligeti’s centenary, so the guys break from tradition and bring two works by the same composer (while still somehow maintaining their podcast thesis statement of loving on something wildly different).

Featuring performances of Ligeti’s "Two Unaccompanied Choruses" by the London Sinfonietta Voices and "Ramifications" by Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Episode 8: Dario Argento and Super Balls

Josh gets attacked by an 83-year-old composer and Jon brings a piece that looks as good as it sounds.

Featuring performances of Dominick Argento's Dover Beach Revisited by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Heather Stebbins's Things That Follow by Adam Vidiksis.

Episode 7: Pioneer Women and a 'Rabid' String Quartet



Josh takes the pod to the prairie via a work for choir and twelve guitars while Jon wants to talk to you about a very serious, important issue: packs of stray wild dogs that control most of the cities in North America (and show up during a passage in the piece for string quartet he brings).


Featuring performances of Nico Muhly's "The Night Herders" (from How Little You Are) by Conspirare, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, and the Texas Guitar Quartet (Craig Hella Johnson, conductor) and Cenk Ergün's Sonare by the JACK Quartet.

Episode 6: Disney Minimalism, Smoke, and Mirrors

Your hosts prove they're not too old for this sh*t by discussing two wildly different works.  Josh makes a Disney memory through one of his favorite pieces of post-minimalism and Jon gives everyone a nerd class on convolution using a whiskey flask.

Featuring performances of Michael Torke's Boast Not of Tomorrow by the Netherlands Radio Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra (Edo de Waart, conductor) and Christopher Chandler's Smoke and Mirrors by the [Switch~ Ensemble].

Episode 5: Josh and Jon Do Scandinavia

The guys barrel through pieces that set them afire for music when they were but mere youths.  Josh stumbles on the doctoral dissertation of one of his choral idols and Jon makes sure we all know the difference between Swedish and Norwegian metal.

Featuring performances of Knut Nystedt's "O Crux" by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir (Nystedt's own!) and Kaija Saariaho's "Cendres" by Mikael Helasuvo, Anssi Karttunen, and Tuija Hakkila.

Episode 4: Spirituals and Strings

Josh hips Jon to a choral banger and the guys go deep on Jon’s favorite articulation on wildly different pieces that both interact with folk traditions.

Featuring performances of Adolphus Hailstork's Crucifixion by the Brigham Young University Singers and Liza Lim's Ochred String by Soloists of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.