Program Type: Streaming

This week on CMI Streaming’s New Classical channel, we feature holiday music by living composers. We’re all familiar with our holiday favorites, but contemporary composers are still writing new holiday pieces to celebrate the season.

In this week’s playlist, we feature Indianapolis-born composer, Orion R Farrar! He wrote most of his marches around the turn of the century like Bombasto and Indiana State Band, which are still very popular.

In this week’s playlist, we feature composer, pianist, and recording engineer, Michael Laurello. He works as a freelance composer, and as Manager of Recording Services and Technical Engineer for the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University.

his week’s playlist features Peruvian-born award-winning composer Jimmy López Bellido. An “undeniably exciting composer” (Opera News), with “a brilliant command of orchestral timbres and textures” (Dallas Morning News) and “a virtuoso mastery of the modern orchestra” (The New Yorker).

This week on CMI Streaming, we feature music by John Williams, an iconic American composer who has been nominated for 51 Academy Awards for his work on music for films dating back to 1967. His first win in the Best Original Score category came in 1975 with his score for Jaws. Just two years later, perhaps Williams most iconic work earned him another Oscar win, with his score for 1977’s Star Wars.