For the third consecutive year, listeners of WGXC’s “Overlooked” will be treated to performances of works by young composers from Bard College. With help from Bard College Conservatory of Music’s Associate Director of Production, Marc Mancus, and Graduate AV Assistant, James Chou, “Overlooked" host Rob Saffer has compiled recordings of works by young composers, performed in some cases by professional musicians, in others by Bard’s student musicians. Many pieces are the earliest works and/or first performances of young composers taught by many of Bard Music Program’s and Bard College Conservatory of Music’s esteemed faculty, including Joan Tower, Sarah Hennies, Angelica Sanchez, Missy Mazzoli, Jessie Montgomery, Erica Lindsay, George Tsontakis, Kyle Gann, and Matt Sargent. A special segment will focus on compositions - many using traditional Chinese instruments - from a concert by Xinyan Li’s students. For most of these composers, this will be the first time their music is being broadcast on radio. The show will feature works by 17 different student composers as well as a few by Bard alumni.

Playlist:

Prelude: Phenomena - Jackson Spargur

Vitus Labrusca (Overlooked theme) - Ben LaMar Gay

A Tribal Festival - Rita Ruibing Liu

The Cuddlefish - Sebastian Ford

No Time - Eli Winograd

Violin Sonata No. 1 - IV. The Light - Santiago Mieres

Bass Clarinet Solo - Anna Sheinkin

Sketchbook - Nate Padgett

Paravani for French Horn & Sheng - Ameya Natarajan

Dialectics for Tenor Trombone and Piano - Christina Ng-Leyba

Cobblestone for Sheng - Hengjian Zhang

Light of Yesterday for Dizi and Cello 1. Missing among the Stars II. Morning Market

Longing like the Wind for Viola and Konghou - Mochan Chen

Whisper of the Seven Strings for Guqin - Qizhi An

Reborn from the Ashes for Violin - Ziheng Xu

Burn Melt - Samuel Mutter (alumnus)

Mobiles 1 and 2 - Steve Bonacci (alumnus)

Puppet Dance - Daniel Zlatkin (alumnus)

The Admirable Campaign - Juan Diego Mora (masters student)

“Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and underplayed music of all varieties: jazz, improvisational, international, and other fringe music, ancient to future, familiar to rare, classic to weird. Broadcast live from Overlook Mountain in Ulster County, “Overlooked” offers programs focused solely on newly released music along with others that focus on specific musical themes or history.

Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation and Creative Music Studio. While living in Brooklyn for 25 years, he served on advisory boards for Celebrate Brooklyn! and Symphony Space. He also co-curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band with Mingus’s widow, Sue. Rob is also a judge for the annual Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll.