Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From the Composer’s Studio invites you to hear two of today’s most celebrated composers — Missy Mazzoli and Jessie Montgomery —provide a glimpse into their work. WFMT host LaRob K. Rafael moderates this conversation in which Mazzoli and Montgomery discuss their own work, each other’s music, and their hopes for bringing attention to the work of other women and people of color through their roles as CSO Mead Composers-in-Residence.
Co-produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and WFMT.
From the Composer’s Studio invites you to hear two of today’s most celebrated composers — Missy Mazzoli and Jessie Montgomery —provide a glimpse into their work. WFMT host LaRob K. Rafael moderates this conversation in which Mazzoli and Montgomery discuss their own work, each other’s music, and their hopes for bringing attention to the work of other women and people of color through their roles as CSO Mead Composers-in-Residence.
Co-produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and WFMT.
![Feeling the Commutativity of Multiplication [Math in Music Ep. 1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lYLhYDFIat0/mqdefault.jpg "Feeling the Commutativity of Multiplication [Math in Music Ep. 1]
2x3=3x2. Not exactly a groundbreaking mathematical discovery, but did you know composers like Bernstein, Dvořák, Bach, and Debussy used it in their music? In the first episode of WFMTs new digital series, Dr. Eugenia Cheng demonstrates how these composers used this mathematic principle to evoke feelings in their music.
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