What is Radio Radiance?
YPC's new radio and internet program, Radio Radiance™, an NEA-funded project in collaboration with WNYC New York Public Radio and American Public Media (APM), made its broadcast premiere this year with four episodes which aired on APM's "Performance Today." Each program featured a performance by YPC and for the first time, interviews with the featured composers.

Radio Radiance™ expands the influence of YPC’s Transient Glory® commissioning series by combining live performance, recording and digital media to attract new listeners to new and innovative choral music.  It also introduces our award-winning music education program into classrooms across the nation. YPC recorded new music by Eve Beglarian, Gabriela Lena Frank, Robert Kapilow with sound artist Fred Newman, and Meredith Monk at WNYC’s new Jerome L. Greene Performance Center.  As a major component of the project, student and teacher listening guides accompany the performances and are available to be downloaded.

The second phase of Radio Radiance™ brought the program to six cities across the country through partnerships with choruses, schools and public radio stations who shared these exciting works with new audiences.

This year’s Radio Radiance™ program introduces four new works by Paquito d’Rivera, Michael Gordon, Michael Harrison, and Terry Riley.  Two of these are co-commissions and performed with the Kronos Quartet: Michael Gordon’s “Exalted” and Terry Riley’s “Another Secret eQuation.”  These four pieces will be performed by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City™ and broadcast later this year.