TRILLOQUY

Loki chats with conductor Dane Lam about his work on three continents and what it looks like to celebrate and preserve culture within different global contexts while expanding audience's perspectives on so-called classical music. Loki speaks to how the arts can be a tool to fight against gentrification. 
Dane Lam
Dane Lam leads the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra (Titan Symphony by Gustav Mahler)
"Hula" from the Polynesian Suite by Dai-Keong Lee
4West Closes in Harlem

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Peter Askim is transforming the way the next generation of artists are entering the orchestral field with a summer festival celebrated for its "pay what you can" model that eliminates what, for many, was a primary barrier to entry into this vital aspect of a musician's artistic and professional development. Peter joins Loki to talk about this festival, his entry into the world of conducting, and how he's centering music by immigrant women in his celebration of America's 250th.
Peter Askim
The Next Festival of Emerging Artists
Reena Esmail: Teen Murti
Peter Askim: Songs My Mother Taught Me
League of American Orchestras 
Andy Akiho
Erich Rieppel

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Joachim Horsley is a composer and performer whose fusion of Western European classical and Afro-Caribbean music has earned him praise and notoriety in the United States, Cuba, and beyond. He chats with Loki about his trajectory, his education in Cuba, and his approach to celebrating culture without tokenizing its aesthetics. Loki shares more on his recent engagement of an ensemble accused of appropriating Indigenous culture. 
Joachim Horsley
"Beethoven in Havana"
"Tropical Prelude"
Joachim Horsley Instagram

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Loki chats with founding member of the Kronos Quartet, David Harrington, about the group's work over the past 50 years and their new project, "Three Bones", honoring the 250th anniversary of America with music that highlights Native, Gullah, and immigrant perspectives and experiences.
Kronos Quartet
Three Bones
"Ya Habibi, Ta'ala"
White Man Sleeps
Nikky Finney's 2011 National Book Award in Poetry Acceptance Speech

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"America/Beautiful" is a project by pianist and arts advocate Min Kwon, in which she has commissioned a diverse group of more than 70 of today’s leading American composers to each compose a variation on “America the Beautiful.” Loki chats with Min about this project, her Center for Musical Excellence, and her nuanced view of what it means to take action toward a better America. Loki offers thoughts on his initial response to this project, and how dialogue gave him a more accurate view of it. 
Min Kwon
"American/Beautiful"
Center of Music Excellence
Daniel Bernard Roumain: “america, NEVER beautiful”
Kristjan Järvi: “Look up America”

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