Supplemental Information: Episode 13
Reimagining Music Analysis: A Radio Broadcast of Johanna Beyer’s Music of the Spheres
Craig Peaslee (University of Miami)
Release Date: Thursday, July 3, 2025
Author's Website
Acoustic Recording and Score Analysis of Music of the Spheres (links to YouTube video)
Production Credits
Team Lead: Evan Ware
Production Lead: Zach Lloyd
Peer Reviewers: Nathaniel Mitchell and John Heilig
Onsite Engineers: Indigo Knecht and Spencer Long
Special Thanks: Megan Lyons and Jody Diamond
Performances
Violins: Benita Peych Dzhurkova
Viola: Mitch Cloutier
Percussion: Cory Fica
Voice Talent: David Ake, Christin Dahne, Andy Lorge, Nicholas Wray, Jenny Young, and Craig Peaslee
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Maria Tartaglia
Closing Music: Yike Zhang
Other Original Compositions: Johanna Beyer, Music of the Spheres, and Craig Peaslee, No Escape and Radio Station Call Sign
Bio: An award winning composer, Craig Peaslee's music has a strong foundation in jazz and continually finds him searching for new ways to incorporate jazz elements into works for the concert stage. Coming to the contemporary composition scene as a jazz performer and arranger, Craig’s compositions from traditional, dissonant, genre-bending and works that directly confront present socio-political issues in order to bring attention to the challenges facing the world we live in, Craig is passionate about creating new music that is accessible while simultaneously sounding new and invigorating. Craig is currently pursuing a DMA in Composition at the University of Miami.
Keywords: 20th century, Johanna Beyer, humor, performative analysis, public music theory