Amanda Sewell
Music DirectorDr. Amanda Sewell joined the staff at Interlochen Public Radio in 2015 and has served as the music director since 2019.
Sewell manages the music staff and programming at Classical IPR.
Since 2018, Sewell has overseen the addition of archival recordings of Interlochen student performances to IPR's broadcast library. She also hosts and produces The Interlochen Collection, a weekly program featuring those archival recordings.
Her first book, "Wendy Carlos: A Biography," was published by Oxford University Press in 2020 and reviewed favorably by outlets including Kirkus, the Washington Post and the Guardian. Critic Tim Page, writing for the Wall Street Journal, called Sewell's biography "a happy rarity among academic arts books - a grounded, thoughtful, appreciative study that maintains focus on its subject and her milieu, all the while paying the reader the courtesy of elegant prose."
Sewell's musicological scholarship has also appeared in the Journal of the Society for American Music, the Journal of Popular Music Studies and the Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop.
She holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
A respected member of the musicological scholarly community, Sewell is often invited to give keynote addresses and lead workshops pertaining to her work in public radio.
She can be reached by emailing amanda.sewell@interlochen.org
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On this week's program, hear music chosen by Hazel, Grace, Ricky, Fenton and Annamae.
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Hear three works conducted by Helen Quach, the first woman ever to conduct the World Youth Symphony Orchestra.
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Following Kate Botello's departure from Classical IPR, we're taking a different approach with Kids Commute for awhile.
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Revisit a 1943 radio broadcast from Interlochen's National Music Camp featuring both Ferde Grofé and Percy Grainger conducting performances of their own music.
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Classical IPR will bid farewell to host Kate Botello in October and make some changes to the programming schedule.
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There are such different ways classical music audiences can show their appreciation for the music - perhaps silently, perhaps by clapping. What happens, though, when concert attendance ends up being about "the rules"?
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Fall is in the air this week, with autumnal music selections from Antonio Vivaldi to Frank Sinatra.
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Hear highlights from trombonist Ava Ordman's career - from Interlochen camper to Grand Rapids Symphony principal to Michigan State University professor
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Hear three-quarters of a century of Interlochen Arts Academy and Arts Camp musicians perform orchestral masterworks by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Double bassist Paul Erhard and pianist Alejandro Cremaschi are presenting a unique recital of tango-inspired music in northern Michigan this week.