Barney Sherman
Classical Music HostBarney Sherman joined Iowa Public Radio member station KSUI in fall 2001. He hosts weekday and Sunday afternoon Classical programs and writes posts for iowapublicradio.org. He has written about music for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, and many other publications, and in books published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
A book he co-edited won the "Award for Excellence: Best Research in Recorded Classical Music" from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Another topic he has written about is Iowa, for The Atlantic. You can contact Barney at bsherman@iowapublicradio.org.
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On the last Friday of the month IPR Classical plays requests. Here are a few of our favorites that have been recommended by our audience. -
Iowa artists released over a dozen albums online or on disc in 2020, with topics ranging from Bach to the Dust Bowl to a solar eclipse.
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December is usually the biggest month for Iowa choirs. In the year of COVID, a few are giving concerts, mostly online.
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Did you know that the characters tweedledum and tweedledee are a reference to a beef between composers in the 1700's?
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Midway through 2020, here are four notable new releases exploring music outside the classical 'core repertory.'
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Decorah composer Ben Hippen studied music at Harvard in the 1980s, then programmed music software, then went in the 1990s to work on a feature film in…
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Even long-time Iowans might not realize how many composers our state has produced. Here are five videos of their music being played by other Iowans. Know…
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Wish You Could Travel? Let These Iowa Wind Bands Take You To Outer Space, Peru's Past And Home AgainFinding solace in a distant star, mystery in an ancient site and magic in returning to Iowa, today’s wind-band music takes us far beyond parades and pep…
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As you've probably heard, singer-songwriter John Prine passed away Tuesday, after being critically ill with COVID-19.Since his first album was released in…
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With concert-giving on hiatus, here's another sampling of the rich variety of choral music in our state.This week's batch of videos includes a motet from…
