Cathy Swain Bates

WAHOO! celebrates a wide range of music on the ukulele by two-time GRAMMY Award winners Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer. Songs and tunes traverse multiple styles: western swing, calypso, jazz standard, Appalachian, Celtic and Tango. The duo's vocals are dreamy, their arrangements are masterful, and their playing shows a deep love of the ukulele and its vast possibilities.

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony release an exhilarating album of young, American composer Mason Bates' large-scale works for orchestra and electronica. Hear the first-ever recordings of his colossal "Liquid Interface" and the SFS-commissioned The B-Sides alongside Bates' supercharged work, "Alternative Energy". One of the most creative and ingenuous synthesists of our time, these works show Bates reimagining the dimensions of symphonic music by integrating jazz, techno, drum-n-bass, field recordings of a FermiLab particle collider, and more.

Cathy Berberian (Attleboro, Massachusetts, July 4 1925 - Rome, Italy, March 6 1983) was a composer, mezzo-soprano singer, and vocalist. From 1950 to 1966 she was married to Composer Luciano Berio, who deconstructed her voice in Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958) and wrote his Circles (1960) and Recital I (for Cathy) (1972) for her. In addition, she worked in close collaboration with Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Hans Werner Henze and Igor Stravinsky.