Rearranged

Season 2, Episode 6: Eblis Álvarez

The man behind Meridian Brothers on the highly organized method he uses to produce his scrambled takes on Latin American musical traditions. Eblis Álvarez's music under

Season 2, Episode 5: Judah Adashi

We visit the composer's Peabody class on "Listening to Baltimore" and discuss his "intimate and epic" music. Baltimore-based Judah Adashi brings the community into his c

Season 2, Episode 4: Clare and Olivier Manchon

Clare and Olivier Manchon on their dedication to craft and never ever cutting corners in songwriting, arranging, and film scoring.Clare and Olivier Manchon met in a world

Season 2, Episode 3: Gabriel Kahane

How the prolific songwriter and composer draws on intuition and orchestration to create his musically and emotionally compelling songs and concert music. Gabriel Kahane

Season 2, Episode 2: Brandon Ross and Georgia Anne Muldrow

Georgia Anne Muldrow and Brandon Ross talk about their collaboration on the new Harriet Tubman album Electrical Field of Love and how their bandmates create in the moment

Season 2, Episode 1: Sean O'Hagan

How the High Llamas founder and in-demand arranger gets his sound. Rearranged host Lawrence Lanahan inteviews O'Hagan about the evolution of the High Llamas' sound, arran

EPISODE 5: Listen to What's Not There

The music arranger’s power to put a listener inside a song. Songwriters write the songs—duh—but arrangers determine how we hear them. To arrange a song is to make a seri

EPISODE 4: “Mere Mechanics”

Don’t mess with my melody! What happens when arrangers end up in court. Copyright law is supposed to incentivize creative expression, but court rulings on arrangements h

EPISODE 3: The Sound and the Song

How revolutions in recording technology remade the sound of the popular song. Studio technology has evolved from Edison's massive and unwieldy acoustic horn to an infini

EPISODE 2: “So Much for Originality”

Arrangements are often belittled as second-hand, second-class music. We’ll discover their potential for stunning originality.   A pianist and a scholar of Franz Liszt sho

EPISODE 1: "Listen to What's There"

In this pilot episode of Rearranged, Lawrence Lanahan explores the life and music of someone who helped Miles Davis create some of his most unforgettable music: arranger

Trailer

A preview of the podcast REARRANGED, wich considers the meaning we take from songs by examining an under appreciated aspect of their creation: the arrangement. Premieres