The broadcasts frequently feature interviews with composers like Michael Torke, Frederic Rzewski, David Del Tredici and Pauline Oliveros, who talk about their lives and occasionally pound out excerpts from new pieces on whatever instrument is handy.
Correction: March 17 , 2004 Wednesday An article on Feb. 23 about the New York Philharmonic's experiment with a large video screen for the audience misstated the extent of the use of such screens by the Atlanta Symphony to show interviews with composers.
Ara Guzelimian, Carnegie's senior director and artistic adviser, will continue his series of onstage interviews with notable composers and performers, among them the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Ms. Saariaho, Bright Sheng and Magnus Lindberg and the performers Mr. Quasthoff, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mr. Harnoncourt and Ms. Uchida.
Interview with composer Irving Berlin about revising his song "They Like Ike" in the show "Call Me Madam".
Despite the self-described "disastrous" interview with composer Nobuo Uematsu and sound programmer Minoru Akao, in which he claimed to only want the job as a "stepping stone" in his career and admitted that he had never played many of Square's biggest games, such as the Final Fantasy series, Mitsuda was offered a position on the company's sound team in April 1992.
He also published a book, "Trackings: Composers Speak With Richard Dufallo," which included his interviews with 26 composers.
(Mr. Schaefer, the concert's host, conducted enlightening interviews with the composers and performers between the works).
The six well-attended presentations on Saturday were introduced through informal and often witty video interviews with the composers and librettists.
Other ensembles should steal the orchestra's idea of introducing new works through short filmed interviews with the composers, like the two by the filmmaker Jeremy Robins shown here.
The performances were interspersed with short films featuring interviews with the composers, who recounted their first experiences hearing Mr. Sondheim's music and their approaches to the composing project.
They hear live broadcasts of the Cleveland and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, interviews with contemporary composers and even, on April Fools' Day, broadcasts of a work by John Cage that consists of 4 minutes 33 seconds of silence.
