Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota – Q2 Music's podcast about the musical creative process – returns for its third season on Monday, March 6. Pre-game for the new season with a week of clips from the original WNYC radio program. Meet the Composer is available on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.

As we build up to the launch of our third season next Monday, March 6, we thought we'd look back at the original WNYC radio program Meet the Composer from the mid-'80s, hosted by the illustrious music critic Tim Page, currently a professor of music and journalism at USC. We'll share excerpts of his interviews with some of the most exciting figures in contemporary music, but before that we wanted to check in with Tim himself, a man for whom music has played an enormous force in his life, in his career, and even for his psychological well-being. We ask him how he found his way into music criticism, where that first Meet the Composer radio program came from, and what role music has played in his recovery after a recent traumatic brain injury.

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0:05—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 
1:15—Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring | Listen | Buy 
2:58—Maurice Ravel: La Valse | Listen | Buy
3:20—Luciano Berio: Sinfonia, mvt. III | Listen | Buy
3:22—Philip Glass: Music in Changing Parts | Listen | Buy
4:36—Dizzy Gillespie: Night in Tunisia | Listen | Buy 
7:18—Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, mvt. III | Listen | Buy 
8:05—Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème: Donde lieta uscì | Listen | Buy 
8:24—Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, mvt. III | Listen | Buy 
8:48—Elliott Carter: Of Rewaking | Listen 
9:02—Elliott Carter: Retrouvailles | Listen 
9:08—Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2, mvt. III | Listen | Buy