Devil’s Radio New York Performances

Mason Bates’s *Devil’s Radio* receives its New York premiere at David Geffen Hall, heard alongside Lutosławski and Szymanowski in a program led by David Robertson. The title nods to George Harrison’s 1987 song, but Bates reframes the reference in orchestral terms, treating the idea of “radio” as a field of signals, interruptions, and shared listening. In this context, the piece reads as a portrait of public sound in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Its most pointed gesture is how it turns noise and broadcast fragments into form without trying to smooth them away.