You'd like this take on Moonlight from a WNYC listener. let's listen to a little bit more.

You hear Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in there? That from Devon Press's Moonlight, reimagining Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata for all of its 2025 public song project.

And no, that's obviously not the Brian Laira show theme song, as we usually go into segments with.

What you've heard is a reimagination of that iconic melody created by WNYC listener Devon Press. His song, Moonlight, is among

the winners of this year's public song project, hosted by our colleague Simon Close, over at

all of it with Allison Stewart.

And he joins us now walking all the way across the hall to play more of the winning submissions

and to extend an invitation to you to the free Public Song Project concert taking place in Brooklyn tomorrow afternoon.

Hey, Simon. Welcome back to the Brian Ler Show.

Hey, Ryan. Good to be back.

We want to start by introducing us a little more to what we just heard? Sure. So that was

Devin Press. He was one of our six winners for the Public Song Project this year, and that was a song

that was, as you said, based on Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. He also threw in a little bit of Bizet's Habanera in there.

If you go to, I think that was sort of towards the end of the song that we heard. If you go

earlier, you can hear the melody that he uses, which also was sort of about Beethoven's life.

And he incorporated ideas of anxiety that Beethoven might have had as a composer in his lifetime.

Now, I thought the idea of the public song project was that people were suddenly free to do

their own versions and we could play them on the radio and everything of things that had

newly entered the public domain. They weren't protected by copyright anymore and that that

goes back about a hundred years in each case.

But Beethoven's stuff is a lot older than that.

So why did that show up in this year's public song project?

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