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	Baker's Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians - Nicolas Slonimsky Fifth Edition, 1958 Downloads: 3,655
	Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians - Nicolas Slonimsky Downloads: 1,062
	Music Of The Latin America - Nicolas Slonimsky Downloads: 242
	Nicolas Slonimsky on the Funeral of Mozart in Vienna - Nicolas Slonimsky Excerpted from "Thin Air: Nicolas Slonimsky at 76" The view long was that Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave due to the hazards of a raging storm in Vienna during his funeral. Musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky tells how he debunked that theory. Ever on a quest for accuracy of detail in his Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Slonimsky pursued some of the largest musical questions of all time, often with unexpected results... Source: Other Minds Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; 20th Century Classical; New Music; Nicolas Slonimsky Downloads: 571 Average rating: (0 review)
	Nicolas Slonimsky at Berkeley Piano Club, 1971 - Nicolas Slonimsky In this lecture and demonstration, Nicolas Slonimsky covers topics such as polytonality, atonality, scales, the perils of introducing the music of Charles Ives and Edgar Varese to the Hollywood Bowl audiences in 1933, polyrhythm, and The Grandmother Chord. He then recounts comments made about composers by their contemporary writers, e.g., there are criticisms of Chopin, Wagner and Stravinsky. A review of his experiences with Performance Art follows and is not to be missed... Source: Other Minds Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Classical; Avantgarde Downloads: 1,779 Average rating: (0 review)
	Nicolas Slonimsky Eats Dinner, a dinner conversation about New Music and classical masters, 1971 - Nicolas Slonimsky In a three part series, the eminent musicologist, composer and conductor talks with Mrs. George Antheil, Charles Amirkhanian and Carol Law over roast duck at the home of Mrs. Antheil in Los Angeles, on December 28, 1971. Brace yourselves for a monologue that puts Spalding Gray to shame. Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995), whose career spans the period dating back to the mid-Twenties, is totally uninhibited by a microphone hanging off a chandelier in the West Hollywood apartment of Böske Antheil (190... Source: Other Minds Keywords: 20th Century Classical Downloads: 690 Average rating: (0 review)
	Nicolas Slonimsky Evening Concert, Russian and Soviet Music (1979) - Nicolas Slonimsky Charles Amirkhanian gives a brief background into the life and music of Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950), who composed during both Tsarist and Stalinist Russia. A recording of the composer's Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81 was aired (Finedar Records). What follows may be some of the most hilarious, but informative, moments in musicology ever broadcast. After Amirkhanian reads the section in the recently published Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (6th Edition) written by Nicolas S... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Documentary; 20th Century Classical Downloads: 725 Average rating: (0 review)
	Nicolas Slonimsky Speaks about Frank Zappa - Nicolas Slonimsky In these recorded comments by Slonimsky, his musical world (classical/avant garde) and that of Frank Zappa (popular/avant garde) came together primarily due to the publication of a book by Slonimsky on scales and harmonies that attracted Zappas attention. Slonimsky recounts his acceptance of an invitation by Zappa to play with his Rock Band. He also recounts how amazed he was when he observed Zappas scores for classical music which looked far out like something Edgar Varese would write, a compos... Source: Other Minds Downloads: 2,617 Average rating: (1 review)
	Nicolas Slonimsky, Speaking Of Music at the Exploratorium in 1987 - Nicolas Slonimsky Nicolas Slonimsky interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's Speaking of Music Series in San Francisco, March 12, 1987. Tune into an evening of Nicolas Slonimskys highly comic logorrhea. Host Charles Amirkhanian hardly needs to ask a question of his 92-year old Russian-born guest, the father of the grandmother chord. An erudite musicologist, conductor, composer, pianist, and author of many books including Music Since 1900, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, and Lexicon of M... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical Downloads: 509 Average rating: (0 review)
	Leo Ornstein Centenary Program, 1992 - Leo Ornstein, Nicolas Slonimsky Composer-pianist Leo Ornstein visits with Charles Amirkhanian on the occasion of his 100th birthday! Severo Ornstein, the son of the composer, is in the studio with Amirkhanian to provide commentary, while Leo Ornstein and another near centenarian, Nicolas Slonimsky, are interviewed by phone. The discussion centers on Ornsteins early history as a Wunderkind pianist in the 1910s, and his enormous output of music over nine decades of composing... Source: Other Minds Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Interview Downloads: 574 Average rating: (0 review)
	On Varese's Ionisation, 1973 - Edgar Varese, Nicolas Slonimsky, David Cloud This program was produced for broadcast on the 40th anniversary of the world premiere of Ionisation, a percussion work by Edgar Varese. Nicolas Slonimsky, who conducted that performance, reminisces about the event with David Cloud of KPFK. Recorded on March 6, 1973. Varese's music was one of the first pieces in Western Classical music history performed solely on percussion instruments. Using a variety of conventional (snare drum, bass drum) and unconventional sources (sirens, Lion's roar), the m... Source: Other Minds Keywords: Interview; New Music; Orchestral Music; Edgar Varese Downloads: 1,825 Average rating: (0 review)
	Nicolas Slonimsky at 76 - Thin Air: Nicolas Slonimsky at 76 A lively and engaging interview with the dean of musicological lexicography who visited KPFA studios and talked with Robert Commanday (S.F. Chronicle music critic) and Charles Amirkhanian of KPFA. Especially important discussions about Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ives by the first conductor ever to champion Ives, Varese, Cowell, and Riegger (in the early 30's). Composer Lowell Cross was also present... Source: Other Minds Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; 20th Century Classical; New Music; Nicolas Slonimsky Downloads: 699 Average rating: (0 review)
	Istorīi͡a russkoĭ opery : s 1674 po 1903 g. - Cheshikhin, Vsevolod, 1865- Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=kKQ5AAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8 Keywords: Opera Downloads: 27
	Istorīi͡a russkoĭ opery : s 1674 po 1903 g. - Cheshikhin, Vsevolod, 1865- Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=2D4QAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8 Keywords: Opera Downloads: 146
	"Essays before a sonata" - Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 "Written primarily as a preface or reason for the second pianoforte sonata-Concord, Mass., 1845" Keywords: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 Downloads: 7