![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | John Cage Considered: An Introduction
A tentative introduction and preliminary remarks about the music, aesthetics and phenomenon of John Cage. Recorded in 1965 this program contains the comments of Charles Shere on the life and music of the most famous of American avant-garde composers. The program, which relies on a 1964 New Yorker article about Cage, a catalogue of his works published by Peters Edition, and Cages own book of essays Silence, for its background information, starts with a description of Cages early education and car...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Lecture; Panel Discussion; New Music; Avant-Garde; John Cage; Charles Shere
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| Charles Shere Returns to KPFA
Specialists in New Music have long been associated with KPFA’s Music Department, be it John Rockwell, Alan Rich, Robert Erickson, Glen Glasow, or Charles Amirkhanian. But for intensity of production and richness of quality no term at KPFA was more productive than that of former Music Director Charles Shere who’s tenure at the station lasted from 1965 to 1967. Now the Music & Art critic for the Oakland Tribune, and a distinguished composer as well, Mr...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; New Music; Charles Shere
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| Speaking of Music: Charles Shere
Recorded on November 29, 1984 as part of the San Francico Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews American composer, critic, and former musical director at KPFA, Charles Shere, about his opera “The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even “. The opera, which is inspired by the Marcel Duchamp painting of the same name uses Duchamp’s notes for much of the libretto...
Keywords: Speaking of Music Series at the Exploratorium; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; New Music; Charles Shere
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