![[etree]](/images/mediatype_etree.gif) | Grateful Dead Live at Oakland Coliseum Arena on 1986-12-15 - Grateful Dead Touch of Grey CC Rider When Push Comes to Shove Beat It on Down the Line > Greatest Story Ever Told Loser Cassidy > Althea My Brother Esau Candyman Let It Grow Set Two Iko Iko Looks Like Rain Black Muddy River Playing In The Band > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Wharf Rat > Playing In The Band > Good Lovin' e: Johnny B. Goode Source: Master Dolby B Cass>Sonic Solutions via TC2000 @ 24 bits>SBM2 CD>CD > EAC[secure] > SHN Keywords: Soundboard; KPFA Downloads: 471 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | BB0641 James Baldwin: Living and Growing in a White World - Pacifica Radio Archives James Baldwin discusses living and growing in a white world in a talk to students at a predominently Black high school in Oakland, California. RECORDED by KQED at Castlemont High School, Oakland. BROADCAST: KPFA, 23 June 1963. Keywords: Baldwin; Pacifica; KPFA; Castlemont Downloads: 156 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Good Food from India With classical Indian music playing in the background, Anthony Gnazzo, sound poet and master Indian chef, offers recipes for cold-mixers and tondla leaves, bendi, buthi, moong-ambat, muluk, allu-vadi, and other Indian culinary delights. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Other Finds Downloads: 320 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Capricorn's Collision An excellent example of KPFA's experimental, free-form, late night, radio programing. Robert Moran and Howard Hersh serve up an eclectic mix of poetry, music, humor, political commentary, and inspirational musings. With the growing protests against the Vietnam War as the backdrop this program includes such characters as General Wastemoreland, General HersheyBar (plain chocolate, the nuts are in Washington), General Nuisance, General Eclectic, Captain Technology, and other luminaries... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Other Finds Downloads: 108 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Folk Music with Rolf Cahn: Rolf Cahn, Carl Granich & Judy Roderick in Concert at the Cabale In the Summer of 1963 Rolf Cahn presented a series of live broadcast’s for KPFA from the Cabale, a folk music club in Berkeley, California. In this program you will here excerpts from two of those shows. The first features Cahn on guitar and vocals accompanied by Carl Granich on guitar in the performance of a number of folk and blues standards, including an absolutely beautiful rendition of “Nobody Knows You When You Are Down & Out” with Granich providing some delightful guitar picking... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Folk Music Downloads: 16 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | IFStone on Vietnam 1965 - Pacifica Radio Archives I.F. STONE ON VIETNAM - SERIES: University of California at Berkeley Vietnam Teach-in, May 21, 1965| no. 2 - Talk on the Vietnam War. RECORDED at the University of California, Berkeley. BROADCAST: KPFA, 3 July 1965. (54 min.) BB2218.04 Pacifica Radio Archives. Keywords: stone; vietnam; berkeley; kpfa; pacifica Downloads: 193 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 5: Listener Call-ins The special all day broadcast celebrating the 40th anniversary of KPFA concludes with a three hour listener call-in segment, hosted by Charles Amirkhanian, who is joined by KPFA General Manager, Pat Scoot, and Pacifica Foundation Executive Director, David Salniker, and others. Caller comments range from glowing reviews of the station’s programing to sharp criticisms of the same. As always with KPFA, the listening audience is well informed and not at all shy about letting the station know what ... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Other Finds; Current Events Downloads: 22 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ferguson's Dictionary for Concrete Poets: The Four-Letter Words Internationally prominent Canadian intermedia artist Gerald Ferguson has compiled by computer a dictionary for poets who utilize words as material for composing visual (concrete) poetry. Here is his reading, recorded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, of “The Four-Letter Words” of his dictionary which lists all words from the Standard Corpus of Present Day American English Language Usage in order by the number of letters in each word... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Spoken Word; Poetry Downloads: 72 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Jazz at the Palace of Legion of Honor A live broadcast of a jazz concert, held on October 4, 1971 in San Francisco, featuring the Michael White Group, Anthony Braxton, and the Michael Nock Underground. After a brief introduction the Michael White Group perform a set of delightful music, most if not all of which can be found on the LP “Spirit Dance” (Impulse AS-9215). This is followed by Anthony Braxton on solo alto saxophone, playing in his unique style of free improvisation... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Jazz; Free Improvisation Downloads: 627 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Early American Music From a program first broadcast on November 30, 1972, Charles Amirkhanian presents a program of early American music, many taken from old, rare 78 rpm recordings. The program begins with Henry Hadley’s “Piano Quintet, Op. 50” followed by six versions of Thurlow Lieurance’s “By the Waters of Minnetonka: An Indian Love Song,” followed by several selections of music by John Knowles Paine. While there is a distinctive Native American melody at the heart of Lieurance’s song, most of the ... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Classical Music Downloads: 83 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Turk Murphy's Jazz Band in Concert Recorded live at Earthquake McGoon’s in San Francisco,Turk Murphy’s Jazz Band plays two sets of energetic, foot stomping, Dixieland and Ragtime jazz. Whether playing old standards by Jelly Roll Morton and Ma Rainey, or some of his own compositions, Turk Murphy’s trombone playing was always of the highest quality. A regular on the San Francisco jazz scene as well as something of an international star, Turk was the premiere performer of New Orleans style jazz in Northern California for nearl... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Jazz; Turk Murphy Downloads: 71 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Turkey Song “Turkey Song” is a form of inter-species music; a joint communication between three human beings and three hundred tom (male) turkeys. The tape that you hear is an edited version of over five hours of tapes recorded at the Willy Bird Turkey Farm in the hills outside of Santa Rosa. The producer of this piece, Jim Nollman, has been experimenting with musical communication with various animals for many years... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Other Finds; Interspecies Music Downloads: 204 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Underground Woman: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel by Kay Boyle Erik Bauersfeld and Lee Jenkins of KPFA interview poet, author, and political activist, Kay Boyle, about her 1975 novel “The Underground Woman”. The novel, which is semi-autobiographical, follows the life of classics professor Athena’s experience being imprisoned for protesting the draft as well as a later run-in with her daughter, who has joined a cult and tried to take over her mother’s house... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Literature; Interview; Kay Boyle Downloads: 12 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 1 Kay Boyle introduces a series of readings taken from the autobiography of the Italian American poet Emanuel Carnevali. Born to a morphine addicted mother and abusive father, Carnevali wrote poetry that spoke to the disillusionment he felt as an immigrant in America. He never seemed to hold down a job for very long and had a number of disastrous love affairs. Although well respected by such poets as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Carl Sandburg, Carnevali was never financially successful... Keywords: KPFA; Spoken Word; Literature; Poetry; Emanuel Carnevali Downloads: 32 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 2 Kay Boyle introduces a series of readings taken from the autobiography of the Italian American poet Emanuel Carnevali. Born to a morphine addicted mother and abusive father, Carnevali wrote poetry that spoke to the disillusionment he felt as an immigrant in America. He never seemed to hold down a job for very long and had a number of disastrous love affairs. Although well respected by such poets as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Carl Sandburg, Carnevali was never financially successful... Keywords: KPFA; Spoken Word; Literature; Poetry; Emanuel Carnevali Downloads: 66 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali: Part 3 Kay Boyle introduces a series of readings taken from the autobiography of the Italian American poet Emanuel Carnevali. Born to a morphine addicted mother and abusive father, Carnevali wrote poetry that spoke to the disillusionment he felt as an immigrant in America. He never seemed to hold down a job for very long and had a number of disastrous love affairs. Although well respected by such poets as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Carl Sandburg, Carnevali was never financially successful... Keywords: KPFA; Spoken Word; Literature; Poetry; Emanuel Carnevali Downloads: 49 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Saroyan: My Name Is William The reminiscences of renowned author William Saroyan about growing up in Fresno during the early part of the century. Charles Amirkhanian and Vic Bedoian present a collage of traditional Armenian music, readings from Saroyan's stories of Fresno experiences and the author's own radio biography exclusively made for this broadcast. (from KPFA Folio) Keywords: KPFA-FM; Other Finds; William Saroyan Downloads: 221 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Music Makes the World Go Round: A Tribute to Eddie Jefferson A retrospective tribute to jazz singer Eddie Jefferson (1918-1979). Jefferson was an innovator in the field of vocalese, in which words or a story line are written to replace the notes of famous instrumental solos from previous recordings by major jazz performers, such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and others. Jefferson’s lyrics were his method of paying homage to the composition’s soloist. His style influenced King Pleasure, as well as Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and more contemporary arti... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Documentary; Jazz; Eddie Jefferson Downloads: 357 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Kay Boyle: An 86th Birthday Celebration In honor of Kay Boyle’s 86th birthday, KPFA broadcast a program created by the American Audio Prose Library (AAPL),in which the novelist, poet, essayist, and political activist reads from one or her books and one of her essays. In the second half of the program she is interviewed by Kay Bonetti, about her writings, political philosophy, and life. Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, PN... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Spoken Word; Kay Boyle Downloads: 94 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Phil Elwood's Tribute to Turk Murphy Phil Elwood produced this memorial tribute to the great San Francisco jazz trombonist Turk Murphy, who died on May 30, 1987. Turk played in a number of Bay Area jazz bands during the mid part of the 20th Century and made a number of recordings as well. In this program Elwood plays a wide assortment of Dixieland influenced jazz tunes from the 1940s and 50s. Included are a couple songs recorded at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral in 1977 as well as several from Turk's concert at Carnegie Hall. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Jazz; Turk Murphy Downloads: 117 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 2: Erik Bauersfeld and a Dramatic Quarter Century The all day festivities celebrating KPFA’s 40th anniversary continues with a brief excerpt form the 10th anniversary program in which long time KPFA Public Affairs Director Elsa Knight Thompson ruminates on the groundbreaking political programing that was then, and is still today, a hallmark of the Pacifica stations. However the majority of this second segment of the 40th Anniversary Show is devoted to an interview with KPFA’s “Hero of the Hörspiel,” long time Drama and Literature Depar... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Current Events; Hörspiel Downloads: 113 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | John Adams on The Death of Klinghoffer Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer John Adams about his recent opera, The Death of Klinghoffer in which he defends his choice to dramatize the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and the subsequent murder of a disabled American. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Opera; John Adams Downloads: 133 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Raga: Indian Vocal and Gottuvadyam Music From a 1992 broadcast, host Prabha Gopal, presents a program of both Northern and Southern classical Indian vocal and instrumental music. The initial focus of the program is on examples of Indian vocal music from both the North and the South of the country, and yet each featuring lyrics sung in Sanskrit. The vocalists are Pandit Jasraj and Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, both recognized masters, and the contrasts between the two styles of singing are elucidated by the informative commentary of the hos... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; World Music; Raga Downloads: 136 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Interview with David Gitin Charles Amirkhanian and Eleanor Sully talk with David Gitin and his wife, Joyce, concerning the recently published first issue of Bricoleur Magazine, a volume of poetry edited by David Gitin. The first issue included poetry from Africa, as well as works by American poets and authors, including Michael McClure, Charles Amirkhanian, George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, and many others. Each of the Gitin's read examples of their poetry. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Poetry; David Gitin Downloads: 37 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | A Review of Robert Ashley’s “That Morning Thing” This review deals with a performance on Dec. 8, 1969, at Mills College, of Robert Ashley’s opera “That Morning Thing”. Charles Shere speaks out against the mainstream media’s reception of the opera as well as the rude reaction of some of the audience. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Opera; Robert Ashley Downloads: 60 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Folk Music with Rolf Cahn: Eric Von Schmidt in Concert, Boston 1960: Set Two Rolf Cahn introduces the second half of a recording of a concert of folk music by Eric Von Schmidt, held in the basement of the Boston YMCA, in 1960. Von Schmidt accompanies himself on guitar as he sings a selection of English and American folk songs, with a little bit of Blues and Gospel thrown in for good measure. A key figure in the folk revival movement of the early 1960s, Von Schmidt regularly performed with such other luminaries as Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Farina, Bob Dylan, and Rolf Ca... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Folk Music Downloads: 28 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Folk Music with Rolf Cahn: The Blues Music of Steve Talbot Rolf Cahn introduces a selection of Blues music, performed by Steve Talbot and recorded by Cahn in his home during a late night visit by the guitarist. Talbot, who might be best known as the person who along with Jorma Kaukonen came up with the name Jefferson Airplane, was a musician in his own right,noted for his understated and deceptively simple version of the Blues. Utilizing a variety of tuning and picking techniques Talbot performs a selection of songs made popular by such Blues legends as... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Folk Music Downloads: 14 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Folk Music with Rolf Cahn: Jo Mapes in Concert at San Francisco State College, Spring 1955 From a December 17, 1962 broadcast, Rolf Cahn presents a selection of folk and blues music by Jo Mapes, Reverend Gary Davis, and Mike Russo. The majority of the program is devoted to music by Jo Mapes, recorded at the San Francisco State College in the Spring of 1955 and eventually released on a LP from Bay Concerts. Jo Mapes was a classmate of Odetta, and an inspiration for Joan Baez, and yet despite her superior guitar playing, intuitive phrasing, and sweet voice, she never had quite the same ... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Folk Music Downloads: 39 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Music of the Venerable Dark Cloud A copy of a 1967 commercial recording of gamelan music by Mantle Hood and Hardja Susilo, released by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Institute of Ethnomusicology (IER 7501). Performed on the Javanese Gamelan Khjai Mendung (The Venerable Dark Cloud) by American and foreign students at the University of California at Los Angeles. This album was released along with a book with the same title. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; World Music Downloads: 246 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Beat and Bow: Tabla and Sarangi Performances From the Odeon recording “Beat and Bow” (MOAE-174) which was also later released by EMI (EALP-1312) three pieces of instrumental Hindustani music. The first work is for solo tabla and is the Teental rhythm (a cycle of 16 beats). The second piece is a Raga for sarangi and tabla and is also in the Teental rhythm. The third work is also for sarangi and tabla and is in the Deepchandi rhythm (a cycle of 14 beats)... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; World Music Downloads: 698 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | KPFA news of October 31 1968 - Pacifica Radio Archives KPFA news of October 31, 1968, read by Hanna Pitkin and Robert Holmes. Edition of news including President Johnson's announcement of a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam. (ca. 35 min.) BB0356 Pacifica Radio Archives Keywords: johnson; vietnam; war; president; holmes; kpfa; pacifica Downloads: 117 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | A Concert by the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra and Chorus A live recording of a concert given March 15, 1975 by the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Oakland Symphony Chorus, conducted by Joseph Liebling. This concert was held at the Paramount Theater in Oakland California and included pieces by Strauss, Brahms, Berloiz and Milhaud. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music: Classical Music Downloads: 284 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Morning Concert: Tribute to Betty Freeman In honor of her 70th birthday, Betty Freeman appears on KPFA's Morning Concert, hosted by Charles Amirkhanian. Freeman shares anecdotes from her long career, first as a budding pianist and then as a supporter of contemporary composers such as Harry Partch, John Cage, and La Monte Young. Freeman also describes her work as a photographer of composers, and gives her opinions about listening to and loving new music... Keywords: interviews; KPFA Morning Concert series; Betty Freeman; New Music Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Kay Boyle’s Amnesty International Benefit Reading Author, poet, and political activist, Kay Boyle reads an excerpt from her 1933 novel “Gentleman, I Address You Privately”, in a program recorded on February 21, 1987 at San Francisco State University during an Amnesty International Benefit in her honor. The novel, which Boyle partially rewrote after this reading, tells of the adventures of an English clergyman forced out of the Church for unspecified behavior, and who then seeks to eke out a fortune as a piano teacher... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Literature; Spoken Word; Kay Boyle Downloads: 14 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Frontiers: The Poetry of Kay Boyle Recorded at the KPFA studios on August 25, 1986 Kay Boyle reads a selection of her poems. One of America’s most important writers of the 20th century, and a close friend of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, and many others, Kay Boyle was one of the longest surviving member of those American artists and writers that lived in Paris during the 1920’s. She was also quite politically active in the support of pacifism and political prisoners and was even blacklisted during the ... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Spoken Word; Poetry; Kay Boyle Downloads: 2 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Radio Event No. 15: "30 notes ascending, 24 hours apart" A work by conceptual artist Mike Cohn in which at the beginning of each Morning Concert for the month of April a single note in sequential ascending order was broadcast. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Radio Event; Other Finds; Mike Cohn Downloads: 15 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | An In-Studio Reading by Charles Reznikoff, May 1975 Charles Reznikoff reads a selection of his poetry in a program originally recorded at the studio of WBAI in New York and produced by Susan Howe. Reznikoff, who died in January of 1976, was an American Jewish poet, playwright, and author, and the first poet to be called an Objectivist. Intelligent, clear, and not overly metaphorical, Reznikoff’s poems are often personal depictions of New York City life and the experiences of immigrants in the United States... Keywords: KPFA-FM; WBAI; Spoken Word; Poetry; Charles Reznikoff Downloads: 2 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | World Ear Project: Series 2, March This program is the second in a new series of ambient field recordings from around the world. The original World Ear Project series was broadcast on KPFA in the early 1970s, as the portable cassette recorder first made such an ambitious undertaking economically affordable. In this, the second series, the idea of collecting sounds from unique and unusual environments from all over the world remains the same, however the advances in field recording technologies, including digital recording, make f... Keywords: KPFA-FM; World Ear Project; Other Finds; Soundscapes Downloads: 21 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Tuesday Morning Club: An Hour in the KPFA Music Department Office Charles Amirkhanian fills in for the absent Julian White for this edition of KPFA’s Tuesday Morning Club. Rather than playing a selection of elegant classical music, Amirkhanian takes this opportunity to give listeners a feel for what the Music Department Office was like during a typical day in 1970. Fielding phone calls from Liam O’Gallagher, moving boxes, answering questions for staff and volunteers, its all here in this fascinating peek behind the KPFA curtain... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Tuesday Morning Club; Other Finds; Field Recordings Downloads: 10 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Wester Sun Day II A rather irreverent Easter Day program produced by conceptual artist, Paul Cotton and friends. Assembling a hodgepodge of popular music, strange readings, snippets of childhood stories, and sexually explicit poetry, Cotton, who is perhaps best known for appearing in public in a large bunny costume with his genitals showing, has produced here a sort of hippie celebration of all things Easter. This program was described in KPFA’s program guide as: “Eight Astro-Naught Rabb-Eyes Make a Leap of F... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Other Finds; Popular Music; Poetry Downloads: 65 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | An In-Studio Reading by Charles Reznikoff, March 1975 Charles Reznikoff reads a selection of his poetry in a program originally recorded at the studio of WBAI in New York and produced by Susan Howe. Reznikoff, who died in January of 1976, was an American Jewish poet, playwright, and author, and the first poet to be called an Objectivist. Unlike many of the great poets of the past, such as William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, and even Robert Frost, who looked to the natural world for their inspiration, Reznikoff often used city life as his main... Keywords: KPFA-FM; WBAI; Spoken Word; Poetry; Charles Reznikoff Downloads: 5 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Interview with Gladys Nordenstrom Charles Amirkhanian interviews Gladys Nordenstrom, composer and wife of Ernest Krenek, in which she discusses one of her songs "Time 24", which is based on a poem by the Czech poet Renata Pandulova. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Art Songs; Gladys Nordenstrom Downloads: 16 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Kay Boyle Day: Part 1 On February 19, 1988, as part of a fund-raising marathon, KPFA presented a nine hour festival of programing in honor of Kay Boyle’s 86th birthday, which included interviews with the poet, author, and political activist and readings of her work. One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Literature; Spoken Word; Kay Boyle Downloads: 14 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Kay Boyle Day: Part 2 On February 19, 1988, as part of a fund-raising marathon, KPFA presented a nine hour festival of programing in honor of Kay Boyle’s 86th birthday, which included interviews with the poet, author, and political activist and readings of her work. One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Literature; Spoken Word; Poetry; Kay Boyle Downloads: 17 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Interview of Alan Rich Will Ogdon interviews former KPFA music director and current music critic for the New York Times. Mr. Rich discusses his daily routine at the Times as well as describing the status of the the New York Times and the ability of its music critics to enhance the reputation and career of performing artists. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Pacifica Radio; Interview; Other Finds; Alan Rich Downloads: 62 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Decay: A Work by Douglas Leedy A rare recording of Douglas Leedy’s “Decay,” a work of musical theater composed in 1965 and recorded at a concert of the San Francisco Conservatory Artist Ensemble in the mid to late 1960s. The musical portion of the piece consists of a tape work assembled from a number of old records of piano music by Leedy and his collaborator, Ian Underwood, which was then played while live musicians accompanied it on piano and other instruments... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Music Theatre; Douglas Leedy Downloads: 13 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Morning Concert: Bernard Heidsieck Charles Amirkhanian interviews French sound poet Bernard Heidsieck. Heidsieck delineates what led him to work with tape, and discusses several of his works, including "Respirations et breves rencontres", "Canal Street, No. 5", and "Ravaillac Tu Connais?" (excerpts of these pieces are included in the program). Keywords: Sound Poetry; Bernard Heidsieck; Morning Concert; KPFA-FM Downloads: 188 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ode to Gravity: Rain-Drain by Karlheinz Martens Another auditory collage of poetry, music, stories and sounds from Charles Amirkhanian’s groundbreaking radio program, “Ode To Gravity”. In this edition you will hear Charles recite a poem by Nano Valaorites, some quiet jazz music, and a short story read by its author, Mort Bennett, among other assorted aural amusements. Don’t worry about the meaning of it all just sit back and absorb the sonic vibrations. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Ode to Gravity series; Music; Poetry; Soundscapes Downloads: 90 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ode To Gravity: Do Fraig Amors, etc... Another excellent example of an early Ode to Gravity program. This time it is an interesting mix of music and spoken word, ranging from Medieval Germanic choral music, avant-garde orchestral works, American popular music from the 1920s or 1930s, canary’s chirping, spell casting, bowling advice and other assorted sounds. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Ode to Gravity series; Music; Orchestral Music Downloads: 13 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ode To Gravity: Aspects of the Visionary Charles Amirkhanian talks with David Graham, Gerry Duncan, and Christopher & Teresa Venne about their publication “Attitudes 1”, a futuristic thought collection issued in mid-1971. The publication grew out of the groups interest in the work of British economist, Robert Theobald, but evolved past his theories of a guaranteed annual income, to embrace more Utopian and Spiritual theories, including reincarnation... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Ode to Gravity series; Lecture; Panel Discussion Downloads: 51 Average rating: (0 review) |
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