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	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)
	Morning Concert: Chapel Court and Countryside - The Bach-Beethoven Connection Music of J.S. Bach and his sons, C.P.E, Bach and the “English” John Christian Bach, and their influence on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, all in performances which attempt to approximate the sounds that audiences of the period might have experienced. Some listeners will prefer these performances, others will not; yet they all will offer insights into how the majesty of Bach led to the magic of Mozart... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Music; Classical Music Downloads: 274 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Emily Dickinson, Maria Callas, and Jennie Tourel Host Sarah Cahill presents a diverse number of musical settings of poems by the renowned American poet Emily Dickinson. Juxtaposed settings by Aaron Copland, John Adams, George Perle and Ernst Bacon reveal each composer’s unique approach to handling Dickinson’s enigmatic work. While Adams’s well-known “Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson” is featured in its entirety, seldom-heard work by Perle and Bacon offers a different take not only on the text, but on the author’s status as hermit-po... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Music; Art Songs Downloads: 423 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Prospero's Pens Fountain pens were the early 20th Century equivalent of the laptop computer. Allowing individuals the ability to write without being tied to a desk and inkwell, this unique American invention came to symbolize literacy for the man or woman who owned and carried one. Recently, as computer technology has threatened to wipe out the individual personality of the handwritten word, hoards of collectors have rediscovered the joy of writing with new and vintage instruments which can vary the width of th... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Other Finds; Fountain Pens Downloads: 105 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Interview with Eliane Radigue This edition of The Morning Concert features Parisian composer Eliane Radigue. Host Charles Amirkhanian explores Radigue’s background as a student of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, her compositional technique involving synthesizers and tape recorders, and her life as a composer and Tibetan Buddhist. Radigue discusses the compositional and performing processes involved in her "combinatory" music, and explains how she has adapted to the lack of acceptance of her music in Paris... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; Soundscapes; Eliane Radigue Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Carolie Shoemaker Carolie Shoemaker, composer, vocalist, and performance artist, hails from Seattle, where she has made a significant reputation as an innovative personality on the new music scene. Charles Amirkhanian interviews the visiting musician, who introduces selections from her work, including Yo(u) Tarzan, Stitch in Time, and other pieces. (from KPFA Folio) Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; Popular Music; Jazz; Carolie Shumaker Downloads: 15 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Criticism of San Francisco Chronicle Music Critics Charles Amirkhanian discusses the politics of new music in the Bay Area, with reference to the unsympathetic criticism, leveled at avant-garde artists such as John Cage and Merce Cunningham, by music critics at the New York Time and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Amirkhanian argues that while Bay Area audiences clearly support the radical styles of the avant-garde, the local papers of note only employ music critics that favor the contemporary classical music of more academically oriented... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Lecture; Panel Discussion; New Music Downloads: 17 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Charles Hamm on the Evolution of Popular Music Charles Hamm, noted historian and musicologist specializing in American music both serious and popular, visited KPFA in October 1980. In this program Hamm discusses developments in South African and American popular music with Charles Amirkhanian and Chris Strachwitz, illustrating his comments with many recorded examples. Hamm, who has been involved with the study of Zulu popular music in particular reports on what he discovered during a trip to Africa... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; Popular Music; World Music; Charles Hamm Downloads: 13 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Discussions with Paul Dresher, Gerald Oshita, and J.D. Parren From a recording made in May of 1991, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Paul Dresher about his theatrical production, “Pioneer”, which "celebrates and exposes American explorers and the myths of the pioneering spirit." Several songs from the production are also heard. The two also discuss the difficulties in portraying offensive attitudes such as racial bigotry and the history of American colonialism... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; Music Theatre Downloads: 6 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Ivan Wyschnegradsky: A Memorial Tribute On September 29, 1979, Ivan Wyschnegradsky died in Paris at the age of 86. Only in the last two years of his life did he become widely recognized in Europe for his contributions to the repertoire. Since the early 1920s he had composed in various microtonal systems in an attempt to expand the possibilities of musical expression. Presented in this program is the first American broadcast of Wyschnegradsky’s early (1916-17) mystical work “La Journee de l’Existence”... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; Orchestral Classical; Microtonal music; Ivan Wyschnegradsky Downloads: 128 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: An Interview with Robert Hughes Recorded on December 16, 1980, Charles Amirkhanian interviews musician, composer, and conductor Robert Hughes. Topics discussed include working with Laurie Anderson on the world premiere of her work "Born, Never Asked". Fans of Anderson's later popular albums will recognize many of the musical themes running through this piece. The recording of the piece, made on May 17, 1980, features Anderson performing with the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, an award winning group which was led by Hughes f... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; New Music; Performance Art; Robert Hughes Downloads: 31 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: An Interview with Janice Giteck Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Janice Giteck about her career and an upcoming concert with the SF Symphony. Ms. Giteck began her career as a Bay Area composer and teacher at UC Berkeley, and later became a member of the faculty at the Cornish Institute of the Arts in Seattle, WA., She was back in the Bay Area for the world premiere of her orchestral work Tree, which was to be played by members of the San Francisco Symphony under Edo de Waart on the New and Unusual Music series... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; New Music; Chamber Music; Janice Giteck Downloads: 58 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: A Visit With Frederic Rzewski Charles Amirkhanian and Russ Jennings are joined in the KPFA studio by Frederic Rzewski, an American composer and performer, who has spent much of his adult life living in Rome and Brussels. Rzewski was a founding member of the radical, electronic, music group, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), and the composer of a famous set of piano variations based on Sergio Ortega protest song “El Pueblo Undio Jamas Sera Vencido”... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; Frederic Rzewski Downloads: 26 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Kermit Lynch: Adventures on the Wine Route Take a journey through the vineyards of France to the honky-tonks of America. Charles Amirkhanian talks with Kermit Lynch, Berkeley California based, wine importer extraordinaire, on the subject of French wines and the adventures in finding them. Mr. Lynch has documented his experiences in the book, “Adventures on the Wine Route: A Winebuyer’s Tour of France”. This book, which reads like a prose fantasy in parts, is a most engaging compilation of stories on the subject, and it has received... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; Popular Music; Kermit Lynch Downloads: 8 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: John Rockwell In March 1983, Knopf Publishers of New York released the controversial book ALL AMERICAN MUSIC: Composition of the late 20th Century, by New York Times music critic John Rockwell. On March 14, 1983, live on the KPFA Morning Concert, Charles Amirkhanian talked with Rockwell about this book and the various composers featured, including the range from Milton Babbitt to Neil Young and Phil Glass to Ornette Coleman... Keywords: All American Music; John Rockwell; Knopf Publishers; Morning Concert Series; composition; music critics; New York Times Downloads: 159 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Matthijs Vermeulen Han Reiziger, the Music Director of VPRO, presents a program of music by Dutch composer Matthijs Vermuelen. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Music; 20th Century Classical; Matthijs Vermeulen Downloads: 21 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Composer Karel Husa Born in Prague in 1921, composer Karel Husa won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1969, for his third String Quartet. On February 7, 1975 he was in Berkeley to attend a conference of college band directors and stopped by the KPFA studio to talk with KPFA Music Director Charles Amirkhanian and Charles Shere, music critic with the Oakland Tribune. The three of them discuss the phenomena of university bands and how they are a breeding ground for young and enthusiastic wind players, who should ideally... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; Karel Husa Downloads: 83 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: The Musical Expression of the Gay Experience In commemoration of the Stonewall Rebellion and of Gay Pride Week, Wood Massi presents music, writings, and interviews about the gay experience. The program focuses on 20th century vocal music and includes works by Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and others. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Music; 20th Century Classical; Art Songs; Wood Massi Downloads: 120
	Morning Concert: John Cage - In Celebration of his 65th Birthday John Cage was undoubtedly the 20th Century composer who did the most to change the definition of the word “music”. In this program dedicated to Cage's work, which first broadcast on the composer's 65th birthday, Charles Amirkhanian presents a selection of his music which will attempt to dispel the popular notion that Cage’s philosophy of music is more interesting than the actual substance of his compositions... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; New Music; John Cage Downloads: 116 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Armenian Martyr's Day Charles Amirkhanian commemorates the genocide of the Armenian People by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 with music by the Chancel Choir of Pilgrim Armenian Congregational Church in Fresno California. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; Classical Music; Armenian Music Downloads: 205 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Han Reiziger and Classical Dutch Music, 1978 Charles Amirkhanian interviews Han Reiziger, Music Director of Radio VPRO in Holland, who produced a series of Morning Concerts for KPFA in 1974-75 during his exchange visit here. Reiziger introduces new recordings of Dutch music and comments on recent musical developments in Europe. (from KPFA Folio) Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; Classical Music; Jazz Downloads: 92 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: The Music of Tim Souster English composer, Tim Souster, visited the San Francisco Bay Area in 1978 in order to produce a new composition at Stanford University’s internationally renowned computer music center, and during his stay happily agreed to be interviewed on KPFA. Charles Amirkhanian introduces Souster and his music during the course of a lively program, recorded at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Center on October 3, 1978... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; Tim Souster Downloads: 18 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Interview with Philip Corner From January 4, 1979, Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Phil Corner. Born April 10, 1933 in New York, Corner studied briefly with Olivier Messiaen in Paris in 1955, and in 1958, at the New School for Social Research, he attended John Cage’s class which also included such distinguished budding artists as Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, and others who would make their marks in the lively East Village scene of the 1960s... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; New Music; Philip Corner Downloads: 50 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: An Interview with Hans Moldenhauer Ron Erickson interviews musicologist Hans Moldenhauer, who with his wife Rosaleen, has published a book on Anton Webern. Moldenhauer has also collected a significant archive of documents, manuscripts, and musical scores that encompass the history of music from the Middle Ages through the 20th Century, including a vast amount of materials pertaining to Webern and Schoenberg. The program concludes with a performance of the Spring and Summer concertos from Darius Milhaud’s “Four Seasons” take... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; Hans Moldenhauer Downloads: 177 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Nicolas Slonimsky A live guest appearance on KPFA by Los Angeles music lexicographer and former conductor Nicolas Slonimsky. He talks with KPFA's Charles Amirkhanian about his family roots, superannuation, Varese, Ives, semism, pandiatonicism, and the extreme avant-garde in music. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; New Music; Avant-Garde; Nicolas Slonimsky Downloads: 82 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: An Interview with Leo Smit After listening to “In Woods for oboe, harp, and percussion” by American composer and pianist Leo Smit, Charles Amirkhanian then interviews the composer about his career and his relationship with other composers of the first half of the 20th century. Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; Leo Smit Downloads: 98 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: An Interview with Jerry Hunt Charles Amirkhanian interviews Dallas composer Jerry Hunt, who was scheduled to give a concert of live-electronic music soon after this program. The deviser of the enchantment procedure piece "Sur (Doctor) John Dee" will introduce live radio performances of his "Quaquaversal Transmission (Phalba overlay)," and Harmand Plane (reflex), as well as other selections such as "VOLTA (Kernal) In the middle of the interview with Hunt, electronic music composer Ivan Tcherepnin calls in to discuss his piec... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; Jerry Hunt Downloads: 121 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: An Interview with Charlemagne Palestine In this brief interview with Charles Amirkhanian, recorded on Nov. 20, 1980, composer Charlemagne Palestine discusses how his early minimal drone works were a reaction to the dense compositional style of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, but have since evolved beyond basic minimalism to embrace a more complex sonority. He then goes on to give a description of his string piece for 11 performers, “Birth of a Sonority”, as well as his pieces for the Bösendorfer piano... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; Charlemagne Palestine Downloads: 24 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: John Adams: Harmonium One of the big hits of the 1980-81 San Francisco Symphony season was the world premiere of a work by Bay Area composer John Adams, a Harvard graduate now teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His settings of texts by John Donne (“Negative Love”) and Emily Dickinson (“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” & “Wild Nights” ) for chorus and full orchestra has set a new direction for the course of repetitive (or minimal) music, a style initiated by Steve Reich, Terry Riley, P... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; New Music; Minimalism; John Adams Downloads: 534 Average rating: (0 review)
	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 Downloads: 158 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Collected Audiophonies A program of avant-garde sound poetry and music by Charles Amirkhanian and Anthony Gnazzo, featuring a collection of their recent and past compositions. Interspersed among the formal pieces are bits of sound collage and Gnazzo's commentary on his career retrospective slide show. Also this morning Tony Gnazzo, who had recently announced his retirement from composing avant-garde music, and who has not been seen at a concert of new music for over fourteen months, presents his seminar on retirement ... Keywords: KPFA; Morning Concert series; Sound Poetry; Interview and Music; Anthony Gnazzo Downloads: 192 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: The Music of Peter Sculthorpe Peter Sculthorpe (born April 19, 1929, in Launceton, Tasmania) is one of the most renowned composers living in Australia. His informed incorporation of Asian musical elements in his own output makes for a subtle and remarkable blend of styles and sonorities, sensitively accomplished. In San Francisco, his music has been championed by the Kronos Quartet, and on a visit to the Bay Area in 1983, in order to witness the premiere of a piece composed for that ensemble, Sculthorpe talked with Charles A... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical Music; Peter Sculthorpe Downloads: 177 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: A Concert In Honor of Terry Riley on his 50th Birthday In San Francisco in 1964, the world premiere of Terry Riley's "In C" spawned a movement that literally has changed the face of modern music. "In C" was the first popular piece of what has come to be known as minimalist music, consisting of slowly evolving repetitive patterns. Since then, Riley's compositional style has gone through several incarnations. His contribution to modern music has always been a source of stimulation... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Music; New Music; Minimalism; Terry Riley Downloads: 459 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Gavin Bryars Charles Amirkhanian interviews British composer Gavin Bryars and plays a selection of his music during a pledge marathon week at KPFA. Bryars, born in Yorkshire in 1943, is one of a group of British experimental composers interested in minimal yet consonant music. He has composed for the theater and dance, as well as for the concert hall, and has written three full-length operas. In this program you will hear three excerpts of his work, including his “Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet” with i... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; Gavin Bryars Downloads: 124 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: John Adams Composer John Adams, who was working on his opera, Nixon in China, talks with Charles Amirkhanian on the state of contemporary music. Interspersed in this free-ranging conversation are examples of music brought by both Adams and Amirkhanian to illustrate the topics discussed. Adams' composition, Harmonielehre, commissioned and recorded by the San Francisco Symphony under Edo de Waart, had just been released... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; New Music; Minimalism; John Adams Downloads: 269 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Vincent Plush Composer Vincent Plush, whose music in his native Australia enjoys a popularity akin to that of our own John Adams here, visits the KPFA studios to discuss his latest orchestra piece, "Pacifica", premiered June 14, 1986 by the Sydney Symphony under the direction of Zdenek Macal, at the Sydney Opera House on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of ABC-FM radio. Plush, born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1950, introduces recent important music of other Australians and talks about the upcoming p... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; Vincent Plush Downloads: 75 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Brecht Composers - A Musical Brecht-fest Russ Jennings is joined by theatrical director R. G. Davis in a program dedicated to the various composers that worked with Bertolt Brecht. Davis describes the evolution of Brecht’s political philosophy and how that was reflected in the composers he chose to work with. Particular attention is paid to the period of 1927 to 1933 which saw Brecht’s most successful collaborations with Kurt Weill give way to the more Marxist influenced agitprop theater he created with Hanns Eisler... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; Opera; Music Theatre; Bertolt Brecht Downloads: 168 Average rating: (0 review)
	Soul of Armenia: Folk Music Rarities of Komitas Vardapet This program introduces some of the earliest and rarest recordings of Armenian folk music, soulful interpretations by performers who recorded during the 78 rpm era. Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935) was the first to document such works by recording the oral tradition of Armenian music. By 1912, he had recorded his own arrangements of these Armenian folk songs, (in the same way Bartok did for Hungarian music), with the legendary "Caruso of the Armenians," Armenak Shahmuradian... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Music; World Music; Folk Music; Armenia Downloads: 263 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: John Adams 40th Birthday Celebration This three hour special "Marathon Mornings" program features Charles Amirkhanian interviewing John Adams on the occasion of his fortieth birthday. Along with an in-depth interview about his compositions, collaborators, and working as composer in residence with the San Francisco Symphony under Edo de Waart, Charles and Mr. Adams do some wonderful KPFA subscription plugs. The program features several shorter works, and full presentations of Mr... Keywords: Interview and Music; KPFA; Morning Concert series; 20th Century Classical; Orchestral Music; John Adams Downloads: 312 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Interview with Lawrence Weschler From a recording made in July of 1988, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Lawrence Weschler, essayist for the New Yorker Magazine and grandson of composer Ernst Toch. They discusses his book “Shapinsky's Karma, Boggs's Bill, and Other True-Life Tales ”, which profiles six people who unexpectedly changed the direction of their lives. These include the story of James Boggs who blurred the lines between art and commerce by painting exquisite copies of $100 bills and then insisted on spending them, ... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview; Modern Art; Lawrence Weschler Downloads: 25 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Interview with Fred Ho From a program recorded on January 25, 1990, Charles Amirkhanian interviews the Chinese American composer, baritone saxophonist, and political activist, Fred Ho about a scheduled performance of his ballet “A Song for Manong”. A Harvard educated sociologist turned composer, Fred Ho’s music has been heavily influenced by the music of John Coltrane and Charlie Mingus as well as the politics of the Black Panther Party and the plight of American immigrants... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; Jazz; Fred Ho Downloads: 48 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: An interview with John Adams Charles Amirkhanian talks with composer John Adams in February 1990 about his music, including his two orchestral works, “The Wound-Dresser” and “Fearful Symmetries”. The composer of the opera “Nixon in China” also delivers a progress report on his next opera, “The Death of Klinghoffer”, as well as discussing his affinity for working with small orchestras, and other sundry topics. Born in Worcester, Mass on February 15, 1947, Adams celebrated his 43rd birthday the week of this re... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert Series; Interview and Music; New Music; Opera; John Adams Downloads: 18 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: The Music of David Jaffe Composer-performer David Jaffe has bridged the gap between acoustic folk music and the world of cerebral computer music with a multi-stylistic approach. A lecturer at Stanford University, where much of his work is produced at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Jaffe also worked with neXt Computers on creating new types of music software. His composition Impossible Animals contains human voice timbres in the shape of carefully analyzed bird songs... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; David Jaffe Downloads: 100 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: A Report from New Music America 1990 and Music by Peter Garland and John Luther Adams Charles Amirkhanian plays a number of works by Canadian composers, many of whom were to be highlighted during the New Music America Festival to be held in Montreal, Canada in 1990. To get more information about this event Charles interviews composer and Festival director, Jean Piché over the phone. In the second half of the program Charles talks to Peter Garland and John Luther Adams who have both incorporated their interest in Native American cultures into their music, of which we hear a selec... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; 20th Century Classical; New Music Downloads: 36 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Najma Akhtar London based vocalist Najma's commercial recording, "Atish" (Shanachie Records), which means "Fire" in the Indian language Urdu, mixes ancient Persian love poems with jazz saxophone, bass, keyboards, tabla, violin, and layer upon layer of hauntingly beautiful vocals. Charles Amirkhanian speaks with the young world beat star and introduces selections from this compact disc, originally recorded for the English Triple Earth label... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; World Music; Najma Akhtar Downloads: 184 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Foday Musa Suso-The Dreamtime Charles Amirkhanian interviews the Mandingo Griot musician from Gambia, Foday Musa Suso. A virtuoso on the 21-stringed kora, he also is a drummer and composer whose multi-instrumental talents are highlighted on numerous recordings, including The Dreamtime, a CD from CMP (3001), issued in Germany. After teaching at the University of Ghana and performing radio and television programs throughout Europe, Suso moved to the United States in 1977... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview; World Music; Jazz; Foday Musa Suso Downloads: 122 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Armenian Music This program contains a selection of Armenian music, including folk, popular and classical forms, presented by Hratch Nargizian, a native of Armenia SSR, now resident in the Bay Area. Included among recorded examples are selections from Vahe Hovsepian (dudek), Lucine Zakarian, Tatevik Hovhanesian, Sayat Nova Ensemble of Armenian Dance and Song, Maratook, Sassoonik Ethnic Orchestra, the Capella Choir of Armenia (Hovhaness Chekijian, conductor) and the Sharakan Ensemble of Ancient Music... Keywords: KPFA; Morning Concert series; Armenian music; World Music; Interview and Music Downloads: 802 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert with Conlon Nancarrow, 1991 Morning Concert host Charles Amirkhanian interviews Conlon Nancarrow by telephone from his home in Mexico City. The two composers reminisce about time spent together in Mexico, and movements in Mexican politics. Nancarrow shares how he discovered Indian classical music. Amirkhanian remarks on the innovations, technical details, and challenging performance aspects of Nancarrow’s work. The program features brief excerpts from "Piece No... Keywords: interviews; Conlon Nancarrow; player piano studies; KPFA Morning Concert series; New Music Downloads: 352 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: Najma Akhtar Charles Amirkhanian talks live in the KPFA studio, with the famed British born, Muslim singer Najma, about her upcoming concerts in the Bay Area, including a scheduled appearance with Amirkhanian at the San Francisco Exploratorium as part of their Speaking of Music series. Najma discusses the form of the ghazal, or love song, which is very popular in India and Pakistan, and which has a long and distinguished history... Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; World Music; Najma Akhtar Downloads: 169 Average rating: (0 review)
	Morning Concert: The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy, plus selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams and David Byrne In the first Morning Concert broadcast from the new building, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Howard Hersh about his new piece, Shrapnel in the Heart. Charles also plays a number of selections from a new release on Saydisc Records entitled "Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy". Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Music; 20th Century Classical; Unconventional Instruments Downloads: 183 Average rating: (0 review)