![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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...
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Keywords: Interview; New Music; Orchestral Music; Edgar Varese
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| Elizabeth (Libby) Larsen, Speaking Of Music at the Exploratorium in 1986 - Elizabeth Larsen
Composer Libby Larsen interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's Speaking of Music Series in San Francisco, November 13, 1986. The composer and co-founder of the American Composers Forum is lively and candid in this late-eighties period piece in front of a live audience. Questioned by Charles Amirkhanian and members of the audience, Larsen talks about many things including her background (entering music school with a deep background in "stride boogie, Gregorian chant, and the Mick...
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Keywords: 20th Century Classical
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| Ellen Fullman & Kronos Quartet Perform at Other Minds 8, 2002 - Ellen Fullman
Ellen Fullman performs Stratified Bands: Last Kind Words (2001-02) with the Kronos Quartet in 2002 at The Other Minds Music Festival 8 at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco California. This premiere and performance made possible by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Songs in Last Kind Words as were performed in order include: Changing Perspective; Drifting Areas: the Mississippi River, Never gets out of me, If I get killed #1, When you see me comin', And if I don't bring you flo...
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Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Elliott Carter: A Life In Music, a documentary (1983) - Elliott Carter
This program provides an overview of Carter's compositions from 1942 to 1978. It includes excerpts from several of his compositions including the Symphony No. 1 (1942), Piano Sonata (1945-6), Cello Sonata (1948) and Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano (1961). Importantly, the program includes recordings of complete performances of the Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord (1952) with informative analysis by David Schiff (Carter's biographer)...
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Keywords: Documentary; 20th Century Classical
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| Marc Blitzstein Centenary Celebration - Blitzstein biographer Eric A. Gordon speaks at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Eric A. Gordon
11th Other Minds Music Festival: Centenary Celebration of Marc Blitzstein, Saturday, February 26, 2005, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Blitzstein biographer Eric A Gordon speaks with Charles Amirkhanian during the Centenary program and answers questions from the audience. ERIC A. GORDON is the author of Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein, and co-author of Ballad of an American: The Autobiography of Earl Robinson...
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| Errollyn Wallen: Rapture performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Errollyn Wallen
Ellen Ruth Rose and Michael Seth Orland perform the U.S. premiere of Errollyn Wallen's composition Rapture (1998) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Errollyn Wallen: Rapture (1998) Ellen Ruth rose, viola Michael Seth Orland, piano On Rapture: I was commissioned to write this piece by Malcolm Allison and the Cockermouth Music Society. It was premiered by Malcolm Allison and pianist Tim Lissimore in December 1998 and recorded by BBC Television for bro...
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Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Errollyn Wallen: Favorite Things performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen performs the U.S. premiere of her Songs cycle at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Errollyn Wallen, Songs Favorite Things (piano solo) Errollyn Wallen, voice & piano The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Jeanne & Howard Baumgarten. On Favorite Things: "More light, more light..." (Bonnard) is the inscription I placed at the head of this piece as it encapsulates the spirit of my intention here - to observe s...
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| Errollyn Wallen: Guru performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen performs the U.S. premiere of her Songs cycle at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Jeanne & Howard Baumgarten. Errollyn Wallen, Songs Guru Errollyn Wallen, voice & piano On Songs: Errollyn Wallen's first attempt at songwriting bubbled up subconsciously in one hour into What's Up Doc?, full of absurd lyrics which dissolve toward a social pathos of contemporary lonelines...
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Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Avantgarde
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| Errollyn Wallen: The Lighthouse performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen performs the U.S. premiere of her Songs cycle at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Jeanne & Howard Baumgarten. Errollyn Wallen, Songs The Lighthouse Errollyn Wallen, voice & piano On Songs: Errollyn Wallen's first attempt at songwriting bubbled up subconsciously in one hour into What's Up Doc?, full of absurd lyrics which dissolve toward a social pathos of contemporary...
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Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Errollyn Wallen: Magritte Man performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen performs the U.S. premiere of her Songs cycle at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Jeanne & Howard Baumgarten. Errollyn Wallen, Songs Magritte Man Errollyn Wallen, voice & piano On Songs: Errollyn Wallen's first attempt at songwriting bubbled up subconsciously in one hour into What's Up Doc?, full of absurd lyrics which dissolve toward a social pathos of contemporary l...
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| Errollyn Wallen: What Shall I Sing? performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen performs the U.S. premiere of her Songs cycle at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Jeanne & Howard Baumgarten. Errollyn Wallen, Songs What Shall I Sing? Errollyn Wallen, voice & piano On Songs: Errollyn Wallen's first attempt at songwriting bubbled up subconsciously in one hour into What's Up Doc?, full of absurd lyrics which dissolve toward a social pathos of contempo...
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| Errollyn Wallen: What's Up Doc? performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen performs the U.S. premiere of her Songs cycle at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Jeanne & Howard Baumgarten. Errollyn Wallen, Songs What's Up Doc? Errollyn Wallen, voice & piano On Songs: Errollyn Wallen's first attempt at songwriting bubbled up subconsciously in one hour into What's Up Doc?, full of absurd lyrics which dissolve toward a social pathos of contemporary...
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs Errollyn Wallen's Louis' Loops at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Errollyn Wallen & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the world premiere of Errollyn Wallen's Louis' Loops (1999) written for Margaret Leng Tan especially for Other Minds Music Festival 5 in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, two toy pianos According to Wallen: This piece is dedicated to my young grandson, Louis Wallen. I was inspired by watching him at play, as well as by seeing Margaret Leng Tan perform in New York last autumn and by the happy afternoon we spent in her Brooklyn home discussi...
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| So Percussion performs "Melody Competition" by Evan Ziproyn at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn's Melody Competition performed by So Percussion at the 11th Other Minds Music Festival at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005. So Percussion Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, Lawson White This performance was funded in part by a gift from Liz and Greg Lutz. Clarinetist and composer Evan Ziporyn presents Melody Competition, an electrifying piece incorporating the sounds and techniques of Balinese gamelan music and inspired by the west Balinese mebarun...
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