![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 10 Miles High Over Albania by Robert Moran
Three excerpts from “10 Miles High Over Albania”, a 1983 composition by Robert Moran, scored for 8 amplified harps. This ballet piece was commissioned and premiered by the Joyce Lamhut Dance Group and was first performed at the Joyce Theater in New York City in March of 1983.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical; Robert Moran
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| Manfred Eicher of ECM Records
Charles Amirkhanian interviews Manfred Eicher, the founder and director of ECM Records. Topics discussed include the influence of ECM, its unique sound, and the work of its best known artists, including Keith Jarrett, Arvo Pärt, and Jan Garbarek. The advantages of certain recording techniques and venues are also mentioned. This Interview was recorded in June, 1985 in Munich Germany.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; Jazz; ECM Records; Manfred Eicher
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| Marc Blitzstein Centenary Celebration - "Piano Percussion Music" performed at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Marc Blitzstein
11th Other Minds Music Festival: Centenary Celebration of Marc Blitzstein, Saturday, February 26, 2005, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Piano Percussion Music Toccata Air Rondino Sarah Cahill, piano solo Piano Percussion Music is a grandly scaled work that is a neglected and unpublished masterpiece of the late '20s. Written for a League of Composers concert in New York, it is in three movements: Toccata, Air, and Rondino...
Source: Other Minds
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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...
Source: Other Minds
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| Marc Blitzstein Centenary Celebration - Songs from - Marc Blitzstein
11th Other Minds Music Festival: Centenary Celebration of Marc Blitzstein, Saturday, February 26, 2005, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Songs from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-36) Nickel Under the Foot - Amy X Neuburg, soprano Joe Worker - Eric A. Gordon, baritone The Cradle Will Rock - John Duykers, tenor Art for Art's Sake - Johh Duykers, Eric A. Gordon, Amy X Neuburg, audience All songs accompanied by pianist Sarah Cahill Marc Blitzstein's best known composition is his 1936 ...
Source: Other Minds
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| Marc Blitzstein Centenary Celebration - Songs from "The Cradle Will Rock", "From Marion's Book" and "Modest Maid" performed at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Marc Blitzstein
11th Other Minds Music Festival: Centenary Celebration of Marc Blitzstein, Saturday, February 26, 2005, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Songs from The Cradle Will Rock (1935-36) Nickel Under the Foot - Amy X Neuburg, soprano Joe Worker - Eric A. Gordon, baritone The Cradle Will Rock - John Duykers, tenor Art for Art's Sake - Johh Duykers, Eric A. Gordon, Amy X Neuburg, audience All songs accompanied by pianist Sarah Cahill Marc Blitzstein's best known composition is his 1936 ...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Opera; 20th Century Classical; Political
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| Marc Blitzstein Centenary Celebration - Songs on texts of Walt Whitman and "What Will It Be", "Francie" and "Love at First Word" performed at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Marc Blitzstein
11th Other Minds Music Festival: Centenary Celebration of Marc Blitzstein, Saturday, February 26, 2005, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Songs on texts of Walt Whitman O Hymen O Hymenee (1927) I Am He (1928) What Weeping Face (1925) John Duykers, tenor "What Will It Be?" from Regina (1946-49) Amy X Neuburg, soprano "Francie" from No for An Answer (1937-40) John Duykers, Amy X Neuburg "Love at First Word" from Reuben, Reuben (1949-55) John Duykers, Amy X Neuburg All songs accom...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Cabaret; Opera; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs Alvin Lucier's Nothing Is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever) at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Alvin Lucier & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast premiere of Alvin Lucier's piece Nothing Is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever) (1990) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, piano & teapot with miniature sound system According to Lucier: In the Spring of 1990, Aki Takahashi asked me to write an arrangement of a Beatles song for her. She had just finished recording the complete piano music of Satie for Toshiba-EMI, the success of which had prom...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs António Pinho Vargas' Dinky Toys at Other Minds 5, 1999 - António Pinho Vargas
Margaret Leng Tan performs the U.S. premiere of António Pinho Vargas' Dinky Toys (1979), arranged by the composer for her in 1999, at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, two toy pianos According to Tan: Dinky Toys and General Complex are originally works for piano. António Pinho Vargas sent them to me with the following instructions: "You can do what you want (change register, organize, improvise, etc.) to play them on your toy pian...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Music; Unconventional Instruments; Toy Piano; Other Minds Festival
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs António Pinho Vargas' General Complex at Other Minds 5, 1999 - António Pinho Vargas & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the U.S. premiere of António Pinho Vargas' General Complex (1995), arranged by Margaret Leng Tan, at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, two toy pianos According to Tan: Dinky Toys and General Complex are originally works for piano. António Pinho Vargas sent them to me with the following instructions: "You can do what you want (change register, organize, improvise, etc.) to play them on your toy piano." I ...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs Conlon Nancarrow's Three 2-Part Studies at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Conlon Nancarrow & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast premiere of Conlon Nancarrow's Three 2-Part Studies (1942), arranged by Tan, at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, two toy pianos According to Tan: The published score of the Three 2-Part Studies bears the following dedication: "For Jürgen, a dearest friend, who found this score, forgotten in the dust of my studio." When I first embarked on my career as a toy pianist in 1995, I was ferreting...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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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...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs Guy Klucevsek's Sweet Chinoiserie at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Guy Klucevsek & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast premiere of Guy Klucevsek's Sweet Chinoiserie (1995), arranged by the composer for Ms. Tan in 1996, at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, toy pianos, toy accordion, melodica, toy drums and rattles, glasses, soya sauce dishes & cat food cans According to Tan: Guy Klucevsek is a renowned new music accordionist and composer...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs John Cage Suite for Toy Piano (1948) at Other Minds 5, 1999 - John Cage & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the John Cage composition Suite for Toy Piano (1948) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano. Ms. Tan plays the Schoenhut toy piano. According to Tan: Cage wrote his Suite for Toy Piano at Black Mountain College in North Carolina for Merce Cunningham's Diversion. Its five short movements use only nine consecutive white notes...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs John Kennedy's Fanfare from The Winged Energy of Delight at Other Minds 5, 1999 - John Kennedy & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast premiere of John Kennedy's Fanfare from The Winged Energy of Delight (1997) written for Ms. Tan at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, toy cymbals According to Tan: Fanfare is the prelude from The Winged Energy of Delight, a four-movement suite written for my toy piano by John Kennedy, composer and co-artistic director of the new music group "Essential Music." He thought it would be fun to hav...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs Julia Wolfe's East Broadway at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Julia Wolfe & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast premiere of Julia Wolfe's piece East Broadway (1996) written specifically for Tan at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano & toy boombox Julia Wolfe is co-artistic director of New York's Bang On A Can Festival. East Broadway is inspired by the frenetic energy of that street running through Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs Stephen Montague's Mirabella at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Stephen Montague & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast premiere of Stephen Montague's Mirabella (A Tarantella) (1995) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano This piece was written for Margaret Leng Tan. Ms. Tan plays the Schoenhut toy piano. According to Tan: Stephen Montague was born and educated in the U.S. but has been living in London as a freelance composer since 1974...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs The Beatles song Eleanor Rigby at Other Minds 5, 1999 - John Lennon/Paul McCartney, Toby Twining & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast Premiere special arrangement of The Beatles song Eleanor Rigby (arranged by Toby Twining) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avant-garde; Rock & Roll; 20th Century Classical; Toy Piano
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs Toby Twining's Nightmare Rag at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Toby Twining & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast premiere of Toby Twining's Nightmare Rag (1989), arranged by the composer for Margaret Leng Tan in 1995) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano & piano. Ms. Tan plays the Schoenhut toy piano. According to Tan: Composer/vocalist Toby Twining's music and voice can be heard on his CD Shaman, featuring his vocal quartet, Toby Twining Music...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Margaret Leng Tan performs Toby Twining's Satie Blues at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Toby Twining & Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng Tan performs the west coast premiere of Toby Twining's Satie Blues (1989), arranged by the composer for Margaret Leng Tan in 1995) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano & piano. Ms. Tan plays the Schoenhut toy piano. According to Tan: Composer/vocalist Toby Twining's music and voice can be heard on his CD Shaman, featuring his vocal quartet, Toby Twining Music...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Maria de Alvear performs "Gran Sol" with cellist Joan Jeanrenaud and Dhrupad vocalist Amelia Cuni at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Maria de Alvear
Composer Maria de Alvear presents the world premiere of Gran Sol at the 11th Other Minds Music Festival at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005. According to de Alvear, Gran Sol contemplates the gender of the brightest planet. Why is "el sol" a male noun in Spanish and "die Sonne" a female one in German? Find out as three outstanding female performers tackle the question. Alvear has been called by the Village Voice the most important emerging composer in Europe...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Vocal; World Music; New Music
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| Mary Ellen Childs: Click (1989) performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Mary Ellen Childs
Mary Ellen Childs performs the West Coast premiere of her composition Click (1989) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Mary Ellen Childs: Drum Roll (1998) performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Mary Ellen Childs
Mary Ellen Childs performs the West Coast premiere of her composition Drum Roll (1998) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Mary Ellen Childs: Shiva (1994) performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Mary Ellen Childs
Mary Ellen Childs performs the West Coast premiere of her composition Shiva (1994) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Mary Ellen Childs: Sight Of Hand (1999) performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Mary Ellen Childs
Mary Ellen Childs performs Sight Of Hand (1999) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco. This piece had its world premiere and was commissioned for the fifth Other Minds Music Festival with the assistance of the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Mary Ellen Childs: Talking Stick (1998) performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 - Mary Ellen Childs
Mary Ellen Childs performs the West Coast premiere of her composition Talking Stick (1998) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Avantgarde
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| Mauricio Kagel: Anagramme - Mauricio Kagel
The Argentinian composer residing in Germany discusses his "Anagramme" for chorus and instruments, and is questioned after the music by Pauline Oliveros, Ramon Sender, and Will Ogdon. First broadcast on Wednesday 28 August 1963 on KPFA.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avant-Garde; New Music; Interview and Music; Mauricio Kagel; KPFA-FM
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| May-Day, or the Little Gypsy and Eight Songs for a Mad King
A performance of two pieces of musical theater by the New Port Costa Players given at the UC Berkeley’s Museum in 1975. The first work is a romantic comedy in a village setting incorporating comic dialogue and medieval sounding melodies. The second work is Peter Maxwell Davies’ “Eight Songs for a Mad King”. Originally inspired by a music box that once belonged to King George III of England, this is a work for one male voice with a remarkable vocal range.
Keywords: Music; Music Theatre; Opera; New Port Costa Players
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| Meteor Farm by Henry Brant
Henry Brant’s Meteor Farm is a piece scored for two sopranos, three South Indian performers, two choruses, West African chorus, jazz band, gamelan, and two percussion ensembles.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical; Henry Brant
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| Michael Nyman performs piano accompaniment to the silent film "Manhatta" (Paul Strand, 1920) at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Michael Nyman
English Composer Michael Nyman performs his piano accompaniment to the silent film Manhatta (Paul Strand, 1920) at Other Minds 11 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005. Michael Nyman, piano
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Minimalism; 20th Century Classical
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| Michael Nyman performs solo piano works from the soundtrack to The Piano at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Michael Nyman
English composer Michael Nyman performs works from the soundtrack to The Piano (Big my secret, Silver-fingered fling, The heart asks pleasure first) on solo piano at Other Minds 11 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Michael Nyman, piano.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Soundtrack; Minimalism
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| Michael Sellers Plays the Music of Dane Rudhyar and Leo Ornstein
Although any collaborative documentation is missing, and the identification of the compositions attributed to Dane Rudhyar is somewhat tentative, this does appear to be a concert of works by Rudhyar and Leo Ornstein as performed by pianist Michael Sellers. The concert took place in 1972, and is quite likely the KPFA sponsored concert held on March 5, 1972 at the Live Oak Theater in Berkeley California...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; Michael Sellers |
| Miriam Abramowitsch Recital
This program was recorded on Feb. 27, 1972 as a benefit for Woman for Peace. Bernhard Abramowitsch, father of the singer Miriam Abramowitsch, accompanies his daughter on the piano.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Art Songs; Classical Music; Miriam Abramowitsch
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| MOCA-FM: A Live Symposium on Conceptual Art
Tom Marioni, Director of the Museum of Conceptual Art, leads a live panel discussion on the subject of conceptual art. Participants includes: Jim Melchert, David Hollsenbeck, Bill Geiss, and Transparent Teachers Inc. This barely moderated event includes discussions on the definition of conceptual art as art without a frame; conceptual art as a vacation; how to fry bacon; experimenting with dogs; and other amusing interludes that eradicate the barrier between thought and action...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Lecture; Panel Discussion; Modern Art; MOCA-FM
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| MOCA-FM: Conceptual Arts Piece
Charles Amirkhanian talks to Tom Marioni, director of the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco. At the time of this recording Marioni had recently completed the recording of his piece "Drum Brushing" (1978) at ZBS Media in New York. This was given its West Coast premiere over KPFA. The piece, features Marioni doing seven drawings, overlaid on seven recording tracks in the studio mix. Also in this program, Marioni introduces one minute long audio works by visual artists originally broadcast ...
Keywords: Tom Marioni; KPFA; Museum of Conceptual Art San Francisco; Interview and Music; Modern Art; Sound Poetry
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| MOCA/FM: A Discussion with Paul Cotton
A discussion with Paul Cotton, a young conceptual artist who’s uninvited entry to the Art and Technology Show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art resulted in a tremendous turmoil which was subsequently reported in great detail by the Los Angeles Free Press. Cotton is perhaps best know for dressing himself in a bunny costume with his genitals sticking out, and other acts of provocative public nudity...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Performance Art; Modern Art; Paul Cotton
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| MOCA/FM: Sound Art from the Museum of Conceptual Art
The Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA), San Francisco, presents an exhibition for radio by 26 artists, each of whom had been asked to do produce pieces of about sixty seconds duration. Produced by Tom Marioni, director of MOCA, these brief conceptual sound pieces, created by a variety of artists, sculptors, and musicians range from rather conventional jazz music and poetry to downright bizarre examples of text sound compositions ad quasi ambient sound recordings...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; MOCA FM; Spoken Word; Sound Poetry; Modern Art
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| MOCA/FM: Sound Sculpture As
Sound Sculpture As was an exhibition of 9 sound sculpture/performances, initiated and curated by Tom Marioni on April 30, 1970. The participating artists, all sculptors, were: Peter Macan (sounds of popping from plastic bubble wrap underfoot on the floor at entrance and in elevator); Mel Henderson (firing a gun at a projected image of a tiger); Jim Melchert (30 unanswered telephone rings from two calls placed from outside the museum); Tom Marioni aka Allan Fish (Piss Piece-- from the top of a la...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; MOCA; Inter-Media; Visual Arts; Sound Sculpture; Modern Art; Performance Art
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| Moondog: the Man on the Street
Gordon Spencer of WBAI in New York presents a program about Louis Hardin, more popularly known as Moondog. From the 1940s up until 1974 Moondog made his living as a street musician and poet in New York City and was typically found near the jazz clubs on 52nd Street. Blind since an accident when he was 16 years old, Moondog was always recognizable in his Viking helmet playing a variety of instruments, some of his own design...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; WBAI; Interview and Music; Jazz; Avant-Garde; Louis Hardin; Moondog
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| 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
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| Morning Concert with Larry Wendt and Stephen Ruppenthal
In a two part program, Charles Amirkhanian has a giddy discussion about sound poetry with Stephen Ruppenthal and Larry Wendt. Featured music during the program include "Rain, Steam and Speed" (Wendt), and "Cloud Forests" (Ruppenthal), a live recording from the 1977 International Sound Poetry Festival in San Francisco.
Keywords: sound poetry; Stephen Ruppenthal; Larry Wendt; Charles Amirkhanian; KPFA; Morning Concert series; West Coast International Sound Poetry Festival
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| Morning Concert: 50th Anniversary of the Concert Societe Musicale Independante
On May 5, 1926 six young American composers who had been working in Paris presented their chamber music to an audience of musicians, intelligentsia, and socialites in the famed Salle Pleyel (or perhaps the nearby Salle Chopin). The concert, arranged by Nadia Boulanger and sponsored by the Societe Musicale Independente, a group which included the most celebrated European composers of the time, gave the French one of their first chances to hear what Americans were capable of musically...
Keywords: Chamber Music; Art Songs; Music and Interview; Societe Musicale Independante
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| 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
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| Morning Concert: A Preview of the 1991 Composer to Composer Festival
KPFA’s Charles Amirkhanian presents a preview of the compositions and composers featured during the 1991 Composer to Composer Festival, an international conference on New Music held at Telluride, Colorado, on July 11-14, 1991. Amirkhanian, who was co-director of the 1991 event, introduces selections highlighting many of the invited headliners, including, Eleanor Alberga, Louis Andriessen, Paul Dresher, Janice Giteck, Alicia Terzian, G...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical; Composer to Composer festival
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| 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
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| Morning Concert: A Visit with Arthur Berdahl
Charles Amirkhanian talks with the Knute Rockne of American music educators, Dr. Arthur C. Berdahl, longtime professor of music at Fresno State College (retired) and one of the founders of symphonic music in Fresno, California. From 1932 to 1954, Berdahl conducted the Fresno State College Symphony Orchestra and taught music theory, composition, and other music courses to the most prominent musicians to come out of the Central Valley...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert; Arthur Berdahl; Interview, Orchestral Music |
| 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
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| Morning Concert: A Visit with Paul Dresher
Guitarist and composer Paul Dresher talks with Charles Amirkhanian and presents recordings of his music ranging from 1979 to 1986. Included will be a recent orchestral piece, excerpts from his chamber opera, “Slow Fire”, and the solo guitar work which first brought notice to the young Bay Area composer, “Liquid and Stellar Music”. (from KPFA Folio)
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; Music Theatre; Paul Dresher
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| 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
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| 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
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