![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | New Music America 1981: A Concert by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
A live broadcast from the 1981 New Music America Festival, held at the Japan Center Theater in San Francisco, California, featuring a recital by the renowned sarod player, and founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. As with any North Indian classical concert, the music played depended on the time of day as well as the mood and inspiration of the artist. Therefore, the raga and tala of this concert was chosen accordingly, to match the mood of the evening, and was decided ...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Music; World Music; Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
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| New Music America 1981: A Concert of New Gamelan Music
From a recording made on June 13, 1981 in San Francisco, as part of the New Music America Festival, this is a concert of new gamelan music by Lou Harrison, K. R. T. Wasitodipuro, and others. Lou Harrison’s music is known for its original and sensitive use of percussion and employment of just intonation. It also is widely appreciated for its lyricism and assimilation of techniques from East and West, as is clearly evident in the pieces heard here that incorporate Western instruments such as the...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Music; New Music; Gamelan
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| New Music America 1981: Charles Amirkhanian Interviews John Rockwell & Charles Shere
Charles Amirkhanian engages former KPFA music programers and current music critics, John Rockwell and Charles Shere, in a fascinating discussion about the state of New Music and the New Music America Festivals. The difference between academic avant-garde music concerts and the more adventurous programing of multi-media works, new wave rock bands, and sound installations featured at the New Music America Festivals, is fully explored...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Interview; New Music; Avant-Garde
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| New Music America 1981: Selections from “United States” by Laurie Anderson
From a recording made on June 13, 1981 in San Francisco, as part of the New Music America Festival, Laurie Anderson performs selections from her epic work “United States”. Laurie Anderson was born in 1947 in Chicago and received her MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. As a performance and recording artist, she has worked with film-sound-talking pieces for many years, performing at the La Jolla Museum, the Berlin Festival, and various other places in the U...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Music; New Music; Performance Art; Laurie Anderson
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| New Music America 1981: Tapes of Studies for Player Piano by Conlon Nancarrow
The second Act of the June 12th concert of the 1981 New Music America Festival was devoted to the music of Conlon Nancarrow, who specialized in composing for the player piano. However unlike the ragtime player piano music that many people are familiar with, Nancarrow’s works are distinguished by their immense mathematical complexity and remarkable speed. In some ways they are not unlike a Bach fugue or canon played at speeds that were impossible to imagine before the advent of the computer...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Music; New Music; Mechanical Music; Conlon Nancarrow
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| New Music America 1981: The True and False Occult
The first Act of the June 12th concert of the 1981 New Music America Festival was a multi-media dance piece by choreographer Margaret Fisher with music by Robert Hughes. Entitled “The True and False Occult” this work involved three dancers, image projection, and music by Robert Hughes with additional music provided by the Azuma Kabuki Musicians. The New York Times (8/16/81) describes the piece as: “set to a suite that begins with coolly percussive music by the Azuma Kabuki Musicians and en...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Music; New Music; Performance Art
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| New Music America: 1981: Overlapping Lines and Curves by Nancy Karp
The fourth Act of the June 11th concert of the 1981 New Music America Festival was a dance piece by Nancy Karp. Conceived as a site specific work for the Rotunda of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art it was performed by 10 dancers, with choreography and music by Nancy Karp with additional audio production work by Bill Fontana. The score for the dance features some rather sparse yet quite pretty piano music...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Music; New Music; Performance Art; Nancy Karp
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| New Music America: A Concert in Honor of Percy Grainger's 100th Birthday
After an introductory talk by Charles Amirkhanian about the life and work of Percy Grainger we hear a recital of many of his works.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Music America series; Music; 20th Century Classical; Folk Music; Percy Grainger
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| New Music Ensemble Christmas Concert
A Christmas Concert by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble held at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco on December 4, 1971. This program features works by Leland Smith, Erik Satie, Shin ‘ichi Matsushita, as well as the world premiers of “Illuminatio Nocturna” by Robert Moran and “Noël” by Arne Mellnäs. All performed by the New Music Ensemble under the direction of Howard Hersh...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical; San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble
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| New Music FM I: Signal Smart
Ned Sublette introduces a program of five works produced for the broadcast medium by New York composers. These full length, electronic and musique concrète pieces, most of which involve samples from radio and TV broadcasts, provide a fascinating introduction to the experimental music scene of New York during the early 1980s. The composers represented are Peter Gordon, David van Tieghem, Ned Sublette, Maryanne Amacher, Frankie Mann, and the Boris Police Band...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; WNYC; Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; New Music FM
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| New Music FM II: A Festival in Four Movements
From KSJN (St. Paul, Minnesota) host Melinda Ward, of the Walker Art Center, introduces interviews and music by composers that were featured during the 1980 New Music America Festival in St. Paul Minnesota. This includes lengthy excerpts from Robert Ashley’s opera “Perfect Lives (Private Parts) and Alvin Curran’s mixed media piece “Small Circles Great Plains”. Also included is a free improvisation with violinist Leroy Jenkins and saxophonist Oliver Lake, works for piano by William Duck...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; KSJN; Interview and Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; New Music
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| New Music from Cal Arts: James Tenney: Composer and Performer
Ingram Marshall introduces performances and compositions by James Tenney, American composer, pianist and conductor.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; James Tenney
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| New Music Seance 2008 : Reflections on Ruth Crawford with Judith Tick - Other Minds
Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2008 New Music Seance Concerts featured a marathon of performances by pianist Sarah Cahill, and the dynamic violin/piano duo of Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmermann. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco on December 6, 2008...
Keywords: Other Minds; New Music Seance; Lecture; Panel Discussion; Ruth Crawford; 20th Century Classical; New Music
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| New Music Seance 2008: Concert No. 1, Birds in Warped Time - Other Minds
Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2008 New Music Seance Concerts featured a marathon of performances by pianist Sarah Cahill, and the dynamic violin/piano duo of Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmermann. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco on December 6, 2008...
Keywords: Other Minds; New Music Seance; Music; 20th Century Classical; New Music
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| New Music Seance 2008: Concert No. 2, Deep River of Dreams - Other Minds
Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2008 New Music Seance Concerts featured a marathon of performances by pianist Sarah Cahill, and the dynamic violin/piano duo of Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmermann. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco on December 6, 2008...
Keywords: Other Minds; New Music Seance; Music; 20th Century Classical; New Music
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| New Music Seance 2008: Concert No. 3, Ruth Crawford and her Milieu - Other Minds
Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2008 New Music Seance Concerts featured a marathon of performances by pianist Sarah Cahill, and the dynamic violin/piano duo of Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmermann. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco on December 6, 2008...
Keywords: Other Minds; New Music Seance; Music; 20th Century Classical; New Music
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| New Sounds San Jose: 3rd Annual Festival
The first concert of the Third Annual New Sounds of San Jose, recorded live on February 7, 1981. This year’s concerts featured works by Bay Area composers as well as the West Coast premiere of the English language version of Hans Werner Henze’s “El Cimarrón” a work inspired by the life of runaway slave, Esteban Montejo. (from KPFA Folio)
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Sounds San Jose; Music; 20th Century Classical
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| New Sounds San Jose: 3rd Annual Festival
The second concert of the Third Annual New Sounds of San Jose, recorded live on February 8, 1981. This year’s concerts featured works by Bay Area composers. In this second of two concerts you will hear works for solo piano by Charles Shere and John Adams, as well as a work for piano and violin by Richard Felciano and a number of songs for soprano, violin and piano by Wayne Peterson.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Sounds San jose; Music; 20th Century Classical
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| New Sounds San Jose: Philip Glass: 1978
A live recording of a concert by Philip Glass given on July 2, 1978 as part of the New Sounds San Jose concert series. This program include a number of pieces for organ, written in Glass’ trademark minimalist style, as well as a piece for orchestra and electronics. Born in 1937, Philip Glass is one of the most influential American composers of the late 20th century. He is the best known composer of repetitive or minimalist music, and has produced a number of very successful modern operas, ofte...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; New Sounds San Jose; Philip Glass; Music; New Music
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| Nicolas Slonimsky at 76 - Thin Air: Nicolas Slonimsky at 76
A lively and engaging interview with the dean of musicological lexicography who visited KPFA studios and talked with Robert Commanday (S.F. Chronicle music critic) and Charles Amirkhanian of KPFA. Especially important discussions about Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ives by the first conductor ever to champion Ives, Varese, Cowell, and Riegger (in the early 30's). Composer Lowell Cross was also present...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; 20th Century Classical; New Music; Nicolas Slonimsky
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| Nicolas Slonimsky at Berkeley Piano Club, 1971 - Nicolas Slonimsky
In this lecture and demonstration, Nicolas Slonimsky covers topics such as polytonality, atonality, scales, the perils of introducing the music of Charles Ives and Edgar Varese to the Hollywood Bowl audiences in 1933, polyrhythm, and The Grandmother Chord. He then recounts comments made about composers by their contemporary writers, e.g., there are criticisms of Chopin, Wagner and Stravinsky. A review of his experiences with Performance Art follows and is not to be missed...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Classical; Avantgarde
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| Nicolas Slonimsky Eats Dinner, a dinner conversation about New Music and classical masters, 1971 - Nicolas Slonimsky
In a three part series, the eminent musicologist, composer and conductor talks with Mrs. George Antheil, Charles Amirkhanian and Carol Law over roast duck at the home of Mrs. Antheil in Los Angeles, on December 28, 1971. Brace yourselves for a monologue that puts Spalding Gray to shame. Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995), whose career spans the period dating back to the mid-Twenties, is totally uninhibited by a microphone hanging off a chandelier in the West Hollywood apartment of Böske Antheil (190...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: 20th Century Classical
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| Nicolas Slonimsky Evening Concert, Russian and Soviet Music (1979) - Nicolas Slonimsky
Charles Amirkhanian gives a brief background into the life and music of Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950), who composed during both Tsarist and Stalinist Russia. A recording of the composer's Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81 was aired (Finedar Records). What follows may be some of the most hilarious, but informative, moments in musicology ever broadcast. After Amirkhanian reads the section in the recently published Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (6th Edition) written by Nicolas S...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Documentary; 20th Century Classical
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| Nicolas Slonimsky on the Funeral of Mozart in Vienna - Nicolas Slonimsky
Excerpted from "Thin Air: Nicolas Slonimsky at 76" The view long was that Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave due to the hazards of a raging storm in Vienna during his funeral. Musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky tells how he debunked that theory. Ever on a quest for accuracy of detail in his Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Slonimsky pursued some of the largest musical questions of all time, often with unexpected results...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; 20th Century Classical; New Music; Nicolas Slonimsky
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| Nicolas Slonimsky Speaks about Frank Zappa - Nicolas Slonimsky
In these recorded comments by Slonimsky, his musical world (classical/avant garde) and that of Frank Zappa (popular/avant garde) came together primarily due to the publication of a book by Slonimsky on scales and harmonies that attracted Zappas attention. Slonimsky recounts his acceptance of an invitation by Zappa to play with his Rock Band. He also recounts how amazed he was when he observed Zappas scores for classical music which looked far out like something Edgar Varese would write, a compos...
Source: Other Minds
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| Nicolas Slonimsky, Speaking Of Music at the Exploratorium in 1987 - Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's Speaking of Music Series in San Francisco, March 12, 1987. Tune into an evening of Nicolas Slonimskys highly comic logorrhea. Host Charles Amirkhanian hardly needs to ask a question of his 92-year old Russian-born guest, the father of the grandmother chord. An erudite musicologist, conductor, composer, pianist, and author of many books including Music Since 1900, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, and Lexicon of M...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical
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| Not So, Gnazzo
After yet another period of self-imposed retirement, intermedia artist, war correspondent, and general man around town, Anthony Gnazzo, returned to radio in 1971 with another important prerecorded message. “Not So” is an extended text-sound composition which combines taped telephone conversations with what sounds like live readings of selected cut-up texts and other sundry auditory eruptions. Is it just derivative of past avant-garde masterpieces or is it a hilarious, cutting-edge commentary...
Keywords: After yet another period of self-imposed retirement, intermedia artist, war correspondent, and general man around town, Anthony Gnazzo, returned to radio in 1971 with another important prerecorded message. “Not So” is an extended text-sound composition which combines taped telephone conversations with what sounds like live readings of selected cut-up texts and other sundry auditory eruptions. Is it just derivative of past avant-garde masterpieces or is it a hilarious, cutting-edge commentary on art and human existence? Only by listening repeatedly and intensely can these and other important questions be answered. So please, for the children, give this program your full and complete attention
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