![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Pacifica Chamber Players Concert
A concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players given on December 19, 1971 at the Berkeley Piano Club, featuring songs by Beethoven and Schubert and new music by George Antheil, Elizabeth Gyring, & Henry Cowell.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; Classical Music; Pacifica Chamber Players
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| Pacifica Chamber Players: Avant-Garde Concert
The Pacifica Chamber Players, formed for the purpose of playing studio concerts over the air on KPFA, present a concert of music composed for the ensemble by Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Friedman, and Charles Shere, Julian White, plus a work written by the American composer Henry Brant. The Players include different performers for each concert, depending on the music chosen by the ensemble's director, clarinetist, Thomas Rose...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; New Music; Pacifica Chamber Players
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| Pacifica Is 25
Exactly 25 years after KPFA first went on the air, Larry Josephson hosts a program commemorating the event. In a mix of interviews with some of the stations earliest personalities, including Joy Hill, widow of the station's founder Lewis Hill, and excerpts from some of the best programs from the past 25 years, Josephson recalls the illustrious history of the country's first listener supported radio station.
Keywords: Pacifica Radio Network; KPFA-FM; Public Radio; radio stations; Lewis Hill
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| Pamela Z performs Bone Music at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Pamela Z
Bay Area digital pioneer Pamela Z performs her song Bone Music at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; Experimental; Sound Art
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| Pamela Z performs Metrodaemonium at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Pamela Z
Bay Area digital pioneer Pamela Z performs her song Metrodaemonium at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; Experimental; Sound Art
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| Pamela Z, Speaking of Music at the Exploratorium in 1989 - Pamela Z
Pamela Z interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's Speaking of Music Series in San Francisco, November 2, 1989. In conjunction with her artist-in-residency work at the Exploratorium, Pamela Z presents a sampling of her live solo performance work with electronics and discussed her techniques, influences, favorite musicians, new directions, collaboration, and the context of her work in the current new music milieu.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; Vocal; 20th Century Classical; Performance Art
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| Panel Discussion on the Firing of Two Co-directors of the Mills College Tape Music Center, 1969 - Anthony J. Gnazzo & Lowell Cross
This program consists of a panel discussion on the subject of the firing of the two co-directors of the Mills College Tape Music Center (Anthony Gnazzo and Lowell Cross). KPFA Music Director Howard Hersh interviews Gnazzo, Cross, and composers Eugene Turitz, Alden Jenks, and Ann Kish and student representative Susan Lynch about the action of the college. The College was offered time to respond but declined...
Source: Other Minds
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| Paul Dresher performs Chorale Times Two at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Paul Dresher
While experimenting with a Yamaha SY-99 synthesizer Dresher created a synthesizer timbre that intrigued him sonically and from which kept emerging a simple expanding chord progression. This suggested the kind of core harmonic progressions embodied in Bach chorales, which are often used as models in beginning studies of harmony and voice leading. The idea kept hanging around and nagging for attention, which it finally receives in the Concerto for Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Music; Chamber Music; Electro-Acoustic/Electronic; Other Minds Festival
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| Paul Dresher performs the World Premiere of RetroDisrespective at Other Minds 4, 1997 - Paul Dresher
Drawing on sources as diverse as Indonesian music traditions and rock n' roll, leading Bay Area composer Paul Dresher performs the world premiere of a new solo composition for electric guitar at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1997 at San Francisco's Cowell Theater.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical; World Music
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| Pauline Oliveros & The Circle Trio Perform at Other Minds Festival 8, 2002 - Pauline Oliveros & The Circle Trio
Members of The Circle Trio make music by tuning psychically to a channeled source of connection that guides their musical improvisation. Pauline Oliveros has been a pioneer in the practice of meditation pieces for performers and "audiences", and has developed the concept of Deep Listening, a kind of collective improvisation involving zen-like focus on sound production and interaction during performance...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Other Minds Festival of New Music; Music; New Music; Free Improvisation; Pauline Oliveros; The Circle Trio
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| Pauline Oliveros on KPFA's Speaking of Music Series - Pauline Oliveros
Charles Amirkhanian speaks with Pauline Oliveros about her current works, her overall evolution as a composer, Deep Listening, her instrument the accordion, improvisation, collaboration, teaching and more . The interview also includes live and taped performances of her works. This program was presented as part of the Speaking of Music series at The Exploratorium in San Francisco on February 21, 1985...
Source: Other Minds
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| Pauline Oliveros Theatre Piece for Trombone with Stuart Dempster, 1965 - Pauline Oliveros
Composed together with Elizabeth Harris (staging) and performed by Stuart Dempster at a concert given in 1965 at 321 Divisidero Street in San Francisco. Charles Boone describes the action and setting preceeding the very theatrical performance involving candles, hose, funnels and other unusual props. From a live broadcast. KPFA had telephone lines installed into the San Francisco Tape Music Center so that concerts before a live audience could be heard live.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Music; Performance Art; Electro-Acoustic/Electronic; KPFA-FM; San Francisco Tape Music Center
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| Pauline Oliveros, Speaking of Music at the Exploratorium in 1985 - Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's Speaking of Music Series in San Francisco, February 21, 1985. Charles Amirkhanian speaks with Pauline Oliveros about her current works, her overall evolution as a composer, Deep Listening, her instrument the accordion, improvisation, collaboration, teaching and more. The interview also includes live and taped performances of her works...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; Improvisation
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| Pauline Oliveros: Quintuplets Play PenHomage to Ruth Crawford, Performed by Sarah Cahill at Other Minds 8, 2002 - Pauline Oliveros
Pianist Sarah Cahill performs Pauline Oliveros' piece Quintuplets Play Pen: Homage to Ruth Crawford (2001). Cahill at the time spoke of the piece as "a playful polyrhythmic dance. There are layers of counterpoint: a bass line which rings out with help from the sostenuto pedal (Crawfod was very fond of this particular pedal); steady staccato quintuplets; and a delicate melody in sixteenth notes. There are fifteen distinct sections, of ten measures each...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde
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| Percussion Music: From Lou Harrison’s collection of 78 rpm acetate records
On this installment of Ode to Gravity, Charles Amirkhanian unearths rare gems from Lou Harrison’s personal record collection. Amirkhanian focuses on percussion music from the late 1930s and early 1940s, broadcasting selections by American composers Harrison, Henry Cowell, Johanna Beyer and William Russell. Many of these recordings were made live at one of John Cage’s famous percussion concerts, in 1939 at the Cornish School in Seattle...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Ode to Gravity Series; Lou Harrison; Percussion Music; New Music; acetate discs; 78rpm
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| Peter Garland: Matachin Dances performed at New Music America 1981 - Peter Garland
Peter Garland on New Music America in 1981, San Francisco California. This recording is available from Cold Blue Records, www.coldbluemusic.com.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde
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| Peter Yates interviewed by Charles Shere, 1964
In an interview recorded on Dec. 7, 1964, Peter Yates, a self described “professional amateur”, talks about the artistic implications of New Music. The conversation begins with an exploration of the connections between New Music and Zen Buddhism. According to Yates the appreciation of new and electronic music is best accomplished by freeing one’s self of preconceptions and to surrender one’s self to the act of listening...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; New Music; Interactive Art
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| Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Concert
This is the first half of a concert given at the Fresno State College Department of Music, Recital Hall Music Building on Nov. 11, 1964. It features compositions by students and faculty of Fresno State College performed by members of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Art Songs; Chamber Music; Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
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| 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
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| Philip Glass Interviewed by Russ Jennings - Philip Glass
Philip Glass discusses The Photographer, a theater piece conceived as a play, a concert and a dance in three acts which had recently been released on record. Glass and his ensemble were in town to perform the piece based on the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge. Discussions of technical aspects of composition, traveling, performance, and editing, follows. Interviewers are Russ Jennings and Leslie Roberts.
Source: Other Minds
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| Philip Glass Interviewed on his 4/21/85 performance at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco - Philip Glass
Philip Glass interview with Charles Amirkhanian on January 25, 1985 on Glass' upcoming April 21st performance at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. First broadcast April 11 on KPFA's Morning Concert Series.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Minimalism
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| Philip Lamantia on Poetry, with a reading by Bob Kaufman
A scholarly lecture by Philip Lamantia on poetry, philosophy, and language. At times quite technical, this is a fascinating talk on the underlying structures and assumed principles behind poetry. The end of the program includes a reading by Bob Kaufman of a number of unidentified poems.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Lecture: Panel discussion; Poetry; Bob Kaufman; Philip Lamantia
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| Phill Niblock performs "Sethwork" at Other Minds 11, 2005 - Phill Niblock
Phill Niblock performs Sethwork (2003) at Other Minds 11 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005. You can purchase CDs of Niblock's work at www.experimentalintermedia.org. Phill Niblock, electronics Seth Josel, guitars with e-bow Composer Phill Niblock presents the West Coast premiere of Sethwork, featuring guitarist Seth Josel and two simultaneously projected films by Niblock, whose music is most often accompanied by motion pictures of his own making...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; Experimental; Drone, Ambient
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| Piano Concerto by Robert Erickson
A dress rehearsal performance of Robert Erickson’s “Piano Concerto” given at the University of Illinois. [Date unknown]
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music: 20th Century Classical; Chamber Music; Robert Erickson
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| Piano Recital by Frederick Marvin
Frederick Marvin, whose extensive research has led to the revelation of the greatly interesting output of Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), performed this concert on February 24, 1973, at the Stephenson-Bradford Music and Fine Arts Center in Fresno California. On the program was Soler’s “Sonata in C”, Beethoven’s “Sonata, No. 18”, and George Antheil’s “Sonata No. 4” as well as works by Debussy and Liszt...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; Classical Music; Frederick Marvin
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| Pittsburgh International Contemporary Music Festival: Organ and Choral Concert
The Pittsburgh International Contemporary Music Festival, held on November 24-30, 1952, featured ten concerts of contemporary classical music, including this concert of organ music by Arthur Honegger, Olivier Messiaen, and Roger Sessions. Sponsored by the Carnegie Institute and the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University), the Festival has come to be recognized as a watershed event in 20th century musical composition...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical
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| Pli Selon Pli by Pierre Boulez
From the 1962 Donaueschingen Music Festival, a complete recording of Pierre Boulez’s “Pil Selon Pil” for soprano and orchestra, performed by Eva Maria Rogner and the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer. “Pil Selon Pil” which is translated as “fold by fold” or “crease on crease” is a piece in five movements, each based on poem by Stéphane Mallarmé...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music: 20th Century Classical; Pierre Boulez
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| Poetry - Center and Absence - Music: A Lecture by Pierre Boulez
In March 1963, Pierre Boulez delivered an address to the Festival of Contemporary Arts at the University of Illinois in Urbana on the topic of music and poetry. After a brief introduction by Igor Stravinsky, Boulez reflects on his work with the texts of Stephane Mallarmé and on the challenge of relating those “two sacred monsters’, music and poetry. After tracing the history of setting poetry to music, Boulez defends his own “abstract” way of handling texts, all the while insisting that...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; Lecture; Panel Discussion; Pierre Boulez
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| Portrait of Composer Colin McPhee - Colin McPhee
Charles Amirkhanian introduces the life and music of Colin McPhee (1901-1964), with commentary by Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison. A classically trained pianist and composer, McPhee became prominent in the 1930s modern music movement in New York. His life and music changed direction when he discovered Balinese music in 1931. He moved to Bali and thoroughly studied the indigenous music. McPhee composed music incorporating Balinese themes...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Documentary; 20th Century Classical; World Music
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