| New Directions in Europe: Program No. 3 |
60 min |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
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| Program No. 3 from a 13-part series exploring new music activity throughout Europe, produced in 1984 by Ned Wharton of KFJM (Grand Forks, North Dakota), and funded by a grant from the National Public Radio’s Satellite Development Fund.... |
| Pacifica is 25 |
84 min |
Current Events
Poetry |
| The first quarter century of Pacifica Radio and KPFA is documented in this program produced by Larry Josephson, longtime staff member of WBAI in New York, and erstwhile producer of KPFA’s the Morning Show. Interviews with many... |
| Paul Dessau: His Life & Music |
116 min |
Music Theater
Opera |
| Ted Cohen of WBAI-FM, presents a documentary on the life and music of the German Jewish composer Paul Dessau. Born in Hamburg in 1894 (and eventually dying in East Berlin in 1979), Dessau’s tumultuous life included periods of obscurity,... |
| Portrait of Composer Colin McPhee |
18 min |
New Music
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| 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 1930's modern music movement in... |
| Selected Writings and Music of Erik Satie |
58 min |
Classical Music
20th Century Classical |
| A program first broadcast in 1968 featuring Howard Hersh reading excerpts from the collected writings of French composer and pianist Erik Satie. The selections, which seem to be taken from assorted lectures, essays, and perhaps diary... |
| Song of Love: The Story of Robert and Clara Schumann |
49 min |
Classical Music
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| Claude Frank, a talented pianist and music professor, offers up this, at times hilarious, portrayal of the life and music of Robert and Clara Schumann. Apparently inspired by the MGM cinematic melodrama of the same name, which he had seen... |
| Stravinsky in Rehearsal from 1947 |
59 min |
20th Century Classical
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| In 1947, William Malloch, possessed by a sense of history, recorded Igor Stravinsky rehearsing his new revision of his “Symphonies of Wind Instruments in Memory of Debussy”. Malloch comments upon and plays this historical recording,... |
| The History of Sound Poetry: An Introduction |
70 min |
Sound Poetry
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic |
| Charles Amirkhanian traces developments in 20th century text-sound composition, including recorded examples by such historical figures as Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, Ernst Toch, Gertrude Stein, Mauricio Lemaitre, François Dufrene and... |
| The Jewish Bob Dylan |
29 min |
Folk Music
Popular Music |
| Bernard Timberg analyzes the songs of Bob Dylan looking for Jewish themes and imagery. He identifies messianic longings in “Quinn the Eskimo”; references to Jewish burial practices in “Masters of War”; and finds significance in... |
| The Piano Music of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji |
140 min |
20th Century Classical
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| Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was a British born composer, pianist, and author who wrote some of the longest and most difficult to perform works for the piano ever composed. Although a 20th century composer, his works have more in common... |
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