| Women's Works: Vivian Fine and Her Music |
59 min |
20th Century Classical
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| Vivian Fine, born in 1913, is one of the most significant female composers in the United States. In this program, produced in 1986 by the International League of Women Composers with funds provided by the Corporation for Public... |
| A Sense of Place The Life and Work of Conlon Nancarrow |
29 min |
Mechanical Music
New Music |
| The life and work of Conlon Nancarrow: a composer who turned an anachronistic gadget, the player piano, into a vehicle for greatness. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1912, Nancarrow was active in his early years as a trumpeter, playing... |
| American Mavericks An Ordinary Guy Burning Down the House: Sound Portrait of David Byrne |
59 min |
Popular Music
Music Theater |
| David Byrne has firmly established himself as a star in two worlds, rock and avant-garde music. Best known as the squawky lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the critically acclaimed art rock group, Talking Heads, he has forged a new... |
| American Mavericks My Lunch with Mel Powell: An American Musical Feast |
59 min |
20th Century Classical
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| Mel Powell could probably never have been anything but an American. He was a marvelous talker, a consummate raconteur with a sonorous storyteller's voice to make the tales more mesmerizing. He grew up in a building that overlooked Yankee... |
| Cabrillo Music Festival Reflections on Carlos Chávez After His Death: by Lou Harrison & Aaron Copland |
7 min |
20th Century Classical
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| Statements by Lou Harrison and Aaron Copland, reflecting their thoughts on the legacy of Carlos Chávez. Recorded by Charles Amirkhanian during the 1978 Cabrillo Music Festival, held annually in August in Santa Cruz, CA. Chávez, the... |
| Face the Day Dane Rudhyar: Seed-Man |
23 mins |
Current Events
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| A brief look at the life and philosophy of Dane Rudhyar and his concept of the Seed Man. Inspired from an early age by the idea that all life is cyclical, Rudhyar, who was born in France in 1895 as Daniel Chennevière, moved to the United... |
| Morning Concert John Cage Memorial Program Upon His 80th Birthday |
117 min |
New Music
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| From September 4, 1992, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a retrospective on the life of composer John Cage, whose work has had a great influence on artistic thought in the 20th Century, and who had just passed away a few weeks before what... |
| Morning Concert The Music of John Haussermann |
128 min |
20th Century Classical
Orchestral Music |
| One of the most unusual and inspiring stories in modern American music is that of composer John Haussermann. Born in 1909, to a wealthy family then living in Manila, Haussermann studied music at the Cincinnati Conservatory (1924"27) and at... |
| Ode To Gravity The World of Alan Hovhaness |
51 min |
20th Century Classical
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| American composer Alan Hovhaness (b. 1911, Somerville, Mass.) has successfully combined Eastern and Western music to produce unique works both exotic and immediately accessible. Incorporating music reflecting his Armenian heritage with... |
| Radiofest - New American Music The Pioneers of Electronic Music in America |
29 min |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
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| This is a program, produced by the American Society of University Composers in conjunction with Radiofest: New American Music, in which the work of two early American pioneers in electronic music is explored. During the early 1950s Otto... |
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