| Ode To Gravity The Public Imagination |
49 min |
Modern Art
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| Charles Amirkhanian interviews participants at an unusual visual arts conference held at DeBenneville Pines in the San Bernardino National Forest, in April of 1973. Those interviewed include Ken Friedman, director of the conference and a... |
| Opera Review A Review of Three Productions from the 1969 San Francisco Opera Season |
29 min |
Opera
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| In a program first broadcast on September 25, 1969, music critics Charles Shere and John Rockwell review three 1969 productions by the San Francisco Opera, “La Bohème,” “Ariadne auf Naxos,” and “La Traviata.” The two... |
| Opera Review San Francisco Opera’s Siegfried & Tosca |
63 min |
Opera
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| Bill Collins with Michael and Carol Barclay, reviews the 1972 San Francisco Opera production of “Siegfried,” after having raced across the Bay Bridge after catching the October 22nd performance. Later Carol is joined in the KPFA... |
| Other Minds Presents Charles Amirkhanian talks with film director Frank Scheffer |
4 min |
Avant-Garde
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| In a brief and informal interview, Charles Amirkhanian talks with Dutch filmmaker Frank Scheffer about his most recent film “Edgard Varèse: The One All Alone,” which had it’s U. S. premier in San Francisco on April 19, 2010, as part... |
| SF Symphony's New and Unusual Music Interview with Reinbert De Leeuw, John Adams and Henk Guittart |
18 min |
20th Century Classical
Classical Music |
| Charles Amirkhanian interviews Reinbert De Leeuw, the conductor of the Netherlands based Schoenberg Ensemble, backstage during a concert by the Ensemble given as part of the 1983 San Francisco Symphony’s New and Unusual Music series. ... |
| Speaking of Music Nicolas Slonimsky, March 12, 1987 |
114 min |
20th Century Classical
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| Tune into an evening of Nicolas Slonimsky's highly comic logorrhea as he is interviewed on March 12, 1987 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series. Host Charles Amirkhanian hardly needs to ask a question of... |
| Thin Air An Interview with Harold Farberman and Corinne Curry (Jan. 16, 1971) |
34 min |
Classical Music
20th Century Classical |
| Originally broadcast on January 16, 1971, Charles Amirkhanian talks with the then newly appointed conductor for the Oakland Symphony, Harold Farberman, and his wife, soprano, Corinne Curry. After briefly discussing Curry's recent... |
| Thin Air An Interview with Intermedia Artist, Iain Baxter |
24 min |
Modern Art
Interactive Art |
| On August 8, 1970, Charles Amirkhanian visited with intermedia artist Iain Baxter in his North Vancouver, British Columbia home. The residence doubled as the headquarters for an unusual corporation, called the N.E. Thing Co., Ltd.. ... |
| Thin Air Interview with Robert Ashley and William Maraldo |
57 min |
New Music
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic |
| Charles Amirkhanian interviews composers Robert Ashley and William Maraldo, who had just been named to co-direct the activities of the Mills Center for Contemporary Music starting September 1969. In addition to describing the origins and... |
| Thin Air Interview with Stanley Shaff and Douglas McEachern, creators of AUDIUM |
20 min |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
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| Charles Amirkhanian speaks with Stanley Shaff and Douglas McEachern about their creation, AUDIUM, a Theater in Sound located in San Francisco, California. This interview, one of the first done by Amirkhanian, who joined KPFA on 8 July... |
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