| Interview with La Monte Young, 1984 |
40 min |
Minimalism
Performance Art |
| Russ Jennings interviews composer La Monte Young and artist Marian Zazeela about their new collaborative work, “The Well Tuned Piano”. This piece was the culmination of a life long interest in just intonation on the part of Young... |
| Interview with Morton Feldman, July 1967 |
55 min |
20th Century Classical
New Music |
| This wide ranging, literate, and always fascinating conversation between composer Morton Feldman and writer/composer/journalist (and former KPFA music director) Charles Shere touches on the work of various composers, performers, artists,... |
| Interview with Mrs. Walter Haas |
32 min |
Modern Art
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| Mrs. Walter Haas, founder of the Michael and Sarah Stein collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art, recalls her friendship with the couple, (brother and sister-in-law of Gertrude Stein), after they fled Europe in 1938 and took up... |
| Interview with Philip Glass, April 18, 1983 |
35 min |
Minimalism
Music Theater |
| Philip Glass discusses his work “The Photographer”, a piece conceived as a play, a concert, and a dance in three acts which had, at the time of this recording, just been released on record. Glass and his ensemble were in the San... |
| Interview with Primous Fountain III |
53 min |
20th Century Classical
Jazz |
| Charles Amirkhanian talks with the African American composer, Primous Fountain III of Chicago, who traveled to the West Coast in 1972 to witness a performance of his “Manifestation” by the Oakland Symphony Orchestra. Also in the... |
| Interview with Terry Riley, 1983 |
81 min |
New Music
Minimalism |
| Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Terry Riley at his home in Northern California on June 11, 1983. Riley describes his early childhood experiences with music, his life as a student in San Francisco and his first experimentation with... |
| Interview with Ursula Block of Gelbe Musik |
30 min |
New Music
Avant-Garde |
| Join Charles Amirkhanian as he takes a walking tour through the renowned new music record and tape store in West Berlin known as Gelbe Musik (Yellow Music). His conversation with store manager Ursula Block while she plays samples of her... |
| Interview with Valery Gergiev |
56 min |
Classical Music
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| Charles Amirkhanian talks with Valery Gergiev, the leading Soviet conductor of his generation and the dynamic and sensitive protagonist of two 1990, San Francisco Symphony, subscription series concerts. Maestro Gergiev was the Artistic... |
| Interview with Witold Lutosławski |
36 min |
20th Century Classical
|
| Charles Amirkhanian interviews Polish composer and conductor, Witold Lutosławski. They discuss the political changes in Poland after the end of the Cold War and how that effected the ability to criticize the government and changed the... |
| Jerome Moross on George Antheil |
52 min |
20th Century Classical
New Music |
| Recorded in New York City on June 19, 1979, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Jerome Moross about his life-long friendship with George Antheil. Moross, a composer and conductor himself, met Antheil when he was living in New York in the early... |
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