| Peter Yates interviewed by Charles Shere |
43 min |
New Music
Interactive Art |
| 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... |
| Pierre Boulez on Music, 1958 |
49 min |
Avant-Garde
New Music |
| In an program recorded in March of 1958, the French composer Pierre Boulez is interviewed by Alan Rich, Robert Erickson and a panel of distinguished and learned musicologists and composers. Sounding at times like a doctoral dissertation... |
| Press Conference of Harold Farberman, Feb. 1970 |
24 min |
Orchestral Music
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| On February 26, 1970, Harold Farberman was presented to the San Francisco Bay Area media as the new Musical Director of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra during this press conference. Farberman was to succeed Gerhard Samuel, who had made... |
| Shibui Is The Word |
62 min |
20th Century Classical
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| Shibui is a Japanese word for an aesthetic that is both simple, subtle and quietly beautiful. In this program, first recorded in 1961, Heuwell Tircuit, American music critic in Tokyo, explains how this aesthetic is the key to the success... |
| Shostakovich Memorial with Nicolas Slonimsky, (August 11, 1975) |
10 min |
20th Century Classical
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| Russian American musicologist, composer and conductor Nicolas Slonimsky talks by phone with KPFK Music Director David Cloud about the music and life of the "Russian Modern Romanticist", Dmitriĭ Shostakovich. This touching memorial to one... |
| Terry Riley on Pandit Pran Nath |
41 min |
World Music
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| Charles Amirkhanian and Harvey Wallerstein talk with composers Terry Riley and Jordan Stenberg about their studies with Pandit Pran Nath, a master of Indian vocal music. They describe Pran Nath’s spiritual approach to music, and his... |
| The Legacy of SPA Records |
21 min |
Classical Music
20th Century Classical |
| Charles Amirkhanian interviews Norman Fox, president of the legendary SPA Recordings label and Hannah Adler, wife of the late F. Charles Adler, former A & R (Artists and Repertory) Director and musical mastermind at SPA. Initiated at the... |
| Underground Woman: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel by Kay Boyle |
40 min |
Literature
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| Erik Bauersfeld and Lee Jenkins of KPFA interview poet, author, and political activist, Kay Boyle, about her 1975 novel “The Underground Woman.” The novel, which is semi-autobiographical, follows the life of classics professor... |
| Vladimir Golschmann on George Antheil |
65 min |
New Music
20th Century Classical |
| Charles Amirkhanian interviews the Russian-French conductor Vladimir Golschmann about his friendship with George Antheil and his role as a conductor of a number of Antheil’s pieces in the late 1920s in Europe. Golschmann relates how he... |
| William S. Burroughs Press Conference at the Berkeley Museum of Art, Nov. 12, 1974 |
39 min |
Literature
Current Events |
| At a press conference for an unidentified occasion, William S. Burroughs fields an array of questions and discusses his relationships with, or opinions of, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Jose Delgado, and Alfred Korzybski,... |
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