| Ashish Khan: Young Master of the Sarod |
48 min |
World Music
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| Ashish Khan (born 1939), a recognized master of the sarod, performs two ragas, accompanied by Alla Rakha, on tabla and Amiya Das Gupta, on tamboura. This performance was recorded in the 1960s when Khan was still a relatively young man. A... |
| Astor Piazzolla: Tango Assassin |
117 min |
World Music
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| From a program recorded in 1989, Charles Amirkhanian interviews two Bay Area musicians who are very familiar with the work of the remarkable composer and bandoneon player, Astor Piazzolla. Marta Bracchi-LeRoux, is a pianist, and native of... |
| Avant-Garde Trombone Studio Concert |
105 min |
Avant-Garde
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic |
| Stuart Dempster, principal trombonist of the Oakland Symphony, and faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory and San Francisco State College, presents a recital of six premieres, including three works commissioned by himself. This... |
| B.A.S.E. - Bay Area Synthesizer Ensemble |
52 min |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
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| In 1974, the first and only Bay Area Synthesizer Ensemble (B.A.S.E.) was formed. This was an ensemble of electronic music studios at the University of California in Berkeley, radio station KPFA in Berkeley, the San Francisco Conservatory,... |
| Beat and Bow: Tabla and Sarangi Performances |
39 min |
World Music
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| Three pieces of instrumental Hindustani music. The first work is for solo tabla and is the Teental rhythm (a cycle of 16 beats). The second piece is a Raga for sarangi and tabla and is also in the Teental rhythm. The third work is also... |
| Beverly Bellows Harp Concert |
47 min |
New Music
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic |
| Beverly Bellows performs on the harp in a live concert from the KPFA studios on March 5, 1973. Works heard include a number of compositions by Lou Harrison and three pieces for harp by 16th and 17th century Spanish masters. Joining... |
| Bland I by Bengt Emil Johnson |
16 min |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic
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| Recorded in stereo quadraphonic and given the rather obscure title of “1/1970; (Bland) [(among)] I” this is an engaging piece of electronic music by the Swedish composer and sound poet Bengt Emil Johnson. In assembling a variety of... |
| Blues from the Green Earth Café |
91 min |
Popular Music
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| Excerpts from a benefit concert for KPFA, held at the Green Earth Café in San Francisco on April 16, 1977, featuring a number of relatively obscure Bay Area blues musicians. The program begins with the down home blues music of harpist J.... |
| Blurp! by Peg Ahrens |
8 min |
Sound Poetry
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| Originally conceived as the soundtrack for a video sculpture piece, Blurp!, is a collage of strange vocalizations, recorded individually and then mixed together by Peg Ahrens in 1974. The sounds, all made by the human voice, vary from... |
| Chamber Concerto by Robert Erickson |
21 min |
20th Century Classical
New Music |
| Ralph Shapey conducts the Hartt Chamber Players in a performance of Robert Erickson’s “Chamber Concerto”, composed in 1960. Born in Michigan in 1917, Erickson studied composition with Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions, before... |
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