Morning Concert:
The Music of Robert Hughes and the Poetry of Ezra Pound

Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer, bassoonist, and conductor, Robert Hughes, one of the liveliest figures in San Francisco Bay Area music, and for many years conductor of the nationally prominent Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra. Hughes plays a selection of his works, largely in chronological order. The final four pieces in this program feature acoustic sounds juxtaposed against quadraphonic tapes realized primarily on Moog equipment at Mills College. Hughes is also one of the leading authorities on Ezra Pound. In 1958 he visited Pound at a mental institution in Washington D. C. Hughes reminisces about Pound, and we hear the poet reading from his works. (from KPFA Folio)