Morning Concert:
An Interview with Joan La Barbara & Morton Subotnick

In a program recorded in 1979, Charles Amirkhanian talks with guests Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick. La Barbara is a singer and composer working with extended vocal techniques. She was also the new music critic of the magazine “Musical America”, and she and Charles critique a concert by Philip Glass. Morton Subotnick is one of America's foremost electronic composers and has taught at CalArts and has also lectured extensively around the world. In this program he discusses his work "Ghost Pieces". The three also talk about the differences, or lack of them, between East Coast and West Coast music scenes, and the Uptown and Downtown schools of music.