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Morning Concert:
Philip Glass meets Phalen Tassie |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 121 min |
| Event Type: Interview and Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
Charles Amirkhanian hosts a variety of characters on this show: "Philip Glass meets Phalen Tassie." A series of outlandish guests, including a preposterous pan-musicologist from London, keep a KPFA fundraising drive entertaining, as Amirkhanian presents excerpts from Glass's album, “Dance Nos. 1-5”, and selections from “Phalen Tassie Sings American Contemporary Songs”. Tassie, a former faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, displays her unique vocal delivery in works by Aaron Copland, Otto Luening, John Duke, and other mid-century American composers. The program concludes with Glass' “Façades”, and “Chinese Seasons” by Roger Nixon. |
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| Musical Selections: |
Dance No. 3 [excerpt] (1979) / Philip Glass -- The Night Will Never Stay [text by Eleanor Farjeon] / [composer unknown] -- Joy [text by Langston Hughes] / Howard Swanson -- Dance Nos. 1-5 [excerpt] / Philip Glass -- A Death Song [excerpt, text by Paul Laurence Dunbar ] / [composer unknown] -- Dance No. 3 [excerpt] (1979) / Philip Glass -- For a Dead Kitten [text by Sarah Henderson Hay] / John Duke -- Rapunzel [ text by Adelaide Crapsey] / John Duke -- I like to see it lap the miles and lick the valleys up [text by Emily Dickinson] / Dorothy Nolan -- If I can stop one heart from breaking [text by Emily Dickinson] / Otto Luening -- I've heard an organ talk sometimes [text by Emily Dickinson] / Aaron Copland -- Going to Heaven [text by Emily Dickinson] / Aaron Copland |
| Performers: |
Phalen Tassie, voice (selected songs)
LeRoy Miller, piano (selected songs)
Philip Glass Ensemble: (Dance)
Philip Glass, farfisa organ (Dance)
Michael Reisman, keyboard (Dance)
Iris Hiskey, voice (Dance)
Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone (Dance)
Jack Kripl, (soprano saxophone (Dance)
Richard Peck, alto saxophone (Dance) |
| Genres: |
Minimalism; Art Songs |
| Subject: |
Glass, Philip; Tassie, Phalen; San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Minimal music; Art songs; Songs (High voice) with piano |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles ; Plush, Vincent, 1950-; Trench, Sir Godfrey Cyril, pseudonym; Switzer, Loubelle, pseudonym; Glass, Philip; Tassie, Phalen; Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881-1965; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967; Swanson, Howard, 1907-1978; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Hay, Sarah Henderson; Duke, John, 1899-1984; Crapsey, Adelaide, 1878-1914; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Nolan, Dorothy ; Luening, Otto, 1900-1996; Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990; Miller, LeRoy, pianist; Reisman, Michael; Hiskey, Iris; Gibson, Jon; Kripl, Jack; Peck, Richard |
| Recording Date: |
6/15/1989 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
6/15/1989 |
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| Musical Selections: |
Dance Nos. 1-5 [excerpt] / Philip Glass -- Façades / Philip Glass -- If you should go [excerpt from “Songs of Separation”, text by Countee Cullen] / William Grant Still -- Chinese Seasons / Roger Nixon |
| Performers: |
Phalen Tassie, voice (selected songs)
LeRoy Miller, piano (selected songs)
Philip Glass Ensemble: (Dance ; Façades)
Philip Glass, farfisa organ (Dance ; Façades)
Michael Reisman, keyboard (Dance ; Façades)
Iris Hiskey, voice (Dance ; Façades)
Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone (Dance ; Façades)
Jack Kripl, soprano saxophone (Dance ; Façades)
Richard Peck, alto saxophone (Dance ; Façades)
Loretta Bone, soprano (Chinese)
Frances Pierce McKnight, piano (Chinese) |
| Genres: |
Minimalism; Art Songs |
| Subject: |
Glass, Philip; Tassie, Phalen; Minimal music; Art songs; Songs (High voice) with piano |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles ; Plush, Vincent, 1950-; Trench, Sir Godfrey Cyril, pseudonym; Glass, Philip; Tassie, Phalen; Miller, LeRoy, pianist; Reisman, Michael; Hiskey, Iris; Gibson, Jon; Kripl, Jack; Peck, Richard; Couture, Raymond; Swami Ananda Ragamuffin, pseudonym; Bone, Loretta ; McKnight, Frances Pierce ; Still, William Grant, 1895-1978; Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946; Nixon, Roger, 1921- |
| Recording Date: |
6/15/1989 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
6/15/1989 |
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