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Morning Concert:
The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy, plus selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams & David Byrne |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 129 min |
| Event Type: Interview and Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
From 1991, the first Morning Concert broadcast from the then newly built KPFA studios, Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer and conductor Howard Hersh about his music and plays a selection of his compositions. Amirkhanian then devotes the rest of the show to selections of music for the hurdy-gurdy, as well as works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and David Byrne. |
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| Musical Selections: |
[unidentified piece] -- Sketches from life: Angels on the roof (1985) / Howard Hersh -- Lady Diamond -- Bourrée with No Name -- Satins Blanc -- Les Amusements d'une heure / Charles Baton -- Laridé |
| Performers: |
Music Now (Sketches from life)
Nigel Eaton, hurdy-gurdy (hurdy-gurdy music)
Cliff Stapleton, hurdy-gurdy (hurdy-gurdy music)
Lisa Povey, harpsichord, keyboards, synthesizer (hurdy-gurdy music)
Ian Luff, bass guitar (hurdy-gurdy music)
Paul James, bagpipes, saxophone synthesizers (hurdy-gurdy music) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Unconventional Instruments |
| Subject: |
Hersh, Howard; Eaton, Nigel; KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.); Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Hurdy-gurdy music; 20th century classical; String quartets; Unconventional instruments |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles; Hersh, Howard; Eaton, Nigel; Stapleton, Cliff; Povey, Lisa ; Luff, Ian; James, Paul, musician; Baton, Charles |
| Recording Date: |
9/27/1991 |
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| Musical Selections: |
Scottish -- Gloryflower -- Bourrees (3), Book 1, No. 3 -- Serenade to Music [text by William Shakespeare] (1938) / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- The Forest: Asuka / David Byrne |
| Performers: |
Nigel Eaton, hurdy-gurdy (hurdy-gurdy music)
Cliff Stapleton, hurdy-gurdy (hurdy-gurdy music)
Lisa Povey, harpsichord, keyboards, synthesizer (hurdy-gurdy music)
Ian Luff, bass guitar (hurdy-gurdy music)
Paul James, bagpipes, saxophone synthesizers (hurdy-gurdy music)
New York Virtuosi: (Serenade)
Kenneth Klein conductor (Serenade)
Grayson Hirst, tenor solo (Serenade
Joel Pitchon, violin solo (Serenade)
L. William Kuyper, horn solo (Serenade)
Jimmie Haskel, conductor (The Forest) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; Unconventional Instruments |
| Subject: |
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra; 20th century classical; Songs (High voice) with orchestra; Unconventional instruments; New Age music |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles; Eaton, Nigel; Stapleton, Cliff ; Povey, Lisa ; Luff, Ian; James, Paul, musician; Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Haskel, Jimmie; Klein, Kenneth, 1939-; Hirst, Grayson; Pitchon, Joel; Kuyper, L. William; Byrne, David, 1952- |
| Recording Date: |
9/27/1991 |
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