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Ode To Gravity:
Barton and Priscilla McLean |
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| Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 112 min |
| Event Type: Interview and Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
Composer-performers Barton and Priscilla McLean of Austin Texas are Charles Amirkhanian’s guests on this edition of Ode to Gravity. This husband and wife duo introduce a number of their primarily electro-acoustic pieces. Their work often has an environmental or political dimension, as is the case with “The Last Ten Minutes,” which envisions a nuclear holocaust, and “Beneath the Horizon III” which combines whale songs with a tuba solo to create an evocative sense of longing. |
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| Musical Selections: |
Genesis [excerpt] / Barton McLean -- The Last Ten Minutes (1982) (12:00) / Barton McLean -- Beneath the Horizon III (1978) (13:30) / Priscilla McLean |
| Performers: |
Melvyn Poore, tuba (Beneath) |
| Genre: |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic |
| Subject: |
McLean, Barton, 1938-; McLean, Priscilla, 1942-; Electro-acoustic; Electronic music; Whale sounds; Animal sounds; Tuba music |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles; McLean, Barton, 1938-; McLean, Priscilla, 1942-; Poore, Melvyn |
| Recording Date: |
11/01/1982 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
11/01/1982 |
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| Musical Selections: |
Dimensions II, for piano and tape (1974) (11:25) / Barton McLean -- Invisible Chariots [1st movement] (6:30) (1975-77) / Priscilla McLean -- Dimensions VIII, for piano and tape (1981) (13:00) / Barton McLean -- Fantasies for Adults and Other Children: hist whist ; little tree [texts by e.e. cummings] (1980) (7:00) / Priscilla McLean |
| Performers: |
Robert Hamilton, piano (Dimensions II)
Barton McLean, piano (Dimensions VIII)
Nancy Hill, soprano (Fantasies)
Mark Saya, piano (Fantasies)
John Ferguson, piano (Fantasies) |
| Genre: |
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic |
| Subject: |
Electro-acoustic; Electronic music; Piano and electronic music; Songs (High voice) with piano; Prepared piano music |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles; McLean, Barton, 1938-; McLean, Priscilla, 1942-; Hamilton, Robert, 1937-; Hill, Nancy, vocalist; Saya, Mark, 1954-; Ferguson, John; Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 |
| Recording Date: |
11/01/1982 |
| First Broadcast Date: |
11/01/1982 |
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