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11. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8, Concert 2: 01 “Sonata for Harpsichord” by Lou Harrison [0.141% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8, Concert 2: 01 “Sonata for Harpsichord” by Lou Harrison Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 10 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Lou Harrison's output of solo keyboard music spans his entire career, with some works he now prefers on harpsichord originally designated ‘for keyboard,' ‘for cembalo,' ‘for piano or harpsichord,' ‘for piano,' or even ‘for tack piano' (used also in mid-century as a harpsichord substitute). The opportunity to perform these works on various early keyboard instruments gives rise to creative solutions, for example, in tempo and idiomatic ornamentation. Beyond this, the attack and decay characteristics of each instrument subtly suggest which historic or occasional temperament will best support the structure and affect of each piece. “Sonata for Harpsichord” was composed by Harrison for Linda Burman-Hall to play on the eve of 2000. It offers three contrasting moods based on modal scales: a bustling, ...

12. radiOM.org - Worldwide Music 25th Anniversary Concert of Gaudeamus (1970) [2.837% Popularity: 0.00000]

Worldwide Music: 25th Anniversary Concert of Gaudeamus (1970) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 91 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Host Han Reiziger of VPRO (Dutch Radio) presents a puzzling concert, recorded in 1970 at the Concertgebouw of Haarlem, the Netherlands, with music by young Dutch composers Jan Welmers, Wim Schoenbeck, Gilius van Bergeyk, Daan Manneke, Wim de Ruiter, and Jacques Bank. All interspersed with selected underground tapes of Dutch Dixieland performances and camp arrangements for brass choir. Gaudeamus is an organization for the promotion of new music begun in 1945 by Walter Maas. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: [unidentified piece for brass band] -- Wind Quintet 68 / Jan Welmers -- Orientates (sp?) / Wim Schoenbeck (sp?) -- [unidentified piece for brass band] -- Sonata, for alto oboe, piano, ring modulator, and loudspeakers (1970) / Gilius van Bergeyk -- Diaspora (1969) / Daan Manneke -- [unidentified piece for brass band] -- Quartet, for flute, bass clarinet, ...

13. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8: Djerassi Resident Artists Program Panel Discussions (March 2002) [0.018% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8: Djerassi Resident Artists Program Panel Discussions (March 2002) View Item Type: Video Duration: 5hr 12min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Prior to each annual Other Minds Festival the featured composers have traditionally gathered together for a number of days at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA., to meet each other and offer presentations about their works. In this program, recorded from March 3-5, 2002, you get the rare and invaluable opportunity of sitting in on these far ranging and interactive discussions, which provide insight into each composer’s early experiences and style of composing. In part one of this program, Charles Amirkhanian provides a brief introduction before Festival photographer John Fago attempts to put all the participants at ease about being on camera by showing some samples of his superb still photographs taken during earlier Festivals. Lou Harrison then talks about his style of composing and his use ...

14. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 (video) [1.769% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 (video) View Item Type: Video Duration: 175 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) This first part of this program begins with the concluding performance from the first concert of the OM 8 Festival held on March 7, 2002. The composition is “New Work,” an improvisation by The Circle Trio, Pauline Oliveros, accordion, India Cook, violin, and Karolyn van Putten, voice. The second concert of OM 8 Festival, held on March 8, 2002, then begins with a panel discussion moderated by Charles Amirkhanian and featuring Richard Teitelbaum, Tom Buckner, and composers Annea Lockwood, Lou Harrison. Teitelbaum talks about how his interest in shakuhachi music led him to collaborate with some of the great Japanese masters of the instrument and influenced many of his electro-acoustic compositions. Lou Harrison then demonstrates the tack piano, for which he thinks he has composed the only work for its sol...

15. radiOM.org - Frank Zappa Day [2.912% Popularity: 0.00000]

Frank Zappa Day Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 240 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA On February 10, 1986, as part of its fund raising marathon, KPFA dedicated an entire day of programming to the music of Frank Zappa, including this four hour long segment, during which Zappa joined Charles Amirkhanian, live in the studio to talk about his work and his fight against censorship, as well as to take part in an hour long panel discussion on gang violence and its relationship to rock music and Satanism. Although much of the time is taken up with pleas for money, Zappa manages to insert his brand of sardonic humor into all the activities, be it personally promising donors will go to heaven, or urging the police to investigate the crimes committed by born-again Christians. The give and take with KPFA listeners during a call-in period following the panel discussions is not to be missed. Zappa also reveals a few nuggets of trivia including the origin of those crazy conversations foun...

16. radiOM.org - Han Reiziger reception at 1750 Arch St. [2.838% Popularity: 0.00000]

Han Reiziger reception at 1750 Arch St. Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 46 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: C Amirkhanian Additional Media Files (click to view) A live recording of a musical reception held at 1750 Arch St. to welcome Dutch radio producer Han Reiziger (1934-2006) to KPFA. Reiziger was the long standing musical director at VPRO, a Dutch radio station that was known worldwide for its adventurous and avant-garde musical programming. In an exchange program with the Pacifica Radio network that saw KPFA’s Charles Amirkhanian spend several months in Holland, Reiziger came to Berkeley California for a four month stint in 1974-75, where he produced numerous programs on Dutch musical life. Musical Selections: Fiddle Music (1923-24) / Ezra Pound -- Soundpiece No. 3 (1936) / John J. Becker -- Short Story (ca. 1922) / George Gershwin [arr. by Samuel Dushkin for violin and piano from Gershwin's "Two Novelettes" for piano] Performers: Ronald Erickson, violin (Fiddle Music; Soun...

17. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity A Concert of American Music for Violin and Piano [0.642% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: A Concert of American Music for Violin and Piano Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 109 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From 1982, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a concert of violin and piano music by American composers, some obscure and some well known. The music is performed live in the KPFA studio, by the San Francisco duo, violinist Greg Mazmanian and pianist Robert Hagopian. The works range from an early romantic sonata by John Alden Carpenter, to more modern sounding sonatas by Henry Cowell, and Aaron Copland. Also included are two works by Alan Hovhaness, the haunting opus one, “Oror (’Lullaby’)” and the perhaps better known “Khirgiz Suite”. The concert concludes with “Hexapoda” by Robert Russell Bennett. Charles provides background information about each of the pieces as well as a brief introduction of the performers. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Sonata, for violin and piano (1911) (23:43) / John Alden Carpenter -- Sonata, for violin and piano (1945) (18:13) / H...

18. radiOM.org - Interview with Martha Anne Verbit [4.003% Popularity: 0.00000]

Interview with Martha Anne Verbit Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 34 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Boston pianist Martha Anne Verbit, a native of Georgia, visits with Charles Amirkhanian, who plays a number of Verbit's recordings as well as excerpts from a recent performance Verbit gave at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. They also discuss the matter of interpreting George Gershwin, George Antheil, and other composers. Verbit feels that pianists are often better interpreters of pieces than the composers themselves are. Musical Selections: Twelve Sonatinas for Piano, Nos. 1, 3, 8, & 9 (1978-80) / John Diercks -- I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise (1922) / George Gershwin -- Oh, Lady Be Good / George Gershwin -- An Old Soft Shoe / Joseph Fennimore -- La Diva de l'Empire (1904) / Erik Satie Performers: Martha Anne Verbit, piano Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: Verbit, Martha Anne ; 20th century classical ; Sonatas (Piano) ; Piano music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; ...

19. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity School of Holography, Antheil's Flute Sonata, & Assorted Readings over music [2.839% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: School of Holography, Antheil's Flute Sonata, & Assorted Readings over music Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian speaks with Lloyd Cross and Jerry Pethick, the cofounders of the School of Holography in San Francisco, about the art of holography. Also presented is the first broadcast performance of George Antheil's 1951 “Sonata, for flute and piano”. The last half of the show consists of Amirkhanian reading a communication from David Graham entitled "Logic, or If it works it's obsolete"; poems by Clark Coolidge and James Schuyler; and other works from the magazine “Gum, Issue 6”; as well as a piece on modern art by Allan Kaprow, all while music softly plays in the background. Musical Selections: Sonata, for flute and piano (1951) (12:16) / George Antheil -- [unidentified women's chorus] Performers: Jane Lenoir, flute (Sonata) Madeline Bruiser, piano (Sonata) Genres: Modern Art ; Poetry Subject: Art and holog...

20. radiOM.org - Morning Concert A Live Piano Concert by Martha Anne Verbit [4.891% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: A Live Piano Concert by Martha Anne Verbit Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 138 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Pianist Martha Anne Verbit performs live in the KPFA studio on the station’s Bösendorfer grand piano, and talks with Charles Amirkhanian about her excursions into the sensuous, mystical, and arcane reaches of early 20th century piano music, as well as giving biographical information about each of the composers featured in this concert. Verbit has recorded an album of music by Cyril Scott for Genesis Records, and is an expert performer of Scriabin’s music. She has given solo recitals at Lincoln Center, the Phillips Gallery in Washington DC, and London’s Wigmore Hall. In this live concert, recorded on July 7, 1975, she performs works by Karol Szymanowski, Leo Ornstein, Cyril Scott, William Baines, and Alexander Scriabin. Joining Verbit and Amirkhanian is John Diercks, Chairman of the Music Department at Hollins College in Virginia, a former teacher ...