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11. radiOM.org - ChamberBridge Messiaen Illuminated - Concert III (Nov. 15, 2008, 8 PM) [1.982% Popularity: 0.00000]

ChamberBridge: Messiaen Illuminated - Concert III (Nov. 15, 2008, 8 PM) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 66 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: ChamberBridge This is the third of three concerts given on November 15, 2008 performed by chamber duo ChamberBridge (Lara Bruckmann, soprano and Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano), and also featuring the Del Sol String Quartet, Mary Chun, and members of the SFSoundGroup. The performances highlight the works of Olivier Messiaen, along with works by his teachers and influences, such as Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel and Claude Debussy, through to the 2nd and 3rd generations of his students, including Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Ed Campion, Ron Bruce Smith and George Benjamin. Of special note are rare performances of song cycles by Messiaen’s first wife Claire Delbos (both composed on texts by Messiaen’s mother, the accomplished poet Cecile Sauvage), and the premieres of two newly commissioned works by young Bay Area composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Mei-Fang Lin...

12. radiOM.org - Comparatively Speaking Transcriptions of Bach’s Chorales & Sonatas [0.743% Popularity: 0.00000]

Comparatively Speaking: Transcriptions of Bach’s Chorales & Sonatas Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 65 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Originally broadcast in February 1980, Matthew Holdreith presents another program in his Comparatively Speaking series, in which he examines various transcriptions of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. In this recording, a number of Bach’s chorale preludes, fugues, and organ sonatas are presented in their original form, juxtaposed with some of the more famous arrangements of those same works, by a variety of composers, conductors, and musicians. Ranging from the elegantly reverential piano transcriptions of Myra Hess, Ferruccio Busoni, and Egon Petri, to the much reviled bombastic orchestral interpretations of Leopold Stokowski, and the delightful yet perhaps inappropriately airy arrangements by Mozart, these recordings are a testimony to the inspiration that the imaginative versatility of the Baroque master has provided to those that have...

13. radiOM.org - Concerts by Composers No. 13: Works by Scott Johnson, Moniek Darge, Godfried-Willem Raes, & David Gibson [2.917% Popularity: 0.00000]

Concerts by Composers: No. 13: Works by Scott Johnson, Moniek Darge, Godfried-Willem Raes, & David Gibson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Experimental Intermedia Foundation held a series of exciting concerts of avant-garde and electro-acoustic music at Phill Niblock’s loft in the SoHo district of New York City. These concerts were then packaged into a series of hour-long radio programs entitled “Concerts by Composers” and distributed to interested radio stations around the United States. This thirteenth program in the series features music by Scott Johnson, Moniek Darge, Godfried-Willem Raes, & David Gibson. The program begins with composer and sound sculptor Scott Johnson discussing his interest in composing music that incorporates the types of instruments and technologies that permeate modern society. We then hear Johnson perform the last two movements of his “Sonata for Electric Guitar and Harmonizer” recorded a...

14. radiOM.org - Evening Concert Nicolas Slonimsky [2.825% Popularity: 0.00000]

Evening Concert: Nicolas Slonimsky Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 115 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian provides a brief background sketch of the life and music of Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950), who composed during both Tsarist and Stalinist Russia. A recording of the composer's “Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor”, Op. 81 is heard. This is followed by what may be some of the most hilarious, but informative, moments in musicology ever broadcast. After Amirkhanian reads the section in the recently published “Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians” (6th Edition) written by Nicolas Slonimsky on himself (a very funny exercise in hyper-humility), the microphone is turned over to Slonimsky at his home in Los Angeles, and what follows provides an indication of the extent of his wit and genius. Amirkhanian then reads selected passages from the Dictionary and the program concludes with music, first a selection from Sergei ...

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 - George Antheil Hertz Hall Concert [2.322% Popularity: 0.00000]

George Antheil Hertz Hall Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 61 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) On November 20, 1970, KPFA and Charles Amirkhanian presented a concert featuring many of the early works of George Antheil to a sold-out Hertz Hall on the U. C. Berkeley campus. This historic concert launched a revival of interest in Antheil's early music, most of which had not been performed since the mid-1920s. The program features “Airplane Sonata”, “Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano with drums”, “La Femme 100 Têtes”, “Five Songs (on the Text of Adelaide Crapsey)”, and “Symphony for Five Instruments”. During the actual concert images of the etching by Max Ernst that were the inspiration for the 45 preludes that comprise “La Femme 100 Têtes” were projected. The concert also included a showing of the experimental film “Ballet Mécanique” by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, with cinematography by Man Ray for which Antheil had composed the score, howe...

17. radiOM.org - George Antheil: String Quartet No. 1 [2.835% Popularity: 0.00000]

George Antheil: String Quartet No. 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 31 min Event Type: Music and Interview Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian discusses the challenges in performing George Antheil's Violin Sonata and String Quartet No. 1 with Antheil's wife and Anne Kish, a violinist. The tape starts with a discussion, recorded in the Berkeley home of Jeanne Stark, of Antheil’s 1923 “Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano” with Ann Kish, Böske Antheil, Jeanne Stark, and Charles Amirkhanian. This is followed by an interesting discussion of Antheil's importance by Kish, and comments by the composer's widow reminiscing about the early performances by Olga Rudge and Antheil of this music. The program concludes with a performance of Antheil's “Quartet No. 1 for Strings” (1924), probably the first one since the mid-1920s. Until that time the score had languished in the composer's personal archive. NOTE: The discussion is rather "off-mic" but intelligible. Musical Selections: Violin So...

18. radiOM.org - Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert [3.977% Popularity: 0.00000]

Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 121 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This four part program is of a live broadcast from a concert given at 1750 Arch Street on February 3, 1974, in honor of Gertrude Stein on the 100th anniversary of her birth. During the intermission and while the audience viewed the film "The Last Still Life" by Ann Sandifer, Charles Amirkhanian plays a recording of a Suite from Virgil Thomson's opera, "The Mother of Us All", based on a text by Gertrude Stein. The live concert then concludes with an additional work by Thomson and one by Charles Shere. Part 1 of 4: Musical Selections: Miss Gertrude Stein as a Young Girl (1928) / Virgil Thomson -- A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (1922) / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla [text by Gertrude Stein] (1926) / Virgil Thomson -- She She and She (1974) / Charles Amirkhanian -- Sonata No.3 (1930) / Virgil Thomson Performers: Ron Erickson, violin (Stein as a young...

19. 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...

20. radiOM.org - Holy, Holy, Holy: Antheil's Magic Lacunae [2.829% Popularity: 0.00000]

Holy, Holy, Holy: Antheil's Magic Lacunae Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 56 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) On April 10, 1927, George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique, scored for multiple pianos and percussion (including airplane propellers and electric doorbells) was given its American premiere at Carnegie Hall. An exciting discovery by Mrs. George Antheil of Los Angeles and KPFA's Charles Amirkhanian sheds extraordinary light on the genius of Antheil's early music. Gathering dust on the shelves of Mrs. Antheil's archives has been a set of three player piano rolls of the Ballet Mécanique in its original longer version (longer than the 1953 revised version which is best-known and runs only about 17 minutes in performance). This document, realized mechanically by the Pleyela Company to Antheil's carefully notated specifications, conforms to the original 1924 version of the work and contains evidence of a musicologically significant rediscovery. Ant...