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11. radiOM.org - A Concert in Honor of Gerhard Samuel [0.593% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert in Honor of Gerhard Samuel Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 87 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A concert given in honor of Gerhard Samuel, recorded February 1, 1971 at the Fireman's Fund Theater in San Francisco. Samuel was a talented conductor and composer who was very active in the Bay Area during the 1960s and early 1970s, serving as musical director of the Oakland Symphony (1959-71), the San Francisco Ballet (1961-71) and the Cabrillo Music Festival (1963-68). He was well-known as a stalwart supporter of contemporary classical music and was responsible for exposing a whole generation of Northern California audiences to works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Terry Riley, and Henry Brant, among others. This concert features music by Niccolò Castiglioni, Luis de Pablo, Charles Boone, Jean-Phillippe Rameau, and Gerhard Samuel, and is performed by a variety of accomplished Bay Area musicians. Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: Alef (1965) / Niccolò Castiglioni -- Cesuras (1963) / Luis de...

12. radiOM.org - A Concert of New Music (August 26, 1963) [1.493% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert of New Music (August 26, 1963) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 63 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A recording of a concert of new music held on August 26, 1963 at the Pocket Theatre in New York City as a benefit for the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. According to a New York Times review the star of the event was a rhythmic music machine created by the Fluxus artist and composer Joe Jones. The machine, called a Melchior (sp?), looked like a coat tree and included two violins, metronomes, a clock, some Japanese wood chimes, a fan, and apparently a small steam engine, under which soloist Alison Knowles attempted to start a fire, alas to no avail. However although the steam engine never got fired up the resulting sounds from the other parts of the machine proved quite pleasant to the ear. Other works heard during this event, (and not necessarily in the original order), included “Ergodos 2/3/” an electronic tape piece by James Tenney, and a wind trio with tape called...

13. radiOM.org - A Concert of New Music By The Ensemble, (November 18, 1973) [0.677% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert of New Music By The Ensemble, (November 18, 1973) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 80 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A concert given Nov. 18, 1973 by the Ensemble at the Berkeley Piano Club, in Berkeley California. Works include three songs by Charles Shere from a work-in-progress based on texts by Marcel Duchamp; “Valid for Life,” a percussive piece by Beth Anderson; “Breaths,” a spontaneously performed work devised by Howard Moscovitz; and “Dark Night of Resistance,” a cantata by Julian White, using the words of Daniel Berrigan and St. John of the Cross. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: Ground Glass et Reuilles [text by Marcel Duchamp] (ca. 1973) (0:40) / Charles Shere -- Perhaps Use a Less Transparent [text by Marcel Duchamp] (ca. 1973) (4:27) / Charles Shere -- Classify Combs [text by Marcel Duchamp] (1973) (1:16) / Charles Shere -- Valid for Life (10:02) / Beth Anderson Performers: The Ensemble: Anna Carol Dudley, soprano (all songs) Beth Anderson, piano...

14. radiOM.org - A Concert of Works by Robert Moran and Morton Feldman (August 31, 1968) [2.098% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert of Works by Robert Moran and Morton Feldman (August 31, 1968) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 21 mins Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded at the De Young Museum in San Francisco on August 31, 1968, this program features two works by Robert Moran and Morton Feldman. The first piece heard is the world premiere of “Scream Kiss No. 1,”a theatrical work for harpsichord and pre-recorded tape by Robert Moran, and performed here by Margaret Fabrizio on the harpsichord. This work was used in a film realization by Paul Crowley, which also featured Ms. Fabrizio on screen, however it is uncertain whether the film was shown during this performance. This piece is followed by “Four Instruments” by Morton Feldman, a very quiet and meditative work of aleatoric music. The San Francisco Bay Area was a center of avant-garde contemporary classical music in the latter half of the 20th century and this recording captures some of that adventurous musical programing, and should be of interest to any ...

15. radiOM.org - American Mavericks My Lunch with Mel Powell: An American Musical Feast [0.748% Popularity: 0.00000]

American Mavericks: My Lunch with Mel Powell: An American Musical Feast Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KUSC Mel Powell could probably never have been anything but an American. He was a marvelous talker, a consummate raconteur with a sonorous storyteller's voice to make the tales more mesmerizing. He grew up in a building that overlooked Yankee Stadium. He even gave up baseball to save his thumbs for the piano. He played jazz, very well but very briefly. It’s been said that no jazz musician of comparable stature has ever had such a short career as Powell, because, in a very American way, he became weary of playing the same tune night after night with the Benny Goodman Band. First he tried Hollywood, and spent some time composing for MGM movies. Then he made a major change: he shipped himself off to Yale to study with Paul Hindemith. With this act, he not only started a new career as a classical composer, but also became an educator: one so dedicated t...

16. radiOM.org - An Avant-Garde Christmas Concert by the S.F. Conservatory of New Music Ensemble, (Dec. 3, 1970) [0.702% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Avant-Garde Christmas Concert by the S.F. Conservatory of New Music Ensemble, (Dec. 3, 1970) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 81 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA On December 3, 1970 the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble presented this Avant-Garde Christmas Concert, at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. The concert begins with “The Queens’ Funeral March and Canzona,” which was originally composed by Henry Purcell as incidental music for a play but was used for the funeral procession of Queen Mary in 1695. It has been orchestrated here by Robert Moran. This is followed by Purcell’s “Fantazia No. 6” and a reprise of the “March,” all orchestrated by Moran in which no notes have been added or subtracted, but merely reassigned to different instruments. We then hear an original composition by Moran, based on a simple two voice musical example by Purcell and entitled “Variations for Mr. Purcell.” The concert then takes a distinctly more modern turn with Shinʾichi Matsushita aleat...

17. radiOM.org - An Interview with Ernest Gold [0.639% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Interview with Ernest Gold Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 55 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews Viennese composer and conductor Ernest Gold. At the time of this recording Gold was living in Los Angeles where he made his living largely by composing for the stage and the screen. He describes the process by which one synchronizes the music to film, and bemoans the fact that when composing for TV one is usually given just a couple of weeks to come up with 90 minutes of material. Also discussed is Gold’s interest in conducting, playing tennis, and horseback riding. Musical Selections: Symphony for Five Instruments (1952) / Ernest Gold -- Boston Pops March (1966) / Ernest Gold Performers: Roman Rudnytsky, piano (Symphony) Israel Baker Ensemble: (Symphony) Israel Baker, violin (Symphony) David Schwartz, viola (Symphony) Jeffrey Solow, violoncello (Symphony) Norman Herzberg, bassoon (Symphony) Ernest Gold, conductor (Symphony) Boston Pops Orchestra (March) Ar...

18. radiOM.org - An Interview with Violinist Vera Beths [0.953% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Interview with Violinist Vera Beths Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 5 min Event Type: Interview Additional Media Files (click to view) A short interview with Dutch violinist Vera Beths, recorded during the 1981 Cabrillo Music Festival. In her discussion with Carl Stone, Beths describes how she came across the music of George Antheil and the difficulties she had in learning to play it. She also talks about her Stradivarius violin and her relationship with contemporary composers Philip Glass and John Adams. Genre: New Music Subject: Antheil, George, 1900-1959 ; New music People: Stone, Carl, 1953- ; Beths, Vera Recording Date: 8/22/1981 Listen...

19. radiOM.org - Astor Piazzolla: Tango Assassin [0.426% Popularity: 0.00000]

Astor Piazzolla: Tango Assassin Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 117 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program recorded in 1989, Charles Amirkhanian interviews two Bay Area musicians who are very familiar with the work of the remarkable composer and bandoneon player, Astor Piazzolla. Marta Bracchi-LeRoux, is a pianist, and native of Montevideo, Uruguay, one of the birthplaces of the tango, and where she was acquainted as a young musician with Piazzolla and his work, even before he began to compose his nuevo tangos. She and her husband, the French conductor and oboe player, Jean-Louis LeRoux, are now known for founding the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and for their tireless promotion of avant-garde composers. But in the early 1950s, they participated in the world premiere of Piazzolla’s “Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra” in Montevideo where Piazzolla and other Buenos Aires residents frequently traveled for performances as well as occasional vacations. Marta and Jean-L...

20. radiOM.org - Brian Eno Day (February 12, 1988) [0.310% Popularity: 0.00000]

Brian Eno Day (February 12, 1988) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 11 hrs 15 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) On February 12, 1988, KPFA dedicated an entire day to take a closer look at the music and career of Brian Eno, one of the most influential composer, performer, producer, and visual artist of our times. Eno joins Charles Amirkhanian in the studios of KPFA to assist in hosting a day of his music. In a number of far ranging interviews, some previously recorded and some live in the studio, Eno discusses his English adolescence and early musical influences, as well as sharing stories about his work as a producer of famous rock bands such as U2, Devo, and the Talking Heads, as well as his own musical collaborations with Harold Budd, David Byrne, and others. A relatively complete review of his work as composer, performer, and producer is heard, including selections from his early rock albums and ambient recordings, along with a discuss...