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101. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Vincent Plush (1983) [0.605% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Vincent Plush (1983) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 83 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program recorded in 1983, Charles Amirkhanian is joined in the KPFA studios by the Australian composer Vincent Plush, who was in the United States for an extended fellowship at Yale University. Amirkhanian questions Plush about his personal history and musical influences, as well as the current state of contemporary classical music in Australia. Plush describes a growing trend among younger Australian composers, who, inspired by the likes of Percy Grainger and Peter Sculthorpe, were seeking to create a truly Australian form of music. Music that is informed by their common history as European convicts and cast-offs, a connection with the indigenous population, and close proximity to Indonesia and other East Asian countries. The first composition heard in this program, “Bakery Hill Rising” is reflective of this tendency, as it commemorates one of the f...

102. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Wayne Peterson [0.411% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Wayne Peterson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 62 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer, pianist, and music professor, Wayne Peterson, whose background spans the jazz and European classical worlds. Peterson taught composition and piano at the San Francisco State University, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his composition “The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark”. In this program, recorded on June 21, 1978, Peterson presents three of his more traditional chamber works. Musical Selections: Diatribe, for violin and piano (1976) -- Encounters, for chamber ensemble (1976) -- Rhapsody, for cello and piano (1976) Performers: Daniel Kobialka, violin (Diatribe) Machiko Kobialka, piano (Diatribe) San Francisco Contemporary Players (Encounters) Jean-Louis LeRoux, conductor (Encounters) Laszlo Varga, cello (Rhapsody) Sylvia Jenkins, piano (Rhapsody) Genres: 20th Century Classical ; Chamber Music Subject:...

103. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Willem Pijper [1.033% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Willem Pijper Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 128 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Han Reiziger of the Dutch radio station, VPRO, guest host’s on KPFA’s Morning Concert, for a program dedicated to the music of one of the Netherland’s internationally best known 20th century composers, Willem Pijper. Although he briefly studied composition with Johan Wagenaar, Pijper was largely self-taught as a composer. Despite suffering from poor heath for much of his life, he managed to create a large body of work that is still widely performed today. In addition to his composing Pijper also worked as a music critic for the “Utrechtsch Dagblad” and helped establish a periodical called “De Muziek”, for which he also wrote a series of essays. This program, which focuses on Pijper’s chamber works, (although one his symphonies is also heard), is an excellent introduction to this Dutch composer. All the more so because of Reiziger’s soft spoken, but highly informative, commenta...

104. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Words and Music of Anthony Gnazzo [0.736% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Words and Music of Anthony Gnazzo Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 79 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Composer Anthony Gnazzo introduces a number of his tape compositions, two of which were finished especially for this program. In addition Charles Amirkhanian plays his tape composition “Audience”, which incorporates ambient sound recordings made in the garage and stairwell of the Oakland Museum and at Marineworld/Africa USA, mixed with the sound of his kitchen milk steamer. When not listening to each others works the two just generally have fun in the KPFA studios. This is another funny and fantastic program by the dynamic duo of text-sound composition. Musical Selections: Old Standard [based on “That’s My Desire”] / Anthony Gnazzo -- The Art of Canning Music (1976) / Anthony Gnazzo -- Transit (1978) / Anthony Gnazzo -- Asparagus: Everybody likes it / Anthony Gnazzo -- Wed in an Aeroplane (1919) / Alma Ives -- Pun ...

105. radiOM.org - Music Makes the World Go Round: A Tribute to Eddie Jefferson [0.300% Popularity: 0.00000]

Music Makes the World Go Round: A Tribute to Eddie Jefferson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 54 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA A retrospective tribute to jazz singer Eddie Jefferson (1918-1979). Jefferson was an innovator in the field of vocalese, in which words or a story line are written to replace the notes of famous instrumental solos from previous recordings by major jazz performers, such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and others. Jefferson’s lyrics were his method of paying homage to the composition’s soloist. His style influenced King Pleasure, as well as Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and more contemporary artists such as Al Jarreau, Leon Thomas, and the Manhattan Transfer. Although the “Main Man” was recognized primarily as a be-bop singer, his musical versatility is represented in recordings with James Moody and Richie Cole, and on sessions he led personally. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: [Music Makes the World Go Round] -- [Do You Know What I Heard?] -- I’m in the...

106. radiOM.org - Music by Josef M. Hauer, Stephen Foster, and other minstrel songs [3.762% Popularity: 0.00000]

Music by Josef M. Hauer, Stephen Foster, and other minstrel songs Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Music A program featuring a composition by Josef Matthias Hauer and a selection of minstrel songs by Stephen Collins Foster and others. While minstrel shows have rightfully come to be regarded with suspicion because of their promotion of racial stereotypes, their obvious co-opting of African American traditions for the entertainment of white audiences, and the enrichment of white composers and performers, the fact is they were very popular in the latter half of the 19th century and remain historically and musically relevant even today. One doesn’t have to support segregation or racism in order to enjoy these standards from the days of traveling medicine shows, as long as one is mindful of the shame of slavery and honors the resilient spirit of those so inflicted, and recognize how they used music as a salve for their souls. Musical Selections: Der Menschen Weg Op. 67 [text by Friedr...

107. radiOM.org - Music by the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra [4.823% Popularity: 0.00000]

Music by the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 22 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From March 22, 1968, Arthur C. Berdahl conducts the Fresno Philharmonic in a performance of Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to the opera “Der Freischütz.” Then from March 8, 1974, Berdahl conducts the orchestra in a performance of his own “Requiem for Grace,” and from the same concert Guy Taylor conducts a performance of Henry Cowell’s “Hymn and Fuguing Tune No.3.” Dr. Arthur C. Berdahl was a longtime professor of music at Fresno State College and the founder of symphonic music in Fresno, California. From 1932 to 1954, Berdahl conducted the Fresno State College Symphony Orchestra and taught music theory, composition, and other music courses to the most prominent musicians to come out of the Central Valley. One of his students, Leslie Bassett, won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for music. This program features a composition by Berdahl and recordings by the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra,...

108. radiOM.org - New Music America 1981: Concert 4, (June 10, 1981) [0.342% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1981: Concert 4, (June 10, 1981) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 96 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In 1981 the New Music America Festival came to San Francisco for a week full of concerts, sound installations, and multi-media performances. The fourth concert of the Festival, held on June 10, 1981, included works by Laurie Spiegel, Peter Gena, and George Lewis, as well as a live improvisation by LaDonna Smith and Davey Williams, and two musical performance art pieces by conceptual artist Jim Pomeroy. The concert began with two works by Laurie Spiegel, identified in the program as “The Unquestioned Answer” and “A History of Music in One Movement,” which had been previously performed on the computer but were now arranged for solo performers of the harp and piano, respectively. These were followed by an unidentified computer music piece, presented by the composer herself. Violinist and violist LaDonna Smith and guitarist Davey Williams then presented two distinctly avant...

109. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2007: Concert No. 2, The Immovable Do [1.975% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music Seance: 2007: Concert No. 2, The Immovable Do Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 54 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2007 New Music Seance Concerts featured five hours of hypnotic solo piano music performed by Sarah Cahill, or on the eerily disembodied Yamaha Disklavier, with additional spirit raising interludes by the Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmerman violin-piano duo. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco. The second concert entitled “The Immovable Do”, includes the title piece by Percy Grainger, as well as works by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Frank Martin, Evan Ziporyn, David Mahler, Carl Stone, and James Cleghorn. For a complete description of all the pieces heard please download the Program Guide which can be found at http://www.othermind...

110. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2008: Concert No. 2, Deep River Dreams [0.976% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music Seance: 2008: Concert No. 2, Deep River Dreams Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 69 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2008 New Music Seance Concerts featured a marathon of performances by pianist Sarah Cahill, and the dynamic violin/piano duo of Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmermann. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco on December 6, 2008. The second concert, entitled “Deep River Dreams”, featured music by such recognized 20th century composers as Samuel Barber, Olivier Messiaen, Morton Feldman, and Ingram Marshall, who’s recent composition “Movement (Deep in My Heart)” received its world premiere. Also included is an arrangement of the Anglo-African composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Deep River”, three movements from Gabriela Lena Frank’s “S...