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21. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Najma Akhtar, September 5, 1991 [5.097% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Najma Akhtar, September 5, 1991 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 121 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian talks with the famed British-born, singer of South Asian ancestry, Najma Akhtar. Najma discusses the form of the ghazal, or love song, which is very popular in India and Pakistan, and which has a long and distinguished history. Her recordings, available in this country on the Shanachie label (Qareeb, Atish, Pukar) have taken listeners by storm. In this program we hear multiple examples of her ghazals as well as more traditional forms of Persian sung poetry. Najma holds a degree in chemical engineering but has decided to continue her music career. A brief hearing of her music explains why. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Neend Koyi -- Har Ek Ranj Mein -- Karoon Na Yad Magar -- Ghoom Charakhana -- Jane Kis Tarha -- Dil Laga Ya Tha Performers: Najma Akhtar, vocals Ray Carless, saxophone Genres: World Music ; Popular Music ...

22. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Jin Hi Kim, 1990 [5.081% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Jin Hi Kim, 1990 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 124 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer and improviser Jin Hi Kim (Jin Hi= Dragon Princess; Kim=Gold) who was born in Korea and has lived in San Francisco since 1980. Ms. Kim is the first performer on the ancient komungo to play experimental and improvised music. This silk stringed wooden zither, with 6 strings, 3 moveable bridges and 16 frets is plucked in a variety ways which produce startling and vigorous sounds. She trained at the Seoul Conservatory in both Western classical composition and traditional Korean performance, and later completed graduate work at Mills College in Oakland. Included on this program are recordings from her live performances. Also introduced is her new electric komungo, which increases her dynamic range and provides new electronic possibilities. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [live performance, 5/20/1989, at the Western Front, Vancouver] -- O...

23. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 10, Concert 2: 03 Works for accordion performed by Stefan Hussong [5.078% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 10, Concert 2: 03 Works for accordion performed by Stefan Hussong Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 46 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Stefan Hussong, one of Europe's premiere accordionist, was born in Koellerbach an der Saar, Germany. He received scholarships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Art Foundation of Baden-Wuerttemberg State. His repertoire encompasses all stylist periods, with an emphasis on new music. In 1987 he received the first prize at the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition for Contemporary Music. Hussong was awarded the Echo Classic Prize of the German Phonoacademy in the category Best Performer of the Year 1999. That same year his solo CD published by DENON with works by John Cage won the Best Record of the Year Award. Hussong has premiered more than 80 works dedicated to him and he has recorded more than 25 CDs, some of which have...

24. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 10, Concert 2: 01 “Ashtayama"Song of Hours” by Amelia Cuni [5.075% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 10, Concert 2: 01 “Ashtayama"Song of Hours” by Amelia Cuni Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Amelia Cuni was born in Milan, and lived in India for more than 10 years studying Dhrupad singing from renowned masters like Ustad Fahimuddin Dagar, Dilip Chandra Vedi and others. She has been based in Berlin since 1992, where she and sound designer Werner Durand were awarded artist-in-residence grants by the Podewil Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst (1999). Cuni performs internationally, presenting solo concerts in Germany, London, Bombay and New Delhi, and participates in festivals such as the Festival of Vision 2000 in Berlin and others in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, India, China, Brazil and Holland. Cuni's style has both a traditional and experimental orientation; she draws elements from ancient Indian traditional music, yet reaches beyond the bounda...

25. radiOM.org - Concert for the 57th Esperanto Conference [5.074% Popularity: 0.00000]

Concert for the 57th Esperanto Conference Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 77 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A recording of a concert given in honor of the members of the 57th Esperanto Conference. The concert begins with the “Pampeana No. 1,” by Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera. This is followed by four pieces of Chinese classical music performed by the Chinese Classical Music Ensemble of Lou Harrison, William Colvig and Richard Dee. They are "The Triple Refrain at Lang Kwan Pass," a 9th century piece attributed to Wang Way, a Buddhist chant from a 13th century opera, a 20th century piece known by its Esperanto title "Monologo de la Resanigulo" by Lju Tjen Hua, and a popular piece " Five Glories to the Buddha.” These are followed by the world premiere of three pieces written for the gamelan, "Cakono por Violono kun Gamelano " by Richard Dee and Lou Harrison, "La Kvar Patronoj de la Palestro" by Richard Dee, and "La Koro Sutro" by Lou Harrison. This concert was held in Knuth Hall ...

26. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4, Concert 2: 01 “Voices Unveiled” by Hafez Modirzadeh [5.070% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4, Concert 2: 01 “Voices Unveiled” by Hafez Modirzadeh Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 38 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Saxophonist and composer Hafez Modirzadeh invented the "chromodial" method which allows for a non-linear improvisational practice which is able to adapt and incorporate multiple systems of music, permitting a cross-cultural conversation between instruments, performers, and musical idioms. “Voices Unveiled” features five songs that take their texts and musical influences from Mexico, India, Iran, Korea, and America. Musical Selections: Voices Unveiled: {Satira Filosophica [text by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz] / Son Huasteco & traditional melodies [arr. by Hafez Modirzadeh & Claudia Gomez] -- Raga Mishra Gara / Rita Sahai [arr. by Hafez Modirzadeh] -- Tas-e Falak [text by Mahsatī] / Hafez Modirzadeh -- Mindullae [text by Lee Hae-In] / Hafez Modirzadeh -- Phenomenal Woman [text by Maya Angelou]} (1997) (37:39) / Hafez Modirzadeh [World pre...

27. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Armenian Martyr's Day, 1992 [5.068% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Armenian Martyr's Day, 1992 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 78 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Beginning with the touching folk tune “Garun A”, transcribed by Komitas for chorus and piano, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a program of Armenian music rich in variety and textures. Recorded live at KPFA Radio, this concert was timed to coincide with Armenian Martyr's Day. In Turkey on April 24, 1915, the leaders of the Ottoman Empire set in motion a genocidal massacre of Armenians in an effort to rid the country of this Christian minority that had lived in peace there for many centuries. Composer Maia Aprahamian of Tiburon, California, didn't know her father was Armenian until she was 17. Her story is a touching one told in her own words. She studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and we hear her serenely beautiful work "Batter My Heart" (after the John Donne poem), performed at Grace Cathedral by Barry Tuckwell (French horn) and John Fenstermaker (organ) r...

28. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 10, Concert 1: 03 “The Hear and Now” by Jon Raskin [5.062% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 10, Concert 1: 03 “The Hear and Now” by Jon Raskin Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 56 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Jon Raskin, born in 1954 in Heppner, Oregon, is a composer and performer with the ROVA Saxophone Quartet on baritone and alto saxophones. His musical training includes saxophone studies with Eddie Flenner, James Rotter and John Handy, and composition studies with Dr. Barney Childs and Allaudin Mathieu. Before ROVA, Raskin served as music director of the Tumbleweed Dance Company (1974"77) in San Francisco. He was a founding member of the Blue Dolphin and the Farm, two alternative art spaces in San Francisco. The ROVA Saxophone Quartet was formed in 1978 and incorporated in 1985. This allowed them to present artists from around the world, including the Ganelin Trio from the Soviet Union, the first Soviet jazz group to tour the US. Since then, ROVA has worked with John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley,...

29. radiOM.org - A Celebration of Non-Commercial Radio [5.046% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Celebration of Non-Commercial Radio Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 182 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) This live broadcast from the then, brand new, KPFA building at 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Berkeley, California, aired nationally on NPR. It features the world premiere of Lou Harrison’s “Homage to Pacifica” (commissioned by the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation), a six movement composition for narrator, soloists, mixed chorus, and Javanese gamelan ensemble. Also heard is a rare recording made in 1949, just after KPFA went on the air, in which Henry Cowell performed a number of his works on the KPFA grand piano. This program continues with Berkeley composer Gary Noland’s spectacular ragtime composition, “Grand Rag Brillante”, which is virtually impossible to be played by humans. Here it is heard played on KPFA’s Yamaha Disklavier, a type of modern player piano. The program concludes with the great, North Indian, virtuosi...

30. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 (video) [4.990% 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...