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21. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society A Recital by Margaret Fabrizio on a Clementi Piano (April 27, 1970) [4.873% Popularity: 0.00000]

San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Recital by Margaret Fabrizio on a Clementi Piano (April 27, 1970) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 119 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The sound of another era can be heard as Margaret Fabrizio performs on a piano built by Muzio Clementi, and used by Mozart and Beethoven. The instrument was restored by Bjarne Dahl after being brought to the San Francisco Bay Area as a furniture antique and is now part of the Frank V. de Bellis Collection. Fabrizio performs a selection of period specific music by C. P. E. Bach, Ludwig Beethoven and Wolfgang Mozart, as well as one work attributed to the builder himself, Muzio Clementi. During the intermission of this live recording we hear a pre-recorded interview with Bjarne Dahl, in which he relates the history of the instrument as well as describing the restoration process in detail. Ms. Fabrizio also relates the challenges she faced playing on such an historical instrument and how she approached it in much the may...

22. radiOM.org - Benjamin Lees at KPFA [3.998% Popularity: 0.00000]

Benjamin Lees at KPFA Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 66 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From 1971, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Benjamin Lees a New York based composer whose “Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra” has been recorded for RCA, and whose larger works have found their places in the repertories of major orchestras the country over. Lees discusses his childhood in San Francisco, and the fact that as of this recording, none of his works had been performed in the Bay Area. Included in the program are the first movement of his “Piano Sonata No. 4” performed by Gary Graffman, and his “Symphony No. 3” performed by Sixten Ehrling and the Detroit Symphony. Mr. Lees, one of American maverick composer George Antheil’s star students, died in May of 2010 at the age of 86. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Piano Sonata No. 4 [1st movement] (1963) -- Symphony No. 3 (1969) Performers: Gary Graffman, piano (Sonata No. 4) Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Symphony No. 3) Si...

23. radiOM.org - Alan Hovhaness Concert at St. John's Church in Berkeley [2.509% Popularity: 0.00000]

Alan Hovhaness Concert at St. John's Church in Berkeley Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 129 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) An Alan Hovhaness concert recorded February 25, 1978 at St. John's Church in Berkeley, California. This concert was presented by 1750 Arch Street. The program includes a number of his works performed publicly for the first time and features Hovhaness, on piano, his wife Hinako Fujihara, as the soprano, and their daughter Jean Nandi on harpsichord. After the concert Hovhaness listens to the opening of “Mysterious Mountain”, and speaks about his “Sonata for Harpsichord” and “Celestial Canticle”. This is followed by a 26 minute long interview between Steve Wolfe and Hovhaness conducted on the day after the concert (2/26/1978). During the interview Hovhaness speaks about his “Sonata for Soprano and Piano” and his opera “Pericles”. Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: Pieces de Clavecin, Ordre XIII (1722) / François Couperin -- Sonata ...

24. radiOM.org - The Late Piano Sonatas of George Antheil [5.400% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Late Piano Sonatas of George Antheil Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 62 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In December 1970, Charles Amirkhanian visited Böske Antheil (widow of the late composer, George Antheil) at her home in Los Angeles. During a search of the family archives two acetate, private recordings of the Third (1947) and Fifth Piano Sonatas (1950) were discovered. The performances were by the pianist Frederick Marvin. In this program you can hear those two rare recordings as well an early recording of the Antheil’s Fourth Sonata (1948) also played by Frederick Marvin. The program begins with a performance of the Second Sonata, often referred to as the “Airplane Sonata” composed in 1922. This contrasting work, written in the mechanistic style that characterized Antheil’s early compositions, is played by Vladimir Pleshakov. Musical Selections: Airplane Sonata (Sonata No. 2) (1921) -- Sonata No. 4 (1948) -- Sonata No. 3 (1947) -- Sonata No. 5 (1950) -- La femme 1...

25. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity George Antheil & Four Lives in Paris [0.508% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: George Antheil & Four Lives in Paris Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian introduces three recordings of compositions by George Antheil, the original bad boy of music, who lived from 1900 to 1959. Amirkhanian also discusses “Four Lives in Paris,” Hugh Ford’s book documenting the lives of Antheil, Kay Boyle, Harold Stearns, and Margaret Anderson as Americans living in France during the heady days of the early 20th century. Published by North Point Press of Berkeley, California, the volume brings to light information about four, representative, yet lesser known lights, of the American expatriate scene in Paris in the 1920s. Amirkhanian reads a passage from the book that describes the sort of conditions Antheil enjoyed living above Sylvia Beech’s famous bookstore, and meeting such luminaries as Erik Satie and Ezra Pound. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Sonata, for tr...

26. 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 ...

27. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2007: Concert No. 3, Sleepwalker’s Shuffle [2.813% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music Seance: 2007: Concert No. 3, Sleepwalker’s Shuffle Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 74 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 third concert entitled “Sleepwalker’s Shuffle”, includes the title piece by William Albright, as well as works by Robert Helps, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Anton von Webern, Howard Skempton, Jonathan Russell, Frederic Rzewski, Conlon Nancarrow, Annea Lockwood, Morton Feldman, Ronald Bruce Smith, and George Antheil. For a complete descr...

28. radiOM.org - Pacifica Chamber Players A Concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players, (August 15, 1971) [2.841% Popularity: 0.00000]

Pacifica Chamber Players: A Concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players, (August 15, 1971) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 53 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From a public concert given on August 15, 1971 at the Berkeley Piano Club, the Pacifica Chamber Players perform works by Ingolf Dahl, Leon Kirchner, Igor Stravinsky, and Arthur Honnegger. For this concert the Pacific Chamber Players were, Tom Rose on clarinet, Ronald Erickson on violin, Michael Deatherage on cello, and Rick Nobis on piano. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Concerto a Tre, for clarinet, violin, and cello (1946) (17:40) / Ingolf Dahl -- Trio, for violin, cello, and piano (1954) (14:00) / Leon Kirchner Performers: Pacifica Chamber Players: Tom Rose, clarinet Ronald Erickson, violin Michael Deatherage, cello Ricklen Nobis, piano Genres: 20th Century Classical ; Chamber Music Subject: 20th century classical ; Chamber music ; Trios (Clarinet, violin, violoncello) ; Piano trios People: Dahl, Ingolf, 1912-1970 ; Kirchner, Leon ...

29. radiOM.org - Inverness Music Festival 1974: A Centennial Tribute to Charles Ives [2.829% Popularity: 0.00000]

Inverness Music Festival: 1974: A Centennial Tribute to Charles Ives Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 84 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A program of music by Charles Ives, performed at the San Domenico School in San Anselmo, California as part of the 1974 Inverness Music Festival. The program begins with a brief biographical sketch of this important American composer, offered by the concert host and narrator, James Frush. The concert proper then gets under way with Ives’ “Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano”. This is then followed by a selection of songs, either written or arranged by Charles Ives. Some of these songs are settings for a variety of 19th and 20th century poets, ranging from the German Romanticism of Heinrich Heine to American cowboy poems of D J. O’Malley, while others use Ives’ own words. Additional works heard include the “Piano Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830’s and 1840’s” and the “Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano”. Held a hundred years after t...

30. radiOM.org - Three Works by Robert Ashley [3.995% Popularity: 0.00000]

Three Works by Robert Ashley Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 30 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Two electronic music works and one rather avant-garde piano sonata by Robert Ashley. The first piece of electronic music “Heat” was conceived as a sort of soundtrack for one of Milton Cohen’s light sculpture/theater works entitled “Manifestations: Light and Sound.” This is followed by a somewhat sparse piano sonata which has as it’s subtitle, “Christopher Columbus crosses to the New World in the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria using only dead reckoning and a crude astrolabe.” One can easily envisage the 15th century explorer wandering aimlessly around the Atlantic Ocean, searching for India, as the piano plays in the background. The program concludes with another typical early electronic composition. Robert Ashley was born in 1930 and in addition to being a frequent collaborator in Cohen’s intermedia “Space Theater” during the late 1950s and early 1960s he was also one of the founders of ...