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31. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society Lucy Stoltzman & Friends in Concert on December 21, 1981 [2.225% Popularity: 0.00000]

San Francisco Chamber Music Society: Lucy Stoltzman & Friends in Concert on December 21, 1981 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 90 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The third concert of the 1981-82 season of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society featured violinist Lucy Stoltzman and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman performing a program of mostly 20th century chamber works, with added accompaniment by Robin Sutherland on piano, and Michael Grebanier on cello. The program begins with Johannes Brahms’ “Sonatensatz.” the fourth and only extant movement from a sonata jointly composed by Brahms, Albert Dietrich, and Robert Schumann. This is followed by Roger Nixon’s “Conversations” a work in seven short movements which was commissioned by Lillian D. Hohfeld and Jane and Clement Galante in memory of Isabell Arndt Hesselberg, who’s personality is purportedly reflected in the music. Other works include two trios for violin, clarinet, and piano, by Ingolf Dahl and Béla Bartók as well as Maurice Ravel’...

32. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Leo Ornstein: An 88th Birthday Tribute [1.365% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Leo Ornstein: An 88th Birthday Tribute Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 133 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian celebrates the 88th birthday of American composer Leo Ornstein with a special program devoted to his music. Born in Kremenchug Russia, on December 11, 1892, (or Dec. 2, 1893) he moved to the United States in 1907. His antics as a pianist, including his introducing to concert audiences around 1910 a brand of composing previously unknown, brought him a reputation as a fiery radical of the keyboard. His experiments in percussive sonorities and dissonance presaged those of Bartok, Cowell, and Antheil. But by 1927 he had retired due to nervous exhaustion brought on by an overwhelming concert schedule. He later founded a music school in Philadelphia bearing his own name and taught such future notables as Berkeley, California composer Andrew Imbrie. At the time of this program he continued to compose...

33. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2008: Concert No. 3, Ruth Crawford and her Milieu [2.817% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music Seance: 2008: Concert No. 3, Ruth Crawford and her Milieu Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 77 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 third concert, entitled “Ruth Crawford and Her Milieu” featured works by Alexander Scriabin and Dane Rudhyar, two composers who’s interest in the intersection between mysticism and music found resonance in Crawford’s own compositions. Also included are works by Henry Cowell, a close friend of Crawford, and someone who was instrumental in getting Crawford’s music before the public by publishing ...

34. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Willem Pijper [3.880% 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...

35. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity American Music on 78s [2.839% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: American Music on 78s Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 55 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In the first show of what was destined to become the longest running American radio program devoted to new and avant-garde music, host Charles Amirkhanian, introduces three out-of-print works by American composers. There is an early sonata by Leonard Bernstein, a Concerto for harp and wind ensemble by Carlos Salzedo, and finally a string quartet by Walter Piston. All the recordings date to the 1930s and 40s, and were originally released on 78s. Musical Selections: Sonata for Clarinet & Piano (1942) / Leonard Bernstein -- Concerto for Harp and Seven Winds (1926) / Carlos Salzedo -- String Quartet No. 1 (1933) / Walter Piston Performers: David Oppenheim, clarinet (Sonata) Leonard Bernstein, piano (Sonata) Lucile Lawrence, harp (Concerto) Barrere Ensemble of Wind Instruments (Concerto) Dorian String Quartet (Quartet) Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: 20th century classical ; Sonata...

36. radiOM.org - The Music of Lou Harrison (August 1968) [0.418% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Music of Lou Harrison (August 1968) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 218 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Recorded in August of 1968 this is a wonderful four part program in which American composer Lou Harrison presents a selection of his varied works, in roughly chronological order. The program begins with Harrison providing a brief biographical sketch of his life in which he describes being born in Oregon and how he then moved with his family to Northern California, and his subsequent self-identification as a San Francisco Bay Area composer. The rest of the first half of the program is then dedicated to presenting many of his earlier, Mission Period compositions, (a term meant to reflect his adopted home in California), including some of his groundbreaking percussion ensemble pieces such as his “Suite for Percussion” and “Labyrinth No. 3.” In the third hour of this program the emphasis switches to his longer works written for larg...

37. 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...

38. radiOM.org - The Life and Music of Elie Siegmeister [0.951% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Life and Music of Elie Siegmeister Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 135 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In a recording made on March 24, 1972 and first broadcast on July 31st of that year, Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Elie Siegmeister and his wife Hannah, while also playing a wide assortment of Siegmeister’s music. Known for his interest in American music and the plight of the working class, Siegmeister has written art songs, operas, musicals, and film scores, as well as a wide variety of orchestral and chamber works. In this delightful interview Siegmeister disputes Amirkhanian’s attempt to divide his career into an early Americana phase and a later period dedicated to more experimental and abstract music, saying that while certain works may emphasize one aspect more than the other both themes are generally present in all his music. An active composer since at least the 1930s Siegmeister knew many of the great American composers of his time and provides ente...

39. 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...

40. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society A Concert from October 25, 1976 [1.435% Popularity: 0.00000]

San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Concert from October 25, 1976 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 92 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The 1976 season of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society, began with this concert of music for cello and piano. Cellist Gabor Rejto and pianist Adolph Baller present a program that includes Sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, Bohuslav Martinů, Claude Debussy, and Johannes Brahms. Recorded at the Fireman’s Fund Auditorium in San Francisco on on October 25, 1976 by program host Steve Wolfe, this fine chamber music concert concludes with an encore of Beethoven’s “Seven Variations on a Theme from Mozart’s Magic Flute.” Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1, for cello and piano (1796) (19:30) / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Sonata No. 2, for cello and piano (1941) (17:11) / Bohuslav Martin Performers: Gabor Rejto, cello Adolph Baller, piano Genres: Classical Music ; Chamber Music Subject: 18th century classical ; 20th century classical ;...