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31. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2007: Concert No. 1, Nature Vivante [3.952% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music Seance: 2007: Concert No. 1, Nature Vivante 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 first concert entitled “Nature Vivante”, includes the title piece by Wladimir Vogel, and works by Dane Rudhyar, Phil Collins, Alan Hovhaness, Josef Hauer, George Antheil, Dan Becker, Peter Garland, Hans Otte, as well as the world premiere of "Rippling the Lamp", a stunning piece for violin and tape by Charles Amirkhanian. For a complete ...

32. 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...

33. radiOM.org - Performer's Choice Program No. 2, May 13. 1963 [3.763% Popularity: 0.00000]

Performer's Choice: Program No. 2, May 13. 1963 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The second in KPFA’s Performer's Choice concert series, recorded at the Hall of Flowers, in San Francisco, on May 13, 1963. The concert begins with the Performer’s Choice Ensemble presenting Edgar Varèse’s “Octandre,” conducted by Gerhard Samuel. Salvatore Martirano then conducts a precocious chamber ensemble from Berkeley High School in his “Octet”. Other compositions included Webern’s “Concerto, Opus 24”, and Mozart’s “Sonata in B Flat Major, K. 454” performed by David Abel and Nathan Schwartz. From 1963 to 1964 KPFA presented five such concerts featuring contemporary classical compositions, many by San Francisco based composers, including Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, and Gordon Mumma, as well as works by more internationally known composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Performer’s Choice concert series served as the springboard for the careers of a number of the...

34. radiOM.org - Sonata, for cello and piano by Tibor Harsányi [3.669% Popularity: 0.00000]

Sonata, for cello and piano by Tibor Harsányi Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 18 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA An early recording of Tibor Harsányi’s 1928 “Sonata” for cello and piano, performed by Hans Kindler on cello and the composer on piano. A French composer of Hungarian birth, Harsányi studied with both Bartók and Kodály, and toured extensively as a concert pianist before finally settling down in the Netherlands and then Paris in 1924. Although Harsányi early works were influenced by the same desire to explore native Hungarian folk songs like his mentor Bartók, he later developed his own harmonic language, embracing both dissonant chromatic as well as diatonic styles of writing. He was even known to incorporate influences from American jazz music. However this work is more traditional and austere than many of his compositions. Musical Selections: Sonata, for cello and piano (1928) (17:41) / Tibor Harsányi Performers: Hans Kindler, violoncello Tibor Harsányi, piano Genres: 20th ...

35. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society A Concert of Violin and Piano Music, March 19, 1973 [3.659% Popularity: 0.00000]

San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Concert of Violin and Piano Music, March 19, 1973 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 55 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From the Fireman’s Fund Theater in San Francisco on March 19, 1973, a San Francisco Chamber Music Society concert featuring violin and piano music performed by Daniel and Machiko Kobialka. Larry Jackson hosts this broadcast which includes works by Domenico Gallo, Fred Fox, and Johannes Brahms. The first work a “Sonata in E Major” was formally attributed to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, but is now thought to have been composed by Gallo. Note: This is only the first half of the concert and two pieces which are mentioned at the start of the event are not included in this program. Musical Selections: Sonata No. 12 in E Major, for violin and piano (5:18) / Domenico Gallo [formally attributed to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi] -- Variables I, for violin and piano (1972) (13:32) / Fred Fox -- Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78, for violin and pian...

36. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity The Melodious Keypunch: Keyboard works of Dello Joio, Barber, Stravinsky, & Shapero [3.607% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: The Melodious Keypunch: Keyboard works of Dello Joio, Barber, Stravinsky, & Shapero Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 58 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Host Charles Amirkhanian plays selected keyboard works of Norman Dello Joio, Samuel Barber, Igor Stravinsky, and Harold Shapero. Discussions about each piece follows as well as a story told by Stravinsky of the time when he stayed in Oakland, CA as a guest of the Darius Milhaud. Musical Selections: Sonata No. 3, for piano (1947) / Norman Dello Joio -- Four Excursions, Op. 20 (1944) / Samuel Barber -- Sonata, for two pianos (1945) / Igor Stravinsky -- Sonata, for piano four hands (1941) / Harold Shapero Performers: Frank Glazer, piano (Sonata No. 3) André Previn, piano (Four Excursions) Arthur Gold, piano (Sonata for 2 pianos) Robert Fizdale, piano (Sonata for 2 pianos) Harold Shapero, piano (Sonata for piano 4 hands) Leo Smit, piano (Sonata for piano 4 hands) Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-19...

37. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 10, Concert 1: 01 Works by Tigran Mansurian [3.604% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 10, Concert 1: 01 Works by Tigran Mansurian Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 34 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Tigran Mansurian was born in Beirut in 1939. In 1947 his family moved to Armenia, finally settling in the capital Yerevan in 1956. Mansurian studied at the Yerevan Music Academy and completed his Ph. D. at the Komitas State Conservatory where he later taught contemporary music analysis. In a short time he became one of Armenia's leading composers, establishing strong creative relationships with international performers and composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, André Volkonsky and Edison Denisov as well as Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek, and the Hilliard Ensemble. Mansurian was the director of the Komitas Conservatory in the 1990s. He has since retired as an administrator and teacher, and concentrates exclusively on composition. Mansurian's musical style is char...

38. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2008: Concert No. 3, Ruth Crawford and her Milieu (video) [3.391% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music Seance: 2008: Concert No. 3, Ruth Crawford and her Milieu (video) View Item Type: Video Duration: 87 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 her ...

39. radiOM.org - Avant-Garde Trombone Studio Concert [2.921% Popularity: 0.00000]

Avant-Garde Trombone Studio Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 105 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Stuart Dempster, principal trombonist of the Oakland Symphony, and faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory and San Francisco State College, presents a recital of six premieres, including three works commissioned by himself. This concert was held on June 24, 1966 at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. The concert is announced by Charles Boone, composer and officer of the Composers' Forum. During the intermission he interviews Mr. Dempster, who discusses his instrument and his commissions. Composer Robert Erickson is also interviewed, and he discusses his teaching as well as his music. This is a good recording of a fine concert of avant-garde music. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Changes: In Open Style, for trombone and magnetic tape (1965) / Larry Austin -- Solo, for sliding trombone (1957-58) / John Cage -- Ricercar à 5 (1966) / Robert Erickson Performers: Stuart Dempster,...

40. 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...