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31. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents Alan Hovhaness Centennial Celebration (March 13, 2011) [3.967% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Presents: Alan Hovhaness Centennial Celebration (March 13, 2011) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 108 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Other Minds celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), a prolific but under-appreciated composer and pioneer of "multi-cultural" music, on March 13, 2011, at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, CA. Over the course of his career, Hovhaness studied his own Armenian ancestry, and also the musical cultures of India, Japan, and South Korea, traveling extensively to research the traditional music of those countries. Their influence is made clear in many of his 500+ works which include 67 symphonies, three ballets, and an enormous catalog of instrumental music including two for Indonesian gamelan orchestra. This concert featured a wide selection of piano music by Hovhaness, including two world premiers, as well as a rarely heard composition by the Armenian compose...

32. radiOM.org - A Life in Music: Elliott Carter [3.959% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Life in Music: Elliott Carter Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 116 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA This program provides an overview of Elliott Carter's compositions from 1942 to 1978. It includes excerpts from several of his works, including the “Symphony No. 1” (1942), “Piano Sonata” (1945-6), “Cello Sonata” (1948), and “Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano” (1961). Importantly, the program also includes recordings of complete performances of the “Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord” (1952) with an informative analysis by David Schiff (Carter's biographer). In addition, the “String Quartet No. 2” (1959), “Symphony of Three Orchestras”, and “Syringa for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone and Chamber Orchestra” are presented. Elliott Carter and David Schiff are interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian. This program was produced, written, edited and hosted by Steve Robinson. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Symphony No. 1 [excerpt] (1942) -- Piano Sonata [excerpt] (1945-6) -- Sonata...

33. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2007: Concert No. 3, Sleepwalker’s Shuffle [3.751% 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...

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 - 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...

36. radiOM.org - Inverness Music Festival 1974: A Centennial Tribute to Charles Ives [3.601% 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...

37. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2008: Concert No. 3, Ruth Crawford and her Milieu [3.584% 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 ...

38. radiOM.org - Morning Concert 50th Anniversary of the Concert Societe Musicale Independante [3.431% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: 50th Anniversary of the Concert Societe Musicale Independante Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 125 min Event Type: Music and Interview Program Origin: KPFA On May 5, 1926 six young American composers who had been working in Paris presented their chamber music to an audience of musicians, intelligentsia, and socialites in the famed Salle Pleyel (or perhaps the nearby Salle Chopin). The concert, arranged by Nadia Boulanger and sponsored by the Societe Musicale Independente, a group which included the most celebrated European composers of the time, gave the French one of their first chances to hear what Americans were capable of musically. The program consisted of the Virgil Thomson's "Sonata da chiesa"; Herbert Elwell's "Nine Piano Pieces"; Aaron Copland's "As It Fell Upon a Day" and two jazz violin pieces, "Nocturne" and "Ukelele Serenade"; Walter Piston's "Piano Sonata"; Theodore Chanler's "Sonata for Violin and Piano"; and George Antheil's "First String Quartet". That program is r...

39. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, Concert Two [3.241% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Presents: Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, Concert Two Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 157 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds On November 13, 2009, at the Presidio Chapel in San Francisco, CA, Other Minds presented the second of two concerts dedicated to the music of Henry Cowell. Born in Menlo Park in 1897, Cowell began his musical career as a concert pianist, and is perhaps best known for pioneering such “ultramodern” performance techniques as “tone clusters,” in which the arms are used to play a number of notes simultaneously, and the direct manipulation of the strings of the piano, in a manner that presaged John Cage’s works for prepared piano. Yet Cowell’s greatest contribution to avant-garde music came with his publication of the journal “New Music Quarterly” and its associated recordings. First issued in 1927, and edited by Cowell until 1936 this journal was where many works, by what are now recognized as the greatest 20th century Ameri...

40. radiOM.org - The Chamber Music of Richard Maxfield [3.140% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Chamber Music of Richard Maxfield Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 24 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A selection of early, mostly chamber music works by the American composer, Richard Maxfield. Although perhaps known best for his pioneering work in the realm of electronic music, Maxfield was first an award winning composer of 20th century classical music, who studied with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt. The first work heard in this program is the finale of his “Piano Sonata No. 2” which was dedicated to Roger Sessions. Also included are an excerpt of his 1951 “Symphony” for string orchestra, a string quartet, and “Composition” for violin and piano, as well as “Structures” which is scored for ten wind instruments. Maxfield, who studied at U. C. Berkeley, performed concerts widely, and taught at the New School in New York City and then at the San Francisco State University in the late 1960s, tragically committed suicide in 1969 by throwing himself out a Los Angeles hotel window. Mu...