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41. radiOM.org - Holy, Holy, Holy: Antheil's Magic Lacunae [0.730% Popularity: 0.00000]

Holy, Holy, Holy: Antheil's Magic Lacunae Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 56 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) On April 10, 1927, George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique, scored for multiple pianos and percussion (including airplane propellers and electric doorbells) was given its American premiere at Carnegie Hall. An exciting discovery by Mrs. George Antheil of Los Angeles and KPFA's Charles Amirkhanian sheds extraordinary light on the genius of Antheil's early music. Gathering dust on the shelves of Mrs. Antheil's archives has been a set of three player piano rolls of the Ballet Mécanique in its original longer version (longer than the 1953 revised version which is best-known and runs only about 17 minutes in performance). This document, realized mechanically by the Pleyela Company to Antheil's carefully notated specifications, conforms to the original 1924 version of the work and contains evidence of a musicologically significant rediscovery. Ant...

42. radiOM.org - Homage to Darius Milhaud Concert, April 26, 1971 [1.497% Popularity: 0.00000]

Homage to Darius Milhaud Concert, April 26, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 92 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A concert of Darius Milhaud’s music, given on April 26, 1971, on the occasion of the composer’s retirement from the Mills College faculty after 31 years. Jean-Louis LeRoux conducts the Mills Performing Group with soloists Madeleine Milhaud, Naomi Sparrow and Betty Woo. The first selection heard, “La muse ménagère”, was played as people were still entering the music hall and therefore there is a bit of crowd noise, and the actual performer is uncertain. However this is but a small distraction from what is otherwise a wonderful tribute to one of the great 20th century composers. Part 1 of 4: Musical Selections: La Muse Ménagère, Op. 245 (”The Household Muse”) (1945) (19:00) -- Musique pour Graz, Op. 429 (1968"69) (15:30) Performers: Mills Performing Group (Graz) Jean-Louis LeRoux, conductor (Graz) Naomi Sparrow, piano (Muse) or Betty Woo, piano (Muse) Genres: 20th Century Cl...

43. radiOM.org - Igor Stravinsky - A Reluctant Farewell [1.348% Popularity: 0.00000]

Igor Stravinsky - A Reluctant Farewell Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 116 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) George Cleve presents a tribute to the Russian-American giant, Igor Stravinsky, broadcast on April 7, 1971, one day after his death. This reluctant farewell to one of classical music’s most innovative composers and conductors features a rendition of his entire "Firebird" ballet, played on piano by Stravinsky himself and captured on a player piano roll. Also on the program is the “Duo Concertant” for violin and piano, also with Stravinsky on piano, as well as the orchestral works, “Four Norwegian Moods”, and “Le Sacre du Printemps” or “Rite of Spring”. A fitting retrospective of the magnificent career of one of the pioneers of contemporary classical music. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Firebird Suite (1909-10) -- Duo Concertant, for violin and piano [part 1] (1933) Performers: Igor Stravinsky, piano (Firebird ; Concertant) Joseph Szigeti, vi...

44. radiOM.org - Improv:21 Carla Kihlstedt = Liberating Limits: An Informance with Kihlstedt and Derk Richardson [1.025% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: Carla Kihlstedt = Liberating Limits: An Informance with Kihlstedt and Derk Richardson View Item Type: Video Duration: 120 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: ROVA Additional Media Files (click to view) On September 14, 2005, Derk Richardson interviewed singer, violinist, and composer, Carla Kihlstedt, at The Thick House in San Francisco. Kihlstedt studied music at Oberlin where her interests expanded from the classical repertoire to more improvisational and avant-garde music. In 1997 she co-founded the group Tin Hat Trio with Rob Burger and Mark Orton, and has also played with 2 Foot Yard and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. In this interview she speaks about her influences and her improvising concepts in a far-reaching discussion which also includes excerpts of rare recordings and audience questions. Musical Selections: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61 [excerpt of cadenza by Carla Kihlstedt] (1806) / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Far and Wee (2003) / Carla Kihlstedt -- Patc...

45. radiOM.org - Improv:21 Composer/Improviser Fred Frith [0.154% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: Composer/Improviser Fred Frith View Item Type: Video Duration: 111 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: ROVA Larry Ochs of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet introduces an insightful interview of composer/improviser Fred Frith by Derk Richardson, conducted at the Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco on January 30, 2005. Frith discusses the role of improvisation in his music and the recording techniques he has used in the music studio to capture and manipulate those improvisations. He also describes his use of graphic scores, his work improvising film soundtracks, and the various tricks he has developed to get more classically trained musicians learn how to more freely improvise. In the second half of the programs he takes questions from the audience. Musical Selections: Deluge (1974) / Henry Cow -- [unidentified piece from the CD “Dense Band”] (1985) / David Moss -- Prisoners’ Dilemma [excerpt] (2002) / Maybe Monday -- Digital Wildlife [excerpt] (2002) / Maybe Monday -- [unidentified excer...

46. radiOM.org - Improv:21 Ellen Fullman: Sympathetic Resonances [0.283% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: Ellen Fullman: Sympathetic Resonances View Item Type: Video Duration: 96 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: ROVA Derk Richardson interviews composer and inventor of the Long String Instrument (LSI), Ellen Fullman, at the Red Poppy Art House, in San Francisco, on February 18, 2009, as part of the ROVA:Arts Improv 21 series of informances. Fullman describes her evolution from a visual artist to musical instrument builder, improviser, composer, and collaborator with various other avant-garde ensembles. Fullman states that her journey of musical discovery began with her impatience at learning traditional instruments, saying that as soon as she got good at them she became bored with their sound. This led her to designing her own instruments, one of the first of which was a skirt made from sheet metal with amplified guitar strings attached to the front and back of her shoes, and which produced sound as she walked. Fullman then went on to experiment with various metal contraptions, eventu...

47. radiOM.org - Improv:21 Intervals, Overtones, & Extended Techniques: An Informance with Mark Dresser (2008) [0.112% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: Intervals, Overtones, & Extended Techniques: An Informance with Mark Dresser (2008) View Item Type: Video Duration: 96 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: ROVA A performance and lecture by composer and bassist Mark Dresser, recorded on April 15, 2008, at the Marsh, in San Francisco, as part of the Improv:21 series sponsored by ROVA Arts. After a brief introduction by Derk Richardson, Dresser takes the stage and performs a lengthy improvisation, before launching into what is no less than a master class on extended playing techniques, intervals, harmonics, and the creative uses of amplification. Dresser was born in Los Angeles, studied music at U. C. San Diego, and has spent a considerable amount of time playing with a variety of world class musicians in New York City and elsewhere. He begins by describing how he was first drawn to music through the free and expressive playing of Jimi Hendrix and Charlie Mingus, among others. Further association and study with such teachers as ...

48. radiOM.org - Improv:21 Roscoe Mitchell - Improvising with Mr. Mitchell [1.493% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: Roscoe Mitchell - Improvising with Mr. Mitchell View Item Type: Video Duration: 96 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: ROVA Recorded on February 20, 2008, at the Marsh, in San Francisco, Derk Richardson introduces saxophonist, composer, and improviser extraordinaire, Roscoe Mitchell. The very embodiment of the deliberate and intelligent artist, Mitchell proceeds to hold court before an attentive and appreciative audience, presenting some of his musical collaborations, and sharing his ideas about improvising while also answering a variety of interesting questions. One of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Mitchell has always been at the forefront of the experimental free-jazz movement, and is a firm believer that music is 50% sound and 50% silence. Mr. Mitchell describes his attempts to teach students the art of improvisation and how to address many of the challenges that even he still faces when impr...

49. radiOM.org - Improv:21 The Chair the Fact: An Informance with Ben Goldberg [0.261% Popularity: 0.00000]

Improv:21: The Chair the Fact: An Informance with Ben Goldberg View Item Type: Video Duration: 93 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: ROVA Derk Richardson interviews Berkeley based composer and clarinetist, Ben Goldberg, on October 30, 2006 at the San Francisco Performance Library, as part of the Improv:21 series sponsored by ROVA Arts. Originally from Denver Colorado, Goldberg moved to California to study at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he received his undergraduate degree before also obtaining a Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College. Goldberg was a student of Boston Symphony clarinetist and teacher extraordinaire, Rosario Mazzeo, and has also studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. He has performed with such groups as the New Klezmer Trio, Tin Hat (formally Tin Hat Trio), Junk Genius, and his own Ben Goldberg Quintet, among others. In this program he talks about how he was influenced by the music of Steve Lacy and Thelonious Monk, as well as his general approach ...

50. radiOM.org - Information Transmission, Modulation and Noise Steve Reich and Jon Gibson [1.943% Popularity: 0.00000]

Information Transmission, Modulation and Noise: Steve Reich and Jon Gibson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 111 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Steve Reich and Jon Gibson stopped by the KPFA studio after a rehearsal for a performance scheduled for the next day at the U. C. Berkeley’s Art Museum. The discussion centers around Reich’s very unusual music and you will hear an East Coast performance of his “Four Organs” as well as an exciting recording of Ghanian drumming which Reich recorded when in that country. They also introduce the music of Philip Glass, playing a tape of his “Music in Similar Motion”. The program ends with a discussion about the influence of world music and environmental soundscapes on contemporary composers. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Violin Phase [excerpt] (1967) / Steve Reich -- Four Organs (1970) / Steve Reich -- Gahu / Ghana Dance Ensemble Performers: Jon Gibson, maracas (Four Organs) Ghana Dance Ensemble (Gahu) Steve Reich, rattle (Gahu) Genre...