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51. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society A Concert by the Telluride Chamber Players, February 22, 1982 [2.241% Popularity: 0.00000]

San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Concert by the Telluride Chamber Players, February 22, 1982 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 127 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The fifth concert of the 1981-82 season of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society featured the Telluride Chamber Players performing works by Ernest Bloch, David Sheinfeld, Efrem Zimbalist, Ottorino Respighi, and Gabriel Fauré. Sheinfeld, who was at the concert, provides an introduction for the premiere of his “Threnody” which is scored for solo violin, as well as sharing some of his memories about living in Rome in the early 20th century, where he stuudied with Respighi. Roy Malan who is the violinist of the Telluride Chamber Players also offers some brief remarks on a couple of the featured compositions. This concert was recorded live, on February 22, 1982 at the Fireman’s Fund Forum in San Francisco, by Steve Wolfe. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Piano Quintet No. 1 (1921-23) (35:07) / Ernest Bloch -- Threnody, for vi...

52. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity A Concert of American Music for Violin and Piano [2.230% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: A Concert of American Music for Violin and Piano Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 109 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From 1982, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a concert of violin and piano music by American composers, some obscure and some well known. The music is performed live in the KPFA studio, by the San Francisco duo, violinist Greg Mazmanian and pianist Robert Hagopian. The works range from an early romantic sonata by John Alden Carpenter, to more modern sounding sonatas by Henry Cowell, and Aaron Copland. Also included are two works by Alan Hovhaness, the haunting opus one, “Oror (’Lullaby’)” and the perhaps better known “Khirgiz Suite”. The concert concludes with “Hexapoda” by Robert Russell Bennett. Charles provides background information about each of the pieces as well as a brief introduction of the performers. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Sonata, for violin and piano (1911) (23:43) / John Alden Carpenter -- Sonata, for violin and piano (1945) (18:13) / H...

53. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 10, Concert 1: 01 Works by Tigran Mansurian [2.226% 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...

54. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey [2.217% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 107 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Born Dec. 29, 1912 in Melbourne, Australia, Peggy Glanville-Hicks was, until recently, virtually unknown in her native country. In 1931 she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied composition, piano and conducting with the cream of British musical life: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arthur Benjamin, Constant Lambert, and Malcolm Sargent. A traveling scholarship sent her to Vienna in 1936 to study with Egon Wellesz and to Paris for sessions with Nadia Boulanger. From 1942 to 1959, she lived in the United States, becoming active as a resourceful and inventive concert organizer, and as a brilliant music critic for the “New York Herald Tribune”, where her colleagues were Virgil Thomson, Lou Harrison and Paul Bowles. After leaving New York, she settled in Greece before returning to Australia in the mid-seventies. Her own music...

55. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2007: Concert No. 1, Nature Vivante [2.217% 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 ...

56. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society Lucy Stoltzman & Friends in Concert on December 21, 1981 [2.010% 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’...

57. radiOM.org - Han Reiziger reception at 1750 Arch St. [1.882% Popularity: 0.00000]

Han Reiziger reception at 1750 Arch St. Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 46 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: C Amirkhanian Additional Media Files (click to view) A live recording of a musical reception held at 1750 Arch St. to welcome Dutch radio producer Han Reiziger (1934-2006) to KPFA. Reiziger was the long standing musical director at VPRO, a Dutch radio station that was known worldwide for its adventurous and avant-garde musical programming. In an exchange program with the Pacifica Radio network that saw KPFA’s Charles Amirkhanian spend several months in Holland, Reiziger came to Berkeley California for a four month stint in 1974-75, where he produced numerous programs on Dutch musical life. Musical Selections: Fiddle Music (1923-24) / Ezra Pound -- Soundpiece No. 3 (1936) / John J. Becker -- Short Story (ca. 1922) / George Gershwin [arr. by Samuel Dushkin for violin and piano from Gershwin's "Two Novelettes" for piano] Performers: Ronald Erickson, violin (Fiddle Music; Soun...

58. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity The Early Music of Roger Sessions [1.881% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: The Early Music of Roger Sessions Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian presents three works from the early period of the American composer, Roger Sessions. Born in 1896, Sessions studied music at Harvard and Yale, where his teachers included Ernest Bloch. After traveling for a number of years in Europe, where he also started writing his first major works, Sessions returned to the United States to teach at Princeton and U. C. Berkeley, where he influenced a whole generation of composers including Milton Babbitt, Earl Kim, John Adams, Andrew Imbrie, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and many more. The compositions heard during this program include two works for solo piano, “From My Diary” and “Sonata No. 1”. The program concludes with Session’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra” performed by Paul Zukofsky with Gunther Schuller conducting the ORTF Orchestra. Musical Selections: From my Diary (1937"40) (9:00) -- Sonata No. 1 for Piano (...

59. radiOM.org - Morning Concert In Honor of Leo Ornstein’s 95th Birthday (Dec. 11, 1987) [1.655% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: In Honor of Leo Ornstein’s 95th Birthday (Dec. 11, 1987) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 119 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) On December 11, 1987 Leo Ornstein, one of the most important composer-pianists of the 20th century,celebrated his 95th birthday at his home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In this program, Charles Amirkhanian takes a look at the career of this remarkable path-breaking musician whose early piano compositions, and performances of the most radical European composers of the day, shocked audiences throughout the U. S. in the period from 1912 to 1915. Included are several of his piano works performed by Michael Sellers and Martha Anne Verbit, as well as two chamber works, and an orchestral work featuring the Louisville Orchestra. Amirkhanian also interviews the 95 year old composer over the phone from his home, during which Ornstein discusses the loss of his wife two years previously, his then current effort...

60. radiOM.org - Pacifica Chamber Players A Concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players, (Dec. 19, 1971) [1.604% Popularity: 0.00000]

Pacifica Chamber Players: A Concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players, (Dec. 19, 1971) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 63 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players given on December 19, 1971 at the Berkeley Piano Club, featuring songs by Beethoven and Schubert as well as new music by George Antheil, Elizabeth Gyring, & Henry Cowell. The Pacifica Chamber Players were a group of local San Francisco Bay Area musicians who often performed live, in-studio concerts, for KPFA. The group’s director was clarinetist Tom Rose, who for this particular concert was joined by soprano Anna Carol Dudley, violinist Anne Crowden, cellist Kathleen Franceschi, as well as Nancy Ellis on viola, and Ricklen Nobis on piano. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Six Scottish [and Irish] Songs: Faithfu’ Johnie [text by Anne Grant] (1813) ; The Massacre of Glenco [text by Sir Walter Scott] (1810) ; Bonnie Laddie, Highland Laddie [text by J. Hogg] (1815) ; Sunset [text by Sir Walter Scott] ...