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61. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4, Concert 3: 04 “Chorale Times Two” by Paul Dresher [1.794% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4, Concert 3: 04 “Chorale Times Two” by Paul Dresher Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 11 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Paul Dresher is an internationally active composer noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into his own coherent and unique personal style. He pursues many forms of musical expression, including experimental opera and music theater, chamber and orchestral composition, live instrumental electro-acoustic chamber music performances, and scores for theater, dance, and film. His performances utilize progressive contemporary music technology and the theatrical works use the resources of experimental theater to examine diverse issues in contemporary American culture. While experimenting with a Yamaha SY-99 synthesizer Dresher created a synthesizer timbre that intrigued him sonically and from which kept emerging a simple expanding chord progression. This suggested the kind of core harmonic progressions embodied in Bach chor...

62. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 (video) [1.769% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 (video) View Item Type: Video Duration: 175 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) This first part of this program begins with the concluding performance from the first concert of the OM 8 Festival held on March 7, 2002. The composition is “New Work,” an improvisation by The Circle Trio, Pauline Oliveros, accordion, India Cook, violin, and Karolyn van Putten, voice. The second concert of OM 8 Festival, held on March 8, 2002, then begins with a panel discussion moderated by Charles Amirkhanian and featuring Richard Teitelbaum, Tom Buckner, and composers Annea Lockwood, Lou Harrison. Teitelbaum talks about how his interest in shakuhachi music led him to collaborate with some of the great Japanese masters of the instrument and influenced many of his electro-acoustic compositions. Lou Harrison then demonstrates the tack piano, for which he thinks he has composed the only work for its sol...

63. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society A Concert by the Francesco Trio (April 17, 1978) [1.665% Popularity: 0.00000]

San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Concert by the Francesco Trio (April 17, 1978) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 72 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In a concert sponsored by the San Francisco Chamber Music Society, and originally recorded on April 17, 1978, violist John Graham joins the Francesco Trio in a performance of chamber works by Johannes Brahms, Earl Kim, and Antonín Dvořák. The Francesco Trio, a popular San Francisco Bay Area ensemble, consisted of David Abel on violin, Bonnie Hampton on cello, and Nathan Schwartz on piano. In this concert they perform a viola and piano sonata by Brahms, a piano trio by Earl Kim, and a piano quartet by Dvořák, thus proving their virtuosity at both contemporary and more tradtional compositions. Musical Selections: Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1, for viola and piano (1894) (24:05) / Johannes Brahms -- Monologues, for piano trio (1976) (12:45) / Earl Kim -- Piano Quartet in E Flat, Op. 87 (1889) (34:42) / Antonín Dvořák Performers: Joh...

64. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Berthold Goldschmidt [1.606% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Berthold Goldschmidt Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 115 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian explores the life and music of Berthold Goldschmidt (b. 1903). Goldschmidt is a German born composer who emigrated to England when Hitler came to power. There he existed in the margins of the musical world until his work was discovered by a number of younger composers in the early 1980s. He then experienced a sort of renaissance in which his works were performed and recorded, and also during which he composed a number of new works. This program includes a telephone interview with the 89 year old composer from London as well as interviews with a number of his relatives that live in the Bay Area. The program concludes with a promotion for the production of "The Flying Dutchman' by the Wagner Society of Northern California. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Letzte Kapitel (1930"31) -- Clarinet Quartet [excerpt] (1983) -- Sonata, Op. 10 (192...

65. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Chapel Court & Countryside: The Bach-Beethoven Connection [1.558% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Chapel Court & Countryside: The Bach-Beethoven Connection Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 123 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the “English Bach” John Christian Bach, and their influence on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, all in performances which attempt to approximate the sounds that audiences of the period might have experienced. Some listeners will prefer these performances, others will not; yet they all will find insights into how the majesty of Bach led to the magic of Mozart. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Sweet and Low [text by Alfred Tennyson] / Joseph Barnaby -- Trio Sonata on the Royal Theme, BWV 1079 [from “The Musical Offering”] (1747) / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Rondo in C Major, H. 260 (1774-80) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Symphonia No. 3 in C Major, H. 259 (1773) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- La D'Hericourt (1759) / Claude-Bénigne Balbastre -- Marche des marseil...

66. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey [1.555% 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...

67. 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 ;...

68. 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...

69. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Soundscapes, Symphonies, & Sonatas [1.171% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Soundscapes, Symphonies, & Sonatas Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 62 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In this program, Charles Amirkhanian plays an an eclectic mix of field recordings from Africa and the San Francisco Bay Area, interspersed with the first movement from a piano sonata by Mendelssohn, an early work by Roy Harris entitled “Symphony for Voices on Poems of Walt Whitman”, as well as a Sonatina for cello and piano by Bernard Wagenaar, and sound poetry by Diter Rot and Emmett Williams The Westminster Choir performs the Harris work which is conducted by John Finley Williamson, while Bernard Wagenaar’s “Sonatina for Cello and Piano”, is performed by cellist Naoum Benditzky and the composer on piano. Musical Selections: [excerpt of pre-circumcision dance music of the Diola of Senegal] -- [excerpt of children’s hunting call & drums announcing death of tribe member of the Topoke people of the Congo] -- Procession Music [from “Ceremony of Us”] / Charles Amirkhanian --...

70. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society A Concert of Music from France (January 10, 1977) [0.978% Popularity: 0.00000]

San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Concert of Music from France (January 10, 1977) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 78 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Pianist Janet Guggenheim organized this unique tribute to 20th century Gallic masters. Works heard included a little known sonata for trumpet and cello by Yves Chardon, Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Sonatine”, Marcel Delannoy’s “Rapsodie”, Jean Françaix’s sonata for trumpet and piano, and Vincent d’ Indy’s “Trio” for clarinet, cello, and piano. The concert, which was sponsored by the San Francisco Chamber Music Society was recorded on January 10, 1977, at the Fireman’s Fund Theater in San Francisco. The performers, all noted Bay Area musicians, were Janet Guggenheim on piano, Laurie McGaw on trumpet, Robert Sayre, cello, and Donald Carroll on saxophone and clarinet. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Sonata, Op. 21, for trumpet and cello (1958) (14:51) / Yves Chardon -- Piano Sonatine (1903-05) (10:21) / Maurice Ravel -- Rapsodie, for trumpet, ...