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61. radiOM.org - Morning Concert A Visit with Composer Philip Corner [0.147% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: A Visit with Composer Philip Corner Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 126 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In this program, recorded in May of 1979, New York composer Philip Corner is the guest of Charles Amirkhanian. He discusses his music in preparation for his appearance at the Exploratorium in San Francisco as part of the Speaking of Music series of lecture/performances. As a member of the faculty of Livingston College (Rutgers University), Corner continued his provocative, improvisation-oriented, music making based on highly original, open-ended, beautifully handwritten, performance notations which have become a trademark of his style. In this program he talks about his association with such artists as Carlos Santos and Elaine Sommers, international audiences response to new music, and music as a form of meditation. A number of compositions are heard including several pieces for gamelan, performed by the Gamelan Son of Lion ensemble of which Corner was a...

62. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents Alan Hovhaness Centennial Celebration (Mar. 13, 2011) [0.145% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Presents: Alan Hovhaness Centennial Celebration (Mar. 13, 2011) View Item Type: Video Duration: 117 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 premieres, as well as a rarely heard composition by the Armenian composer Vardapet K...

63. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity The Music of Steve Reich, 1980 [0.139% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: The Music of Steve Reich, 1980 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 111 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Steve Reich in May of 1980. The interview begins with Reich giving a brief description of his childhood experiences as a piano student and member of a school band. He then plays two recordings of his “Music for a Large Ensemble”, highlighting the ways in which he revises a piece based on his ability to rehearse it, explaining that he always prefers to work with his own ensemble, perfecting a piece, before allowing it to be played by others. Reich then continues to focus on the ability for each performer to bring their own expression to Reich’s compositions, by playing two versions of his “Violin Phase” played at different tempos. In the second half of the program, Reich touches upon his renewed interest in Orthodox Judaism, including the chanting of Hebrew scripture, and how these studies have influenced his works such a...

64. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8, Concert 2: 04 Two pieces by Annea Lockwood [0.134% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8, Concert 2: 04 Two pieces by Annea Lockwood Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 36 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) “Duende” was commissioned by Thomas Buckner, with whom I have collaborated for several years, composing two other works for him, “Night and Fog” and “The Angle of Repose”. This is the most collaborative of the three works, and draws on the remarkable and expressive array of sounds which he has evolved over years of improvisational work, a form of personal vocabulary. From this vocabulary I selected sounds which remind me of certain vocal transformations I have heard in recordings of shamanic ceremonies. In such singing, changes in the voice mirror and also help to bring about changes in the singer's mind and awareness. Within an improvisational framework, Thomas Buckner explores the possibility of change of state through such transformations, moving through three stages: preparation, a first flight, and a ...

65. radiOM.org - May-Day, or the Little Gypsy & Eight Songs for a Mad King [0.132% Popularity: 0.00000]

May-Day, or the Little Gypsy & Eight Songs for a Mad King Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 98 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A performance of two pieces of musical theater by the New Port Costa Players given at the UC Berkeley’s Museum in 1975. The first work, “May-Day, or the Little Gypsy” by the 18th century composer Thomas Arne, is a delightful romantic comedy set in a rural village which incorporates comic dialogue and medieval sounding melodies. The second work is Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ “Eight Songs for a Mad King”. Originally inspired by a music box that once belonged to King George III of England, this is a work for one male voice with a remarkable vocal range, performed here by the incredible John Duykers. Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: May-Day, or the Little Gypsy [part 1, libretto by David Garrick] / Thomas Arne Performers: New Port Costa Players Susan Rode Morris, soprano Genres: Music Theater ; Opera Subject: Music theater ; Songs with instrumental ensemble People: Arne...

66. radiOM.org - Golden Voices Interview with Ina Souez: Program Two [0.130% Popularity: 0.00000]

Golden Voices: Interview with Ina Souez: Program Two Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 mins Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In the second of two self-contained one hour programs originally recorded in 1960, Anthony Boucher interviews soprano Ina Souez, about her career as an opera singer. Although Souez spent much of her time performing in the great European opera houses during the 1920s and 30s, she was in fact born to a family of Cherokee decent in Colorado in 1903. Souez initially studied with the Canadian singer Florence Hinman, before moving to Milan at the age of 18, where she quickly made an impression and was soon performing across Europe. She married an English diplomat in the 1930s, moving to the U.K. where she became a regular performer at the influential Glyndebourne Festival and Covent Garden. After World War II, she largely gave up opera and instead toured extensively as a jazz singer performing with Spike Jones’ band the City Slickers, before retiring from the ...

67. radiOM.org - Open Evening Beethoven's 200th Birthday: The Avant-Garde Celebrates Beethoven? [0.122% Popularity: 0.00000]

Open Evening: Beethoven's 200th Birthday: The Avant-Garde Celebrates Beethoven? Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 184 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA A somewhat irreverent, bicentennial birthday celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven with Charles Amirkhanian, pianist Julian White, and guests. After a rousing start with Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven.” the “Overture to ‘Fidelio’” is heard, followed by a reading by George Cleve on the subject of Beethoven’s life and death. Amirkhanian then plays a number of the Maestro’s lighter works, including his “Trio in G Major” for three flutes, and the “Five Variations on ‘Rule Britannia.” Charles is then joined by White who reads from a number of biographical sketches written by Beethoven’s contemporaries as well as some entries from the composer’s diary. This is followed by a discussion of Beethoven’s declining health with two purported medical experts, Drs. Gestalt and Schmutzig. Their credentials and command of medical terminology ...

68. radiOM.org - Oakland Museum Concerts Chamber Music Concert, April 16, 1971 [0.116% Popularity: 0.00000]

Oakland Museum Concerts: Chamber Music Concert, April 16, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 82 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This is the third in a series of four concerts of chamber music put on by the Oakland Museum in the Spring of 1971. The focus of the concerts was works by contemporary California composers, although the programs also included other works, as seen fit by the program director Donald Cobb. Thus this third concert, recorded on April 16, 1971, includes works by William Byrd, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Carl Ruggles, Andrew Imbrie, Joseph Haydn, and Henry Cowell. All performed by local San Francisco Bay Area musicians. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Fantasia No. 1 (5:05) / William Byrd -- Second Concert: La Laborde (3:30) ; La Boucon (3:15) ; L’agaçante (1:40) ; First Menuet ; Second Menuet / Jean Philippe Rameau -- Angels (1920) (3:10) / Carl Ruggles -- Serenade (1952) (18:20) / Andrew Imbrie Performers: Nathan Rubin, violin (Fantasia ; Concert ; Angels) Ronald Ericks...

69. radiOM.org - San Francisco Chamber Music Society A Concert of Vocal Music with Stephanie Friedman (October 26, 1981) [0.108% Popularity: 0.00000]

San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Concert of Vocal Music with Stephanie Friedman (October 26, 1981) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 94 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The first concert of the 1981-82 season of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society featured a performance of 20th century art songs by mezzo-soprano Stephanie Friedman, accompanied by a variety of San Francisco Bay Area musicians. Featured works included Edward Lawton’s “Medieval Triptych” a musical setting of 13th century texts; four poems by James Joyce as set to music by David Del Tredici; and three “Madegascan Songs” by Maurice Ravel with texts by the poet Évariste Parny. After an intermission the concert continued with five songs by Béla Bartók, using romantic verse by his very young lover Klára Gombossy and her friend Wanda Gleiman; a lengthy setting of a poem by Georg Trakl by Paul Hindemith; and concludes with two settings for piano, of poems by Pablo Neruda, by the pioneering American woman composer Vivian Fi...

70. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents Alan Hovhaness Centennial Celebration (March 13, 2011) [0.101% 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...