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71. radiOM.org - MACHUNAS: A Performance Oratorio in Four Colors [0.473% Popularity: 0.00000]

MACHUNAS: A Performance Oratorio in Four Colors View Item Type: Video Duration: 144 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Frank Oteri The story of “MACHUNAS” is an emblem of the end of twentieth century culture, in all its tragedy, irony, delusions and immense vitality. It’s inspired by and based on four key episodes in the life and death of George Maciunas, an architect, artist, activist and founder of the Fluxus art movement, the last avant-garde utopia of the modern era. His name is misspelled on purpose, both due to phonetic considerations and the desire to separate this story from any accurate description of his life. The four acts of “MACHUNAS” are divided into Yellow, Green, Red, Blue, and each act has 9 parts. “MACHUNAS “ begins in Yellow, narrating the days of a young child in the old Lithuania that’s about to be extinguished by the Nazis and Soviets and transitions into Green through the story of a teenager strangely out of place and time in an American-controlled refugee camp in Germany. Representi...

72. radiOM.org - Machine: An Electronically Preserved Dream by Trevor Wishart [0.306% Popularity: 0.00000]

Machine: An Electronically Preserved Dream by Trevor Wishart Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 64 min Event Type: Music Originally broadcast in October of 1972 this recording represented the American premiere of an hour-long work by the British electro-acoustic composer, Trevor Wishart. The piece “Machine: An Electronically Preserved Dream,” was completed in 1971 and was the first major composition by Wishart. It was performed at the International Carnival of Electronic Sound series in London and was eventually released in 1973. Made without any traditional musical instruments, the work is a creative mixture of collected industrial and electronic sounds, spoken texts, and improvised choirs, all intricately edited into a single continuos soundscape. This work is both a philosophical investigation of industrialization and a simply great soundtrack for dishwashing, dreaming, driving, or best of all, whatever is on television right now! Musical Selections: Machine: An Electronically Preserved Dream (197...

73. radiOM.org - Morning Concert A Visit with Arthur Berdahl [4.717% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: A Visit with Arthur Berdahl Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 49 mins Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian talks with the Knute Rockne of American music educators, Dr. Arthur C. Berdahl, longtime professor of music at Fresno State College (retired) and one of the founders of symphonic music in Fresno, California. From 1932 to 1954, Berdahl conducted the Fresno State College Symphony Orchestra and taught music theory, composition, and other music courses to the most prominent musicians to come out of the Central Valley. One of his students, Leslie Bassett, won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for music. Berdahl describes how when he first arrived in Fresno he managed to expand the size and quality of the College Orchestra by incorporating local non-student musicians, to the mutual advantage of all involved. He also modestly describes his early career as an English literature graduate, athletic director, and coach, before finally deciding to pursue his interest in mus...

74. radiOM.org - Morning Concert An Hurrian Cult Song from Ancient Ugarit [1.931% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: An Hurrian Cult Song from Ancient Ugarit Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 27 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, Professor of Assyriology at the University of California at Berkeley, about an LP ”Sounds from silence; Recent discoveries in ancient Near Eastern music” which documents a previously unknown musical composition dating from around 1400 BC. This ancient fertility hymn from Ugarit caused an international sensation when modern research made available for the first time, the knowledge necessary for the translation of ancient clay tablets which served as a key to various musical scores of the ancient Near East. The record was released by Bit Enki Records in Berkeley, CA, and contains one of the earliest notated songs in the world, performed by Richard Crocker, on a lyre built to ancient specifications by Robert R. Brown. Kilmer talks about the archaeological discoveries that led to the decipherment of this ancien...

75. radiOM.org - Morning Concert An Interview with Arturo Salinas [0.776% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: An Interview with Arturo Salinas Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 45 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In an interview, recorded on June 22, 1979, Charles Amirkhanian talks with the Mexican composer Arturo Salinas. Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Salinas studied composition with Robert Cogan at the New England Conservatory, ethnomusicology with Charles Boilès in Montreal, electro-acoustic music and microtonality with Jean-Etienne Marie in Paris, and orchestral conducting with Igor Markevitch. Included in this program is a complete performance of his “Memoire Imarcescible”, an electro-acoustic tape piece, utilizing the microtonal piano built by the Mexican composer and microtonal music pioneer, Julián Carrillo. Salinas describes this piano, which has 96 keys covering just one octave, and talks about how differences in pitch and timbre become almost synonymous when working with such small intervals, particularly in the lower ranges. Salinas also briefly goes into th...

76. radiOM.org - Morning Concert An Interview with Charlemagne Palestine [5.080% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: An Interview with Charlemagne Palestine Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 13 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In this brief interview with Charles Amirkhanian, recorded on Nov. 20, 1980, composer Charlemagne Palestine discusses how his early minimal drone works were a reaction to the dense compositional style of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, but have since evolved beyond basic minimalism to embrace a more complex sonority. He then goes on to give a description of his string piece for 11 performers, “Birth of a Sonority”, as well as his pieces for the Bösendorfer piano. Much of Palestine’s work is focused on the use of overtones. The interview concludes with an excerpt of “Schlingen Blaengen” an organ piece recorded in 1979. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Schlingen Blaengen [excerpt] (1979) / Charlemagne Palestine Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: Palestine, Charlemagne ; 20th century classical ; Harmonics (Music) ; Organ music People: Amirkhania...

77. radiOM.org - Morning Concert An Interview with Mari Kimura (Aug. 9, 1991) [0.777% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: An Interview with Mari Kimura (Aug. 9, 1991) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 22 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Mari Kimura, the brilliant violinist and composer from Japan is interviewed about her career and her recent composition “U (The Cormorant),” for violin and tape. She also describes some of the challenges of performing music that blends electronics with a traditional instrument. Recorded at just the beginning of her career this interview provides an excellent introduction to a violinist and composer who was soon to go on to develop a bowing technique that allowed her to explore subharmonics on the violin. Musical Selections: U (The Cormorant) (1991) / Mari Kimura -- Walking Tune [excerpt] / Charles Amirkhanian Performers: Mari Kimura, violin (U) Genre: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic Subject: Kimura, Mari, violinist ; Davidovsky, Mario, 1934- ; Electro-acoustic ; Electronic music ; Electronic and violin music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Kimura, M...

78. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Armenian Martyr's Day, 1978 [0.321% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Armenian Martyr's Day, 1978 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 66 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program made in 1978, Charles Amirkhanian commemorates the genocide of the Armenian People by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 with music by the Chancel Choir of Pilgrim Armenian Congregational Church in Fresno California. The devastating loss of life that occurred in Armenia and Turkey during the waning years of the First World War finds a fitting eulogy in Theodore DuBois’ composition “The Seven Last Words of Christ”. Charles Amirkhanian, whose family fled the horror in Armenia, introduces the piece. Charles then interviews Annig Zindarsian, church organist at St. Gregory’s in San Francisco, and former singer with the group The Axidentals, about a scheduled march to mark the anniversary of the Armenian massacres and to call for the reestablishment of an independent Armenian State, an event that would finally occur after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1989. ...

79. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Armenian Martyr's Day, 1992 [0.220% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Armenian Martyr's Day, 1992 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 78 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Beginning with the touching folk tune “Garun A”, transcribed by Komitas for chorus and piano, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a program of Armenian music rich in variety and textures. Recorded live at KPFA Radio, this concert was timed to coincide with Armenian Martyr's Day. In Turkey on April 24, 1915, the leaders of the Ottoman Empire set in motion a genocidal massacre of Armenians in an effort to rid the country of this Christian minority that had lived in peace there for many centuries. Composer Maia Aprahamian of Tiburon, California, didn't know her father was Armenian until she was 17. Her story is a touching one told in her own words. She studied composition with Vittorio Giannini and we hear her serenely beautiful work "Batter My Heart" (after the John Donne poem), performed at Grace Cathedral by Barry Tuckwell (French horn) and John Fenstermaker (organ) r...

80. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Charles Amirkhanian's 20th Anniversary Program [0.775% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Charles Amirkhanian's 20th Anniversary Program Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 129 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Celebrating 20 years as KPFA's music director, Charles Amirkhanian begins this anniversary show with a work of sound poetry of his own composition. He then plays pieces by Robert Pollock, Roger Sessions, and George Antheil recorded from a concert at Rutgers University on June 3, 1989. Charles then takes a few calls from the audience with their comments and suggestions for programing on KPFA, and finishes it off with a work by Alan Hovhaness. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: The Putts (1981) / Charles Amirkhanian -- Revolution, for nine instruments (1975-76) / Robert Pollock -- Concertino, for chamber orchestra (1971-72) / Roger Sessions Performers: Composers Guild of New Jersey. Performance Ensemble (Revolution, Concertino) Joel Suben, conductor (Revolution) David Gilbert, conductor (Concertino) Genres: 20th Century Cl...