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71. radiOM.org - New Music from Cal Arts James Tenney: Composer and Performer [0.975% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music from Cal Arts: James Tenney: Composer and Performer Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 89 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Ingram Marshall introduces performances and compositions by James Tenney, American composer, pianist and conductor. Tenney, who died in 2006, was the cofounder and director of the New York City based, Tone Roads Ensemble, and was an important member of the avant-garde scene in the 1960s and 70s. Between 1961 and 1964 he was the resident composer at Bell Labs where he became one of the first to experiment with digital synthesis and computer music. Later in his career he focused on composing for acoustic instruments and taught musical composition at CalArts where he influenced a new generation of composers. According to music critic Kyle Gann, when John Cage was asked in 1989 whom he would wish to study with if he were a young man today his answer was “James Tenney”. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Sonata No. 2 for Piano “Concord Sonata” (1916-19, rev. 1920s-40...

72. radiOM.org - The Life and Music of Elie Siegmeister [0.951% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Life and Music of Elie Siegmeister Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 135 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In a recording made on March 24, 1972 and first broadcast on July 31st of that year, Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Elie Siegmeister and his wife Hannah, while also playing a wide assortment of Siegmeister’s music. Known for his interest in American music and the plight of the working class, Siegmeister has written art songs, operas, musicals, and film scores, as well as a wide variety of orchestral and chamber works. In this delightful interview Siegmeister disputes Amirkhanian’s attempt to divide his career into an early Americana phase and a later period dedicated to more experimental and abstract music, saying that while certain works may emphasize one aspect more than the other both themes are generally present in all his music. An active composer since at least the 1930s Siegmeister knew many of the great American composers of his time and provides ente...

73. radiOM.org - Morning Concert 50th Anniversary of the Concert Societe Musicale Independante [0.906% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: 50th Anniversary of the Concert Societe Musicale Independante Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 125 min Event Type: Music and Interview Program Origin: KPFA On May 5, 1926 six young American composers who had been working in Paris presented their chamber music to an audience of musicians, intelligentsia, and socialites in the famed Salle Pleyel (or perhaps the nearby Salle Chopin). The concert, arranged by Nadia Boulanger and sponsored by the Societe Musicale Independente, a group which included the most celebrated European composers of the time, gave the French one of their first chances to hear what Americans were capable of musically. The program consisted of the Virgil Thomson's "Sonata da chiesa"; Herbert Elwell's "Nine Piano Pieces"; Aaron Copland's "As It Fell Upon a Day" and two jazz violin pieces, "Nocturne" and "Ukelele Serenade"; Walter Piston's "Piano Sonata"; Theodore Chanler's "Sonata for Violin and Piano"; and George Antheil's "First String Quartet". That program is r...

74. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Avant-Garde Music in the Netherlands [0.831% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Avant-Garde Music in the Netherlands Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 114 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA A fascinating visit with pianist Ton Hartsuiker and composer David Porcelijn, two prominent avant-garde figures in Holland and producers of that country’s nationwide weekly radio program, Musica Nova. Recorded January 15, 1974, in Hartsuiker’s home in The Hague, here is a lighthearted glimpse into the bowels of the obscure and little publicized aspects of experimental music in the Netherlands. Some of the most fascinating examples of Dutch composing are heard as well as Hartsuiker’s fishbowl and his Bechstein piano. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Plastic-Elastic (1970) (1:04) / Herman Damen -- Cocon [a.k.a. “Voices”] (1970) (8:56) / Herman Damen -- Monologue Machine (ca.1970) (5:47) / Herman Damen -- Hommage a Orff (1968) (6:00) / Herman Damen -- Sonatas and Interludes [excerpts] (1946-48) / John Cage -- Amoeba for X flutes (1968) / David Porcelij...

75. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, Concert Two [0.827% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Presents: Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, Concert Two Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 157 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds On November 13, 2009, at the Presidio Chapel in San Francisco, CA, Other Minds presented the second of two concerts dedicated to the music of Henry Cowell. Born in Menlo Park in 1897, Cowell began his musical career as a concert pianist, and is perhaps best known for pioneering such “ultramodern” performance techniques as “tone clusters,” in which the arms are used to play a number of notes simultaneously, and the direct manipulation of the strings of the piano, in a manner that presaged John Cage’s works for prepared piano. Yet Cowell’s greatest contribution to avant-garde music came with his publication of the journal “New Music Quarterly” and its associated recordings. First issued in 1927, and edited by Cowell until 1936 this journal was where many works, by what are now recognized as the greatest 20th century Ameri...

76. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Matthijs Vermeulen [0.763% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Matthijs Vermeulen Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 133 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Han Reiziger, the Music Director of VPRO, presents a program of music by Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen. Born in 1888 to a blacksmith, Vermeulen originally planned to be a priest but turned to music after being exposed to the theories of counterpoint while attending a seminary. He later moved to Amsterdam where he studied music first with Daniël de Lange, and later with Alphons Diepenbroc, whose daughter he would eventually take to be his second wife. A talented writer Vermeulen supported himself throughout his life by working for a number for newspapers as both a critic and editor covering a wide variety of subjects musical, cultural and political. Vermeulen’s music tended to be rather atonal and in 1918 he got involved in a dispute with the more traditionally minded chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg, resulting in his moving to France in the h...

77. radiOM.org - Comparatively Speaking Transcriptions of Bach’s Chorales & Sonatas [0.743% Popularity: 0.00000]

Comparatively Speaking: Transcriptions of Bach’s Chorales & Sonatas Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 65 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Originally broadcast in February 1980, Matthew Holdreith presents another program in his Comparatively Speaking series, in which he examines various transcriptions of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. In this recording, a number of Bach’s chorale preludes, fugues, and organ sonatas are presented in their original form, juxtaposed with some of the more famous arrangements of those same works, by a variety of composers, conductors, and musicians. Ranging from the elegantly reverential piano transcriptions of Myra Hess, Ferruccio Busoni, and Egon Petri, to the much reviled bombastic orchestral interpretations of Leopold Stokowski, and the delightful yet perhaps inappropriately airy arrangements by Mozart, these recordings are a testimony to the inspiration that the imaginative versatility of the Baroque master has provided to those that have...

78. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity A Concert of American Music for Violin and Piano [0.642% 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...

79. radiOM.org - Pacifica Chamber Players A Concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players, (Dec. 19, 1971) [0.628% 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] ...

80. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of David Jaffe [0.611% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of David Jaffe Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 76 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Composer-performer David Jaffe has bridged the gap between acoustic folk music and the world of cerebral computer music with a multi-stylistic approach. A lecturer at Stanford University, where much of his work is produced at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Jaffe also worked with neXt Computers on creating new types of music software. His composition “Impossible Animals” contains human vocal timbres in the shape of carefully analyzed bird songs. He is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian about his career. Also heard in this program is a recording by a 19th century equivalent of Jaffe, the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Telegram to the President, for string quartet and tape (1984) / David Jaffe -- [sample of winter wrens] -[sample of choral music with tape] -- Impossible Animals, for chorus and co...