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71. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Alvin Curran, 1989 [0.096% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Alvin Curran, 1989 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 124 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer and musician Alvin Curran before a live audience on September 28, 1989, as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series. Curran creates a sensuous music with instrumental, vocal, electronic, and natural sounds. In addition to his work as a founding member of the Rome based, radical avant-garde group, Musica Electtronica Viva (MEV), Curran has composed for many large-scale outdoor events. This program includes excerpts from “Maritime Rites” a work that incorporates the words of John Cage mixed with a selection of fog horns; his “Waterworks” for computer controlled ships’ horns; and “Crystal Psalms” for six choruses, percussionists, and instrumental quartets. Curran also talks about his commissioned piece for the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musi...

72. radiOM.org - Golden Voices Interview with Ina Souez: Program One [0.093% Popularity: 0.00000]

Golden Voices: Interview with Ina Souez: Program One Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 mins Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In the first 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 s...

73. radiOM.org - Treasury of the 78's English Choral Music [0.090% Popularity: 0.00000]

Treasury of the 78's: English Choral Music Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 73 mins Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program first broadcast on July 27, 1962, John Whiting presents some early 78 rpm recordings of English choir music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Works by Henry Purcell, William Croft, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons, & John Blow are performed by the choirs of New College in Oxford, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, and King’s College. Most of these works feature arrangements by Edmund Horace Fellowes. Although these are early recordings and are at times a little scratchy, the music is of high enough quality to make all such distractions inconsequential to anyone interested in the best of early English Church Music. The added commentary by Whiting provides historical context on each composer, making the entire listening experience as informative as it is enjoyable. Musical Selections: Remember Not, Lord, Our Offen...

74. radiOM.org - World Ear Project Radio Tirana, Speaker’s Corner, French Radio [0.089% Popularity: 0.00000]

World Ear Project: Radio Tirana, Speaker’s Corner, French Radio Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 56 mins Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Recordings by Bill Collins, with political overtones, submitted to KPFA for their World Ear Project that featured ambient field recordings from around the globe. The first recording captures a Soviet Era English language broadcast from Radio Tirana in Albania. The content of the broadcast appears to be mostly focused on the Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. With it’s nationalistic music and clipped delivery style, the recordings serves as a vital reminder what it was like to receive news from behind the Iron Curtain during the height of the Cold War. This blast from the past is followed up with a recording made at Speaker’s Corner near Marble Arch in Hyde Park, London. In a tradition that goes to the late 1800’s this section of the Park has been an area where almost anyone can set up a soapbox and speak on any topic that they wis...

75. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 12: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 [0.089% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 12: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 145 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian moderates a panel discussion with the three composers featured in the second concert of the 12th Other Minds Festival. Maja Ratkje, who was too ill to take part in the panel discussion the day before, speaks about her interest in Japanese gagaku music as well as giving a preview of her work with the Norwegian group POING, which features the composer’s extended vocal techniques combined with electronics, saxophones, accordion, and string bass. Joëlle Leandre is French composer and string bass player, who discusses how her interest in sound poetry has influenced her interest in improvisational performance. Per Nørgård, the premiere Danish composer of his time, discusses his piece “Wie ein Kind” , and how it was inspired by Swiss schizophrenic, Adolf Wölfli and German poet Rainer ...

76. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Soul of Armenia: Folk Music Rarities of Komitas Vardapet [0.087% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Soul of Armenia: Folk Music Rarities of Komitas Vardapet Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 102 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA This program introduces some of the earliest and rarest recordings of Armenian folk music, soulful interpretations by performers who recorded during the 78 rpm era. Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935) was the first to document such works by recording the oral tradition of Armenian music. By 1912, he had recorded his own arrangements of these Armenian folk songs, (in the same way Bartok did for Hungarian music), with the legendary "Caruso of the Armenians," Armenak Shahmuradian. The latter traveled around the world from India to Fresno, California, performing this music, and his vocal legacy is unparalleled, as witnessed by these recordings from 1912 and 1916. The range, or tessitura, of most Armenian music is relentlessly stratospheric, in spite of which, Shahmuradian's breath control, declamation and ornamentation is of the highest order o...

77. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Ben Johnston [0.083% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Ben Johnston Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 126 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) American composer Benjamin Burwell Johnston was born March 15, 1926 in Macon, GA. Living briefly in Berkeley, CA, in 1950, he was associated with Harry Partch and studied at the University of California and Mills College. From 1951 to 1983 he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this program, recorded in 1981, Johnston is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian about his career, compositions, and influences. A composer fundamentally partial to microtones, Johnston discusses his discovery of just intonation, initiated by his contact with composer Partch. Heard during this program is a selection of Johnston’s microtonal music, including his string quartet built around the theme of “Amazing Grace” and his “Suite for Microtonal Music”, as well as his “Knocking Piece” in which two performers rap upon the interio...

78. radiOM.org - Morning Concert A Preview of the 1991 Composer to Composer Festival [0.083% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: A Preview of the 1991 Composer to Composer Festival Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 123 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA KPFA’s Charles Amirkhanian presents a preview of the compositions and composers featured during the 1991 Composer to Composer Festival, part of an international conference on New Music held at Telluride, Colorado, on July 11-14, 1991. Amirkhanian, who was co-director of the 1991 event, introduces selections highlighting many of the invited headliners, including, Eleanor Alberga, Louis Andriessen, Paul Dresher, Janice Giteck, Alicia Terzian, G. S. Sachdev, Pamela Z, and Tom Ze, among others. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: The Flowering Peach [incidental music for the play by Charles Odets] (1954) / Alan Hovhaness -- Symphony No. 2 “Mysterious Mountain”, Op. 132, (1955) / Alan Hovhaness -- [unidentified music] -- Breathing Songs from a Turning Sky (1980, rev. 1984) / Janice Giteck -- Making Music / Zakir Hussain -- Shant...

79. radiOM.org - A Life in Music: Elliott Carter [0.080% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Life in Music: Elliott Carter Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 116 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA This program provides an overview of Elliott Carter's compositions from 1942 to 1978. It includes excerpts from several of his works, including the “Symphony No. 1” (1942), “Piano Sonata” (1945-6), “Cello Sonata” (1948), and “Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano” (1961). Importantly, the program also includes recordings of complete performances of the “Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord” (1952) with an informative analysis by David Schiff (Carter's biographer). In addition, the “String Quartet No. 2” (1959), “Symphony of Three Orchestras”, and “Syringa for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone and Chamber Orchestra” are presented. Elliott Carter and David Schiff are interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian. This program was produced, written, edited and hosted by Steve Robinson. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Symphony No. 1 [excerpt] (1942) -- Piano Sonata [excerpt] (1945-6) -- Sonata...

80. radiOM.org - Voices: A Cantata by Hans Werner Henze [0.076% Popularity: 0.00000]

Voices: A Cantata by Hans Werner Henze Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 110 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Hans Werner Henze’s full length cantata “Voices,” recorded live at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on January 24, 1978. This, the Bay Area premiere of the work features Claudia Cummings, soprano, John Duykers, tenor, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players conducted by Jean Louis LeRoux. According to the composer’s notes found in the concert program guide: “Except for ‘Prison Song,’ which was originally composed for Yamashta in 1971, these songs were written between January and June 1973...I had wanted to set some of the poems for many years, but it was only in 1973 that I felt the possibility of integrating them into a larger song cycle. The choice of the poems and the order in which they are arranged reflect my own personal political perspective and emotional involvement, and it is this perspective and these feelings which give the cycle its cohesion, rather than ...