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81. radiOM.org - Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert [0.467% Popularity: 0.00000]

Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 121 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This four part program is of a live broadcast from a concert given at 1750 Arch Street on February 3, 1974, in honor of Gertrude Stein on the 100th anniversary of her birth. During the intermission and while the audience viewed the film "The Last Still Life" by Ann Sandifer, Charles Amirkhanian plays a recording of a Suite from Virgil Thomson's opera, "The Mother of Us All", based on a text by Gertrude Stein. The live concert then concludes with an additional work by Thomson and one by Charles Shere. Part 1 of 4: Musical Selections: Miss Gertrude Stein as a Young Girl (1928) / Virgil Thomson -- A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (1922) / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla [text by Gertrude Stein] (1926) / Virgil Thomson -- She She and She (1974) / Charles Amirkhanian -- Sonata No.3 (1930) / Virgil Thomson Performers: Ron Erickson, violin (Stein as a young...

82. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity A Concert from Hilversum, Dec. 19, 1973 [0.463% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: A Concert from Hilversum, Dec. 19, 1973 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 90 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian introduces a program of music that he originally produced in 1973, in Hilversum, Holland, during his exchange program with the Dutch radio station, VPRO. This radio concert features an orchestral overture by George Antheil, two works for strings by Darius Milhaud, a string quartet by Germaine Tailleferre, and a symphony by Willem Pijper. The last two pieces are little known in the United States and serve as a reminder that many composers’ works, no matter how good, seldom get played, let alone recorded and mass distributed outside their own countries. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: McKonkey’s Ferry Overture (1948) (9:20) / George Antheil -- Sonatina, for two violins, Op. 221 (1940) (7:20) / Darius Milhaud -- String Quartet No. 12, Op. 252 (1945) (15:45) / Darius Milhaud -- String Quartet (1919-21) (10:35) ...

83. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8: Panel Discussion & Concert 2 (video) [0.449% 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...

84. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8, Concert 2: 01 “Sonata for Harpsichord” by Lou Harrison [0.141% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8, Concert 2: 01 “Sonata for Harpsichord” by Lou Harrison Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 10 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Lou Harrison's output of solo keyboard music spans his entire career, with some works he now prefers on harpsichord originally designated ‘for keyboard,' ‘for cembalo,' ‘for piano or harpsichord,' ‘for piano,' or even ‘for tack piano' (used also in mid-century as a harpsichord substitute). The opportunity to perform these works on various early keyboard instruments gives rise to creative solutions, for example, in tempo and idiomatic ornamentation. Beyond this, the attack and decay characteristics of each instrument subtly suggest which historic or occasional temperament will best support the structure and affect of each piece. “Sonata for Harpsichord” was composed by Harrison for Linda Burman-Hall to play on the eve of 2000. It offers three contrasting moods based on modal scales: a bustling, ...

85. radiOM.org - An Interview and Performance by Dane Rudhyar, (July 29, 1956) [0.086% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Interview and Performance by Dane Rudhyar, (July 29, 1956) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 66 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: Tenney Estate Additional Media Files (click to view) In a recording made on July 29, 1956, Dane Rudhyar is interviewed for KPCC Radio in Pasadena, California. Rudhyar talks about his early history, his decision to move to the United States in 1916, his interest in Indian and “Oriental” music, psychology, painting, and poetry. While he describes his music as having dissonant elements, Rudhyar seeks to make a distinction between his compositions, which he states are attempts to be attuned to human psychology, and the more technical exercises in modernism of other avant-garde pianist composers. To illustrate his comments Rudhyar performs a number of selections from “Moments,” a collection of tone poems for the piano that were later revised and republished in the 1970s as his “Pentagrams.” These brief but poignant and very resonant works are perfectly bal...

86. radiOM.org - Jean Nandi Harpsichord Recital (Dec. 12, 1971) [0.044% Popularity: 0.00000]

Jean Nandi Harpsichord Recital (Dec. 12, 1971) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 84 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A recital of harpsichord music by Jean Nandi, recorded on December 12, 1971 at the Berkeley Piano Club. Ms. Nandi plays a selection of works by Louis Couperin, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, & Lou Harrison. The harpsichord used in this concert was built for Jean Nandi in 1970 by Richard Alexander, of Berkeley California. The scaling is similar to an instrument made by Andreas Ruckers, of Antwerp, in 1639. This original instrument is now in the Gemeentemuseumin of The Hague, Netherlands. Mr. Alexander modified the design of the original, chiefly to allow a greater range. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Suite in G Minor / Louis Couperin -- Bergamasca (ca. 1635) / Girolamo Frescobaldi -- Partite 14 sopra l’Aria della Romanesca / Girolamo Frescobaldi Performers: Jean Nandi, harpsichord Genre: Classical Music Subject: 17th century classical ; Harpsichord mu...

87. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 8: Djerassi Resident Artists Program Panel Discussions (March 2002) [0.018% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 8: Djerassi Resident Artists Program Panel Discussions (March 2002) View Item Type: Video Duration: 5hr 12min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Prior to each annual Other Minds Festival the featured composers have traditionally gathered together for a number of days at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA., to meet each other and offer presentations about their works. In this program, recorded from March 3-5, 2002, you get the rare and invaluable opportunity of sitting in on these far ranging and interactive discussions, which provide insight into each composer’s early experiences and style of composing. In part one of this program, Charles Amirkhanian provides a brief introduction before Festival photographer John Fago attempts to put all the participants at ease about being on camera by showing some samples of his superb still photographs taken during earlier Festivals. Lou Harrison then talks about his style of composing and his use ...