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91. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Lars-Gunnar Bodin and New Music from Sweden [1.269% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Lars-Gunnar Bodin and New Music from Sweden Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 141 mins Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program originally recorded on February 24, 1975, Charles Amirkhanian interviews visiting composer Lars-Gunnar Bodin, live in the studios of KPFA. Bodin, one of the most prominent composers in Sweden, is a leading practitioner of text-sound composition and electronic music. At the time of this recording Bodin was in the middle of a world tour that would take him to India and Iran, and yet he found the time to sit down with Amirkhanian to talk about his music as well as present a selection of compositions by other Sweden based composers. Much of the program is devoted to listening to Bodin’s “From Clouds.” The composition, elements of which were to accompany a large multi-media and theatrical piece entitled “Clouds,” features organ and other musique concrète sounds, all heavily processed by means of tape manipulation and analog synthesizer...

92. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey [2.241% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 107 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Born Dec. 29, 1912 in Melbourne, Australia, Peggy Glanville-Hicks was, until recently, virtually unknown in her native country. In 1931 she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied composition, piano and conducting with the cream of British musical life: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arthur Benjamin, Constant Lambert, and Malcolm Sargent. A traveling scholarship sent her to Vienna in 1936 to study with Egon Wellesz and to Paris for sessions with Nadia Boulanger. From 1942 to 1959, she lived in the United States, becoming active as a resourceful and inventive concert organizer, and as a brilliant music critic for the “New York Herald Tribune”, where her colleagues were Virgil Thomson, Lou Harrison and Paul Bowles. After leaving New York, she settled in Greece before returning to Australia in the mid-seventies. Her own music...

93. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Ben Johnston [0.448% 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...

94. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of David Cope (Jun. 23, 1978) [6.213% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of David Cope (Jun. 23, 1978) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 149 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In a program recorded on June 23, 1978, Charles Amirkhanian interviews San Francisco born composer David Cope. Born in 1941, Cope was at the time of this recording, a member of the faculty of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, but was for one year only teaching at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of “New Directions in Music,” “New Music Composition,” and “New Music Notation,” in which he sets out to catalogue new music notation in an attempt to codify or standardize the growing number of innovative notation schemes. This program features an interview with Cope in which he describes his recent projects and defends the Midwestern music scene, citing composers John Marshall, Walter Mays, and pioneering American avant-garde composer John J. Becker as examples of Midwestern excellence. Also heard in this program are performances...

95. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of David Jaffe [4.437% 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...

96. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Denys Bouliane [1.988% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Denys Bouliane Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 129 min Event Type: Interview and Music In an interview recorded in June of 1987, Charles Amirkhanian visits composer Denys Bouliane at his home in Cologne, Germany. Bouliane was born in 1955 in Quebec, Canada, but moved to Germany to study with György Ligeti. Bouliane is a former rock guitarist who became interested in classical music when the father of a friend gave him a recording by Stravinsky, after which he quickly decided to pursue a career as a composer, although he didn’t even know how to read music. After an initial rejection he eventually got accepted to study music at Laval University and is currently a Professor of Composition at McGill University. His carefully crafted scores reveal the influence of Charles Ives, Conlon Nancarrow, and Ligeti, in a style which music critic Peter Niklas Wilson has called Magic Realism, the musical equivalent of the literature style of Jorge Luis Borges. In this interview, Boul...

97. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of John Haussermann [0.831% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of John Haussermann Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 128 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA One of the most unusual and inspiring stories in modern American music is that of composer John Haussermann. Born in 1909, to a wealthy family then living in Manila, Haussermann studied music at the Cincinnati Conservatory (1924"27) and at Colorado College, before going to Paris in 1930 to study organ with Marcel Dupré. While in Paris he became friends with Maurice Ravel and began serious study of composition with Paul Le Flem. Active in the Cincinnati area from the 1930s to the 1950s, he was the founder of the Contemporary Concert series in Cincinnati. In 1967 he moved to San Francisco where he was to reside until his death in 1986. An encouraging example to many others who live with a physical disability, Haussermann was born with cerebral palsy and was later confined to a wheelchair after being in a car accident, and yet he composed for decades in all media from chamber ...

98. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Larry Austin [6.231% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Larry Austin Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 106 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In a program from 1988, Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of America’s most fascinating composers specializing in electro-acoustic and computer music, Larry Austin (b. 1930). From 1958-72 Austin taught at the University of California in Davis while also serving as the first editor of the avant-garde music composition journal, “Source.” In 1972 he moved to the University of South Florida, and in 1978 he began teaching at North Texas State University where he directed the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia. This program surveys his music, both instrumental and computer-generated. It includes a performance of his “Sinfonia Concertante: A Mozartean Episode” which takes as its text letters written by Mozart which are read by a narrator and then turned into computer sounds while a chamber orchestra plays music sometimes reminiscent of Mozart. Also heard is th...

99. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Robert Hughes and the Poetry of Ezra Pound [6.198% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Robert Hughes and the Poetry of Ezra Pound Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 176 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer, bassoonist, and conductor, Robert Hughes, one of the liveliest figures in San Francisco Bay Area music, and for many years conductor of the nationally prominent Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra. Hughes plays a selection of his works, largely in chronological order. The final four pieces in this program feature acoustic sounds juxtaposed against quadraphonic tapes realized primarily on Moog equipment at Mills College. Hughes is also one of the leading authorities on Ezra Pound. In 1958 he visited Pound at a mental institution in Washington D. C. Hughes reminisces about Pound, and we hear the poet reading from his works. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: [excerpt from “Cadences” mixed with a poem by Ezra Pound] -- Kama Sutra: Dance of Display ; Love Scene / Robert Hughes -- Upon ...

100. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Tim Souster [2.482% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Tim Souster Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 90 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA English composer, Tim Souster, visited the San Francisco Bay Area in 1978 in order to produce a new composition at Stanford University’s internationally renowned computer music center, and during his stay happily agreed to be interviewed on KPFA. Charles Amirkhanian introduces Souster and his music during the course of a lively program, recorded at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Center on October 3, 1978. “Driftwood Cortege” (1978), Souster’s computer piece, completed earlier that day, is premiered. Also heard are selections from Souster’s recorded works, including “Surfeit” (his homage to the Beach Boys) and “Spectral” ( a viola piece based on the sounds of the humpback whale). Souster also gives his rationale for having become interested in computer generated music after a long history of involvement primarily as an instrumental composer. (from KPFA Folio) P...