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1. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4, Concert 2: 03 “Homeless People” by Henry Brant [6.625% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4, Concert 2: 03 “Homeless People” by Henry Brant Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 28 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Henry Brant is considered to be one of the principal pioneers of spatial music, writing works in which the planned positioning of the performers throughout the hall, as well as on stage, is an essential factor in the composing scheme. About this work Brant writes: "As the 20th Century concludes there is scarcely anyone on the planet who is not in some significant way a member of the universal human species, ‘Homeless People’. As such this multi-layerd phenomenon offers an overpowering subject for musical treatment. The venue of spatial chamber music seems especially appropriate. The four quartet-players are stationed in the corners of the hall; the piano, alone onstage, played directly on the strings and the accordion have no communication with the quartet or with each other." Musical Selections: Homeless People (1997) (27:33) / Henry Brant...

2. radiOM.org - Meteor Farm by Henry Brant [6.384% Popularity: 0.00000]

Meteor Farm by Henry Brant Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 67 min Event Type: Music A recording of Henry Brant’s “Meteor Farm”, a piece scored for two sopranos, three South Indian performers, two choruses, West African chorus, jazz band, gamelan, and two percussion ensembles. This is an incredible mix of musical styles all compressed into one hour of continuous sound. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Meteor Farm (1982) [Part 1] / Henry Brant Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble ; Gamelan music ; Jazz ; World music ; Ethnic music People: Brant, Henry, 1913- First Broadcast Date: 4/12/1982 Part 2 of 2: Musical Selections: Meteor Farm (1982) [Part 2] / Henry Brant Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble ; Gamelan music ; Jazz ; World music ; Ethnic music People: Brant, Henry, 1913- First Broadcast Date: 4/12/1982 Listen...

3. radiOM.org - Henry Brant at KPFA, August 16, 1971 [5.161% Popularity: 0.00000]

Henry Brant at KPFA, August 16, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 119 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Henry Brant, born in 1913 in Montreal, surveys his music with Charles Amirkhanian. Brant has enlarged upon the musical practices of Gabrieli and Ives to create "spatial music." This music calls for the physical separation of different groups of musicians within the performance space who simultaneously perform wildly diverse music in and around the audience. Brant has also experimented with unusual instruments some of which have been built specifically for his compositions. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Hieroglyphics II (1966) / Henry Brant -- Odyssey Why Not? (1965) / Henry Brant Performers: Daniel Kobialka, violins (Hieroglyphics II) Henry Brant, percussion (Hieroglyphics II) Genres: New Music ; Unconventional Instruments Subject: Gabrieli, Giovanni, 1557-1612 ; Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 ; Brant, Henry, 1913- ; New music ; Unconventional instruments ; Spatial music ;...

4. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Music by Henry Brant, Nicolay Medtner, & Bonifazio Asioli [5.107% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Music by Henry Brant, Nicolay Medtner, & Bonifazio Asioli Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian introduces works by Henry Brant, Nicolay Medtner, & Bonifazio Asioli. The first work, “Millennium IV” by Henry Brant, is a piece of spatial music for brass quintet. Next are two piano sonatas performed by Vladimir Pleshakov. The first is the “Sonata-Ballada” by Russian composer Nicolay Medtner, followed by the “Sonata in C Major” by Bonifazio Asioli. Henry Brant is considered to be one of the principal pioneers of 20th Century spatial music, writing work in which the planned positioning of the performers throughout the hall, as well as on stage, is an essential factor in the composing scheme. Nicolay Medtner was both a composer and pianist, and all of his many compositions include a part for the piano. Born in 1769, Bonifazio Asioli was an Italian composer, as well as a musical theorist and playwright. Musical Selections: Millen...

5. radiOM.org - An Interview with Virgil Thomson [5.093% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Interview with Virgil Thomson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 28 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer and music critic Virgil Thomson in a recording most likely made in the early or mid-1970s. Amirkhanian questions the elderly Thomson about his time in Paris studying with Nadia Boulanger, and about his friendships with such composers as George Antheil, Henry Brant, and Henry Cowell. The two also discuss how Virgil first met Gertrude Stein when Antheil asked him to join him for a dinner with the poet, and how she never really took a liking to the brash American pianist, but did strike up a lasting friendship and musical collaboration with Thomson. Also touched upon during this fascinating look back by one of the United States foremost music critics, is Thomson’s less then glowing opinions about the music of John Cage. Genres: 20th Century Classical ; Avant-Garde Subject: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989 ; Boulange...

6. radiOM.org - Pacifica Chamber Players An Avant-Garde Concert, (January 19, 1971) [4.569% Popularity: 0.00000]

Pacifica Chamber Players: An Avant-Garde Concert, (January 19, 1971) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 103 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The Pacifica Chamber Players, formed for the purpose of playing studio concerts over the air on KPFA, present a concert of music composed for the ensemble by Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Friedman, Charles Shere, Julian White, plus a work written by the American composer Henry Brant. The Players include different performers for each concert, depending on the music chosen by the ensemble's director, clarinetist, Thomas Rose. The first piece, "Knell", by Amirkhanian features the tape manipulation of a previously recorded live concert and uses numerous unusual sound-making devices. Brant's "Variation for Four Instruments" was written when Brant was only 17 years old. This early work exhibits what Brant has termed "oblique harmony," a procedure by which the various resolutions of the separate voices sound at different times, (in the form of a slant when vie...

7. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Henry Brant [4.396% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Henry Brant Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 98 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews avant-garde composer Henry Brant about his life and music on February 9, 1984 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series. Brant is perhaps best known for his work with spacial music, that is music for spatially distinct groups of instruments, with many of his compositions calling for multiple ensembles performing in different parts of a concert hall. (Note: original recording starts in mid-speech) Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Percussion Symphony [1st movement] (1951) -- Inside Track (1982) -- Vuur onder Water (Fire under Water) [excerpt] (1983) Performers: CalArts Twentieth Century Players, (Inside Track) Amy Snyder, co-conductor (Inside Track) Henry Brant, co-conductor (Inside Track) Yvar Mikhashoff, piano (Inside Track) Genres: New Music ; Orchestral Music Subject: Brant, Henry, 1913- ; New music ; Orchestral musi...

8. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Interview with Daniel Kobialka [1.759% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Interview with Daniel Kobialka Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 84 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a recording made in 1973 violinist Daniel Kobialka is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian after having just recently returned from Atlanta, GA, where he gave the world premiere performance of Ben Weber’s “Violin Concerto”. Kobialka, who was on the faculty at Hayward State, talks about his many performances of works by living composers, including Lou Harrison, Henry Brant, Leonard Bernstein, and many more. In addition Kobialka describes his first forays into composition, including a collaboration with a rock band. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Concerto in Slendro (1961) / Lou Harrison -- Rakka, for violin and tape (1970) / Glen Glasow -- Hieroglyphics II (1966) / Henry Brant -- Untitled Piece [”Echoes (1973)”] / Daniel Kobialka -- Fantasy Variations / Donald Martino Performers: Daniel Kobialka, violin (all selections) Robert Hughes, conductor (Concer...