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1. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey [5.051% 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...

2. radiOM.org - William S. Burroughs Press Conference at the Berkeley Museum of Art, Nov. 12, 1974 [5.083% Popularity: 0.00000]

William S. Burroughs Press Conference at the Berkeley Museum of Art, Nov. 12, 1974 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 39 min Event Type: Interview At a press conference for an unidentified occasion, William S. Burroughs fields an array of questions and discusses his relationships with, or opinions of, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Jose Delgado, and Alfred Korzybski, among others. Burroughs also gives his opinions on the women's movement, contemporary (1974) politics (Watergate, etc.), governmental methods of civilian control, and the possibilities of revolution and rebellion in the contemporary era. There is also a fairly extensive discussion in the last ten minutes of the program on his writing process, including use of the cut-up method or collage writing and the relationship of his own writing to the science fiction genre. Genres: Literature ; Current Events Subject: Bowles, Paul ; Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 ; Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996 ; Delgado, Jose ; Korzybski, Alfred ; Burroughs,...