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1. radiOM.org - A Concert by the Black Archives Orchestra (May 20, 1978) [5.077% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert by the Black Archives Orchestra (May 20, 1978) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 57 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From a recording made on May 20, 1978, this is the debut concert by the Black Archives Orchestra under the direction of it’s founding conductor, Judith Williams. The concert, which was sponsored by the Oakland Museum Performing Arts Committee (John Patton Jr. coordinator), featured works by a number of composers of African descent, including Howard Swanson, Ulysses Kay, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and William Grant Still. The Black Archives, which varies in size from a small ensemble to a fuller chamber orchestra, depending on the demands of each presented work, was composed of mostly local San Francisco Bay Area musicians. Musical Selections: Soundpiece, for brass quintet (1952) (6:54) / Howard Swanson -- Brief Elegy, for oboe and strings (1946) (4:00) / Ulysses Kay -- Quintet, Op. 10, for clarinet and strings [excerpt] (1895) (6:01) / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -- Deat...

2. radiOM.org - Works by Ian Underwood and Douglas Leedy (May 1965) [0.941% Popularity: 0.00000]

Works by Ian Underwood and Douglas Leedy (May 1965) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 25 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Two works by Ian Underwood and Douglas Leedy, presented at a May 1965 concert on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley. The “Brass Quintet” was composed by Ian Underwood in April and May of 1965 for the composition seminar at U. C. Berkeley. There is no score, only a set of parts for the ensemble, which consists of two trumpets, two trombones, and French horn. On this recording the second trombone is played on a Wagner tuba. Each player’s part consists of six or seven pages, one or two minutes in length, which can be arranged in any order the player finds satisfactory. Thus, the piece has many possible version. The performance heard here was by a student ensemble. “Decay” is a composition by Douglas Leedy and Ian Underwood which utilizes a stereo tape recording of improvisations, strange but fascinating in their character, by an amateur pianists who sha...