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1. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Leo Ornstein Centenary Program [3.996% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Leo Ornstein Centenary Program Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 110 min Event Type: Music and Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Composer-pianist Leo Ornstein is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian on the occasion of his 100th birthday! Severo Ornstein, the son of the composer, is in the studio with Amirkhanian to provide commentary, while Leo Ornstein and another near centenarian, Nicolas Slonimsky, are interviewed by phone. The discussion centers on Ornstein's early history as a Wunderkind pianist in the 1910s, and his enormous output of music over nine decades of composing. Slonimsky details a recent revival of Ornstein's music in his native Russia and Severo talks of his efforts to get Ornstein's music back into print. Note: “The Poem for Flute & Piano” was recorded November 7, 1988, at a San Francisco Contemporary Music Players concert. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Echo Primitiv [from “9 Arabesques for Piano”] (1918-1920) -- Suicide in an ...

2. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Interview with Daniel Kobialka [0.196% 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...

3. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Brecht Composers: A Musical Brecht-fest [3.978% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Brecht Composers: A Musical Brecht-fest Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 130 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Russ Jennings is joined by theatrical director R. G. Davis in a program dedicated to the various composers that worked with Bertolt Brecht. Davis describes the evolution of Brecht’s political philosophy and how that was reflected in the composers he chose to work with. Particular attention is paid to the period of 1927 to 1933 which saw Brecht’s most successful collaborations with Kurt Weill give way to the more Marxist influenced agitprop theater he created with Hanns Eisler. Davis also plays excerpts from a number of early operas by Arnold Schoenberg that illustrate the early influences of both Eisler and Weill, and set the stage for their transition of serious music from concert halls to musical theaters. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [music from the film “Niemandsland”] (1931) / Hanns Eisler -- Galathea [text by Frank Wedekind] (1901) / Arnold...

4. radiOM.org - Morning Concert John Adams’ “Nixon in China” and an interview with Harvey Sollberger [2.918% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: John Adams’ “Nixon in China” and an interview with Harvey Sollberger Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 128 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA This program, recorded on March 10, 1988, begins with Charles Amirkhanian’s brief interview with composer Harvey Sollberger in which they discuss two of Sollberger’s works, “Persian Golf” and “Three or Four Things I Know About the Oboe.” The two are then joined by composer John Adams for a discussion about the state of New Music in the San Francisco Bay Area. The bulk of the program is then dedicated to John Adams’ blockbuster opera “Nixon in China.” This masterwork of contemporary opera was written in collaboration with director Peter Sellars and poet Alice Goodman, and at the time of this recording was just about to be released on compact disc. This recording of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s production (December, 1987, NY) features singers John Duykers and Carolann Page, among others. The opera tells the story of Pres...

5. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Morton Feldman, Jan. 30, 1986 [0.141% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Morton Feldman, Jan. 30, 1986 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 97 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a recording made on January 30, 1986 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Morton Feldman and asks him right at the start if his music is Hermetic. The answers take us on a whirlwind tour of this composer's opinions, philosophy, criticisms, recollections and observations. There are excerpts from his “Piano and String Quartet” as well as his “Violin and Orchestra”. Feldman indicates that his compositions, which are usually lengthy, can be compared to the novels of Proust or the drinking of fine wine: and are to be sipped rather than gulped. Don't give up listening until you find out why Fred Astaire danced so well, or why Beethoven wrote his C-sharp minor String Quartet; Feldman provides the answers! Thanks to the Estate of Morton Feldman for permission to share this historic interview. All R...

6. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey [1.368% 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...

7. radiOM.org - Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert [1.790% 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...

8. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Chapel Court & Countryside: The Bach-Beethoven Connection [4.937% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Chapel Court & Countryside: The Bach-Beethoven Connection Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 123 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the “English Bach” John Christian Bach, and their influence on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, all in performances which attempt to approximate the sounds that audiences of the period might have experienced. Some listeners will prefer these performances, others will not; yet they all will find insights into how the majesty of Bach led to the magic of Mozart. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Sweet and Low [text by Alfred Tennyson] / Joseph Barnaby -- Trio Sonata on the Royal Theme, BWV 1079 [from “The Musical Offering”] (1747) / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Rondo in C Major, H. 260 (1774-80) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Symphonia No. 3 in C Major, H. 259 (1773) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- La D'Hericourt (1759) / Claude-Bénigne Balbastre -- Marche des marseil...

9. radiOM.org - Portrait of Composer Colin McPhee [4.004% Popularity: 0.00000]

Portrait of Composer Colin McPhee Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 18 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian introduces the life and music of Colin McPhee (1901-1964), with commentary by Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison. A classically trained pianist and composer, McPhee became prominent in the 1930's modern music movement in New York. His life and music changed direction when he discovered Balinese music in 1931. He moved to Bali and thoroughly studied the indigenous music. McPhee composed music incorporating Balinese themes. His book “Music in Bali”, is the definitive text on the subject. Listen to McPhee and Benjamin Britten performing "Tabuh Teluh," Balinese melodies transcribed for piano four-hands, and excerpts from the 1936 orchestral suite "Tabuh Tabuhan", and "Concerto for Piano and Wind Octet." Musical Selections: Tabuh Teluh [based on a traditional Indonesian melody] / Colin McPhee --Tabuh Tabuhan [excerpt] (1936) / Colin McPhee -- Concerto for Piano and Wind O...

10. radiOM.org - Edwin Flath Organ Concert, (Nov. 1974) [2.917% Popularity: 0.00000]

Edwin Flath Organ Concert, (Nov. 1974) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 89 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A concert presented in November of 1974 at the Calvary Church in San Francisco featuring organist Edwin Flath. Works heard include “Poeme Heroique,” for organ and brass ensemble by Marcel Dupré, “Prologue to Everyman for organ and cello by Ernst Bacon, “Canzona,” for organ and oboe by Henk Badings, “Parapraise,” for organ, reeds, brass, percussion, and hand bells by Donald Aird, “Partita,” for organ and English horn by Jan Koetsier, “Ekagrata,” for organ, percussion, and tape by Richard Felciano, and “Concerto,” for organ and percussion orchestra by Lou Harrison. Edwin Flath was a native of Canada, and studied at the Royal Conservatory at Toronto University and with Arthur Poster of Syracuse University before finally settling down in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he founded the California Bach Society in 1971. Mr. Flath died in 1987 at the age of 57. Musical Selections: Poeme He...