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1. radiOM.org - A Concert by the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic [2.532% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert by the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 78 min Event Type: Music A recording of a concert given by the Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic featuring three works by women composers, Ethel Smyth, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and Diane Thome, as well as one work Paul Hindemith. Recorded at the First Congregational Church in San Francisco on October 21, 1989. Founded in 1981 by Miriam Abrams, Elizabeth Seja Min and Nan Washburn, the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic, (later known as The Women's Philharmonic ), specialized in performing music by woman composers. Before its official disbandment in 2004 the orchestra premiered over 130 compositions, many of which it had commissioned. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Overture to Les Naufrageurs (“The Wreckers”) (1902-04) (10:00) / Ethel Smyth -- Concerto Romantico, for viola (1957) (23:30) / Peggy Glanville-Hicks -- The Golden Messengers: In 8 short movements (1985) (15:00) / Diane Thome Performers: Bay Area Woman’s Philharmonic JoA...

2. radiOM.org - A Concert by the Oakland Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra, (Dec. 13, 1964) [2.533% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert by the Oakland Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra, (Dec. 13, 1964) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 63 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A concert by the Oakland Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra given on Dec. 13, 1964. This remarkable group of musicians, mostly high-school age, is heard in a program of 18th and 20th century music, conducted by Robert Hughes and featuring soprano, Carole Bogard. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Concerto No. 5 in A Major, for string orchestra (7:30) / Francesco Durante -- Les Quatre Elements, for orchestra and soprano, Op. 189 [text by Robert Desnos] (1938) (7:05) / Darius Milhaud -- Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165 (1773) (14:00) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performers: Oakland Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra Robert Hughes, conductor Carole Bogard, soprano (Les Quatre ; Exsultate) Genres: Classical Music ; Orchestral Music Subject: 18th century classical ; 20th century classical ; Orchestral music ; Concertos (String orchestra) ; String orchestra music ; S...

3. radiOM.org - A Concert by the Oakland Youth Chamber Orchestra, March 27, 1966 [0.640% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert by the Oakland Youth Chamber Orchestra, March 27, 1966 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 82 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The Oakland Youth Chamber Orchestra in a concert recorded on March 27, 1966. The orchestra was composed of San Francisco Easy Bay High School students, and was conducted by Robert Hughes. The Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra built for itself a rather impressive reputation during the 1960s, and served as a launching pad for the careers of a number of professional concert musicians, including several heard here. This concert included a selection of classical and contemporary compositions by Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Mozart, Aaron Copland, Lou Harrison, and Alberto Ginastera, and provided plenty of opportunities to showcase the talent and versatility of this group of young musicians. Part 1 of 4: Musical Selections: Overture to Ruy Blas, Op. 95, for orchestra (1839) (8:13) / Felix Mendelssohn -- Per Questa Bella Mano, K. 612, for voice and orchestra (1791) (...

4. radiOM.org - A Concert by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, (April 2, 1971) [0.732% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, (April 2, 1971) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 20 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A recording of a concert given by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble on April 2. 1971. The concert features “Four Systems” an aleatoric work by Earle Brown, “Concert for Piano and Orchestra” by John Cage, and the U. S. premiere of Arne Mellnäs’ “Capricorn Flakes’” a quartet for harpsichord, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone. The ensemble, featuring students and other musicians connected to the Conservatory, is directed by Howard Hersh. Musical Selections: Four Systems (1954) (6:31) / Earle Brown -- Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58) (4:05) / John Cage -- Capricorn Flakes (1970) (7:30) / Arne Mellnäs Performers: New Music Ensemble of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Howard Hersh, conductor Genre: New Music Subject: New music ; Aleatory music ; Concertos (Piano) ; Quartets (Harpsichord, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone...

5. radiOM.org - A Concert of Contemporary Avant-Garde Music [2.279% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert of Contemporary Avant-Garde Music Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 69 mins Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Selections from a concert of contemporary avant-garde music probably dating back to 1968 or thereabouts. This concert was most likely organized by pianist and composer Robert Moran, who was very active in the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s performing and producing concerts of experimental music, and most of the compositions included were aleatoric in nature. The first selection heard is Moran’s own “Interiors,” scored for an unspecified number of players, and performed here by a brass ensemble of San Jose State University. This is followed by Sylvano Bussotti’s “Sensitivo,” performed by a trio of musicians utilizing a variety of Oriental instruments, including bells, flute, and stringed instruments. “Credentials,” a avant-garde theatrical piece for actor and eight instruments is heard next, with Moran’s tortured monologue being accompanied by an unspecified instr...

6. radiOM.org - A Life in Music: Elliott Carter [0.857% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Life in Music: Elliott Carter Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 116 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA This program provides an overview of Elliott Carter's compositions from 1942 to 1978. It includes excerpts from several of his works, including the “Symphony No. 1” (1942), “Piano Sonata” (1945-6), “Cello Sonata” (1948), and “Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano” (1961). Importantly, the program also includes recordings of complete performances of the “Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord” (1952) with an informative analysis by David Schiff (Carter's biographer). In addition, the “String Quartet No. 2” (1959), “Symphony of Three Orchestras”, and “Syringa for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone and Chamber Orchestra” are presented. Elliott Carter and David Schiff are interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian. This program was produced, written, edited and hosted by Steve Robinson. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Symphony No. 1 [excerpt] (1942) -- Piano Sonata [excerpt] (1945-6) -- Sonata...

7. radiOM.org - American Mavericks My Lunch with Mel Powell: An American Musical Feast [0.863% Popularity: 0.00000]

American Mavericks: My Lunch with Mel Powell: An American Musical Feast Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KUSC Mel Powell could probably never have been anything but an American. He was a marvelous talker, a consummate raconteur with a sonorous storyteller's voice to make the tales more mesmerizing. He grew up in a building that overlooked Yankee Stadium. He even gave up baseball to save his thumbs for the piano. He played jazz, very well but very briefly. It’s been said that no jazz musician of comparable stature has ever had such a short career as Powell, because, in a very American way, he became weary of playing the same tune night after night with the Benny Goodman Band. First he tried Hollywood, and spent some time composing for MGM movies. Then he made a major change: he shipped himself off to Yale to study with Paul Hindemith. With this act, he not only started a new career as a classical composer, but also became an educator: one so dedicated t...

8. radiOM.org - Astor Piazzolla: Tango Assassin [0.354% Popularity: 0.00000]

Astor Piazzolla: Tango Assassin Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 117 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program recorded in 1989, Charles Amirkhanian interviews two Bay Area musicians who are very familiar with the work of the remarkable composer and bandoneon player, Astor Piazzolla. Marta Bracchi-LeRoux, is a pianist, and native of Montevideo, Uruguay, one of the birthplaces of the tango, and where she was acquainted as a young musician with Piazzolla and his work, even before he began to compose his nuevo tangos. She and her husband, the French conductor and oboe player, Jean-Louis LeRoux, are now known for founding the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and for their tireless promotion of avant-garde composers. But in the early 1950s, they participated in the world premiere of Piazzolla’s “Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra” in Montevideo where Piazzolla and other Buenos Aires residents frequently traveled for performances as well as occasional vacations. Marta and Jean-L...

9. radiOM.org - Difference Tone A Cristal Concert [2.531% Popularity: 0.00000]

Difference Tone: A Cristal Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 62 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA A program dedicated to the marvelous glass instrument, the Cristal, invented by the Baschet brothers of Paris in 1956. Consisting of glass rods, the Cristal is played by rubbing the rods with wet fingers, the way one would a wine glass, the vibrations of which are then acoustically amplified through a series of metallic resonators Host Charles Amirkhanian is joined in the KPFA studios by David James, Jerry Kuderna, Peter Josheff and Annie Hallett, who play a number of pieces live, as well as listen to some previously recorded works. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Adagio In C Major, K. 617a (1791) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Petite Impression (1982) / Fred Schnaubelt -- Lolie / Michel Deneuve -- Caprice / Fred Schnaubelt -- Concerto for Cristal Four Hands and Orchestra: Processional [1st movement] (1992) / Kile Smith -- [demonstration of the cristal’s range of sound...

10. radiOM.org - Edwin Flath Organ Concert, (Nov. 1974) [1.079% 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...