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1. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Guitarissimo, Part One: Solo Guitar Music [5.082% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Guitarissimo, Part One: Solo Guitar Music Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 127 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program originally recorded on September 1, 1992, guitar virtuoso David Tanenbaum joins Charles Amirkhanian for a presentation of contemporary solo guitar music, much of which extends the language of the instrument. Tanenbaum briefly discusses his own career and current projects before dipping into his extensive private collection of guitar music. Works heard include Robert Sierra’s “Toccata y Lamento,” Tristan Murail’s “Tellur,” and a rare recordings of “Ko-tha: Three Dances of Shiva” by Giacinto Scelsi, all performed by a variety of young, up and coming guitarists. The program continues with the Serbian guitarist Dušan Bogdanović performing his own “Introduction & Passacaglia for the Golden Flower,” Seth Josel’s recording of the lengthy work “Arien IV” by Sidney Corbett, and R. Murray Schafer’s “Le Cri de Merlin” a work in six movements,...

2. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 9, Concert 3: 02 “Sarajevo” & “Three Sentimental Songs” by Jack Body [5.079% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 9, Concert 3: 02 “Sarajevo” & “Three Sentimental Songs” by Jack Body Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 24 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds “Sarajevo” was written at the invitation of the New Zealand pianist Michael Houstoun, who premiered it at the 1996 International Festival of Arts in Wellington. “Sarajevo” is a reflection on the horrors and futility of the Bosnian war and was partly inspired by my seeing Emir Kausturica's film “Underground”. The film exposes the war's cruel manipulation of ethnic, religious and nationalistic sentiments. The first movement, called "Remembering...imperfectly," is based on the idea of "selective memory," how the past is often recollected selectively to suit one's present imperatives. I have created a quasi-folksong (played with the right hand thumb) with a kind of plucked instrument accompaniment. The melody recycles round and round, always in fragmentary form, each time with different sections "erased." Flourishes and ppp s...

3. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 [4.984% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 126 min Event Type: Lecture and Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The 16th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 16) began with a panel discussion with some of the composers featured in the first night’s concert, held on March 3, 2011. Joining moderator Charles Amirkhanian on stage were Kyle Gann, Louis Andriessen, Agata Zubel, and Janice Giteck. Gann briefly discusses “Triskaidekaphonia I” which is the result of Gann’s desire to finally incorporate the musical equivalent of the number 13 into a composition, something he achieves with the introduction of a pure 13th harmonic at the beginning of this piece. His other featured work, “Kierkegaard, Walking,” was inspired by a European walking tour and an early interest in the Danish philosopher. Polish composer Agata Zubel discusses her decision to take up a second career as a classical concert singer, while also ...