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1. radiOM.org - Sonata, for cello and piano by Tibor Harsányi [5.083% Popularity: 0.00000]

Sonata, for cello and piano by Tibor Harsányi Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 18 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA An early recording of Tibor Harsányi’s 1928 “Sonata” for cello and piano, performed by Hans Kindler on cello and the composer on piano. A French composer of Hungarian birth, Harsányi studied with both Bartók and Kodály, and toured extensively as a concert pianist before finally settling down in the Netherlands and then Paris in 1924. Although Harsányi early works were influenced by the same desire to explore native Hungarian folk songs like his mentor Bartók, he later developed his own harmonic language, embracing both dissonant chromatic as well as diatonic styles of writing. He was even known to incorporate influences from American jazz music. However this work is more traditional and austere than many of his compositions. Musical Selections: Sonata, for cello and piano (1928) (17:41) / Tibor Harsányi Performers: Hans Kindler, violoncello Tibor Harsányi, piano Genres: 20th ...

2. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 17: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 [5.045% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 17: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 134 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The third and final concert of the 17th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 17) began with a panel discussion with some of the composers and performers featured in the night’s concert, held on March 3 2012. Joining moderator Charles Amirkhanian were composers Tyshawn Sorey, Lotta Wennäkoski, John Kennedy and Ken Ueno, as well as video artist Johnny Dekam. Tyshawn Sorey talks about his very early interest in becoming a musician and how his style of playing has been influenced by his exposure, through his parents large record collection, to a wide variety of musical genres and world music traditions. He also discusses his extensive use of various objects as percussion instruments. Lotta Wennäkoski talks about her work “Nosztalgiaim,” which was to be the opening work of the concert, and which was i...

3. radiOM.org - American Mavericks My Lunch with Mel Powell: An American Musical Feast [5.029% 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...

4. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Soul of Armenia: Folk Music Rarities of Komitas Vardapet [0.496% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Soul of Armenia: Folk Music Rarities of Komitas Vardapet Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 102 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA This program introduces some of the earliest and rarest recordings of Armenian folk music, soulful interpretations by performers who recorded during the 78 rpm era. Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935) was the first to document such works by recording the oral tradition of Armenian music. By 1912, he had recorded his own arrangements of these Armenian folk songs, (in the same way Bartok did for Hungarian music), with the legendary "Caruso of the Armenians," Armenak Shahmuradian. The latter traveled around the world from India to Fresno, California, performing this music, and his vocal legacy is unparalleled, as witnessed by these recordings from 1912 and 1916. The range, or tessitura, of most Armenian music is relentlessly stratospheric, in spite of which, Shahmuradian's breath control, declamation and ornamentation is of the highest order o...