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1. radiOM.org - Imaginary Landscape Lou Harrison: 40 Years of Music - A 60th Birthday Tribute [5.245% Popularity: 0.00000]

Imaginary Landscape: Lou Harrison: 40 Years of Music - A 60th Birthday Tribute Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 115 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFK Additional Media Files (click to view) On May 14, 1977 Lou Harrison celebrated his 60th birthday. Composers, musicians, music lovers, and friends paid tribute at St. John’s Church in Berkeley CA. The concert was produced by Paul Dresher, Peter Garland and Rae Imamura. The performers included the Repercussion Unit from the California Institute of the Arts, The East Bay New Music Ensemble directed by Robert Hughes, and the Berkeley Gamelan. Carl Stone and Leni Isaacs from KPFK play selections of Lou Harrison’s work. The pieces heard are “Song of Quetzalcoatl”, “Double Music”, “Suite for Cello and Harp”, “Happy Birthday”, “Canticle No. 1”, “Fugue”, “In Praise of Johnny Appleseed”, “Cinna”, and “Schoenbergiana”. Musical Selections: Song of Quetzalcoatl (1941) / Lou Harrison -- Double Music (1941) / Lou Harrison & John Cage -- Suite for Cello & Ha...

2. radiOM.org - The Flowing Stream Ensemble at Hertz Hall, 1977 [5.209% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Flowing Stream Ensemble at Hertz Hall, 1977 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 44 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A live broadcast of a concert of traditional Chinese music performed by the Flowing Stream Ensemble, given at Hertz Hall on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley on March 9, 1977. Ensemble director and performer, Betty Wong, introduces the pieces and provides some background information about the music and the instruments used to perform it. Musical Selections: [numerous examples of traditional Chinese music] Performers: Flowing Stream Ensemble: Betty Wong Mark Izu Rae Imamura Leo Lew and others Genre: World Music Subject: World music ; Ethnic music ; Music--China ; Folk music--China People: Wong, Betty ; Lew, Leo ; Izu, Mark ; Imamura, Rae Recording Date: 3/9/1977 First Broadcast Date: 3/9/1977 Listen...

3. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4, Concert 3: 02 “Patterns of Plants-The 7th Collection” by Mamoru Fujieda [5.188% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4, Concert 3: 02 “Patterns of Plants-The 7th Collection” by Mamoru Fujieda Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 15 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Mamoru Fujieda is internationally recognized as one of music's outstanding younger composers. Working with artists such as John Zorn, Yuji Takahashi, and Malcolm Goldstein, he composes music that emerges from his fascination with the essentially collaborative formation of music. Fujieda has developed methods of composition that depart from the minimalist tradition, charting a new terrain that liberates music from subjectivity by immersing it in a network of relationships. Among his numerous methods, he has pioneered a new structure of composition that he calls "parasitic," since it consists of grafting new material onto a "rhizome" of original melody borrowed from sources such as Bach, Gregorian chant, or medieval secular music. In the composition of the series “Patterns of Plants”, a system called "PLANTRON" was us...

4. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4, Concert 3: 03 “Patterns of Plants-The 5th Collection” by Mamoru Fujieda [5.188% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4, Concert 3: 03 “Patterns of Plants-The 5th Collection” by Mamoru Fujieda Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 11 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Mamoru Fujieda is internationally recognized as one of music's outstanding younger composers. Working with artists such as John Zorn, Yuji Takahashi, and Malcolm Goldstein, he composes music that emerges from his fascination with the essentially collaborative formation of music. Fujieda has developed methods of composition that depart from the minimalist tradition, charting a new terrain that liberates music from subjectivity by immersing it in a network of relationships. Among his numerous methods, he has pioneered a new structure of composition that he calls "parasitic," since it consists of grafting new material onto a "rhizome" of original melody borrowed from sources such as Bach, Gregorian chant, or medieval secular music. In the composition of the series “Patterns of Plants”, a system called "PLANTRON" was us...