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1. radiOM.org - Last 10 minutes of KPFA at its longtime offices at 2207 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley [6.076% Popularity: 0.00000]

Last 10 minutes of KPFA at its longtime offices at 2207 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 10 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) These are the last 10 minutes broadcast from the KPFA studios at 2207 Shattuck Avenue, as the hosts of the Probabilities program describe their historical yet decaying surroundings and their hopes for the new KPFA building. Subject: Seuss, Dr. ; Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991 ; KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.) People: Wolinsky, Robert ; Lupoff, Richard A., 1935- ; Welch, Kris ; Smithson, Denny Recording Date: 9/26/1991 First Broadcast Date: 9/26/1991 Listen...

2. radiOM.org - KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 3: KPFA Miscellany [5.617% Popularity: 0.00000]

KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 3: KPFA Miscellany Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 57 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) In another segment from KPFA’s all day broadcast celebrating its 40th anniversary, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a program of unusual “airchecks” (recordings made during a live broadcast), saved by KPFA producers during strategic moments. You will thrill to the sounds of Bill Schechner, who later went on to a career with NBC News, reading headlines from the wire services on April 1, 1978, complete with impertinent asides; Kris Welch in a confrontational interview with Wayne Dyer, author of “Your Erroneous Zones” on July 29, 1976; Shafi Hakim playing music on Thanksgiving Day, 1977; the inaugural program of Sue Donati’s sex show, “Not Tonight I Have a Headache” on December 2, 1977; San Francisco artist Doug Kahn’s radio collage, “The Alienatisch”, starring Bill Sokol; an excerpt from the 1984 “Vox Pop Verite” progra...

3. radiOM.org - KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 5: Listener Call-ins [5.593% Popularity: 0.00000]

KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 5: Listener Call-ins Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 179 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The special all day broadcast celebrating the 40th anniversary of KPFA concludes with a three hour listener call-in segment, hosted by Charles Amirkhanian, who is joined by KPFA General Manager, Pat Scoot, and Pacifica Foundation Executive Director, David Salniker, and others. Caller comments range from glowing reviews of the station’s programing to sharp criticisms of the same. As always with KPFA, the listening audience is well informed and not at all shy about letting the station know what they think, be it cheering or complaining about all the weird music they hear, advocating for more children oriented programing, debating Pacifica’s editorial stances or perceived biases, or simply wishing the station a hearty Happy Birthday. Many of the comments are perennial staples at KPFA or indeed any listener sponsored radio s...

4. radiOM.org - KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 4: Elsa Knight Thompson & G. I. Gurdjieff [5.582% Popularity: 0.00000]

KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 4: Elsa Knight Thompson & G. I. Gurdjieff Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 63 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The all-day special broadcast celebrating KPFA’s 40th anniversary continues with a documentary about Elsa Knight Thompson. Throughout the 1960’s, KPFA Public Affairs Director Elsa Knight Thompson was an extraordinary and controversial programmer. Her experience with the BBC in London during World War II and in Washington D. C. at WCFM prepared her for a scintillating career as a radio journalist at KPFA, and her direct and incisive interviews of both left and right-wing figures were legendary. In this segment, Nancy Delaney presents a short overview of Thompson’s work, complete with recorded examples. Afterwards the minutes leading up to the exact time that KPFA first went on the air 40 years before are filled with the sound of the late philosopher Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff playing his melo...

5. radiOM.org - Tuesday Morning Club An Hour in the KPFA Music Department Office, 1970 [5.577% Popularity: 0.00000]

Tuesday Morning Club: An Hour in the KPFA Music Department Office, 1970 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 67 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian fills in for the absent Julian White for this edition of KPFA’s Tuesday Morning Club. Rather than playing a selection of elegant classical music, Amirkhanian takes this opportunity to give listeners a feel for what the Music Department Office was like during a typical day in 1970. Fielding phone calls from Liam O’Gallagher, moving boxes, answering questions for staff and volunteers, it's all here in this fascinating peek behind the KPFA curtain. Also included are musical works by Colin McPhee, a Canadian composer who became one of the first Western ethnomusicologist to study the gamelan music of Bali, and his fellow ultra-modern composer and publisher, Henry Cowell. Musical Selections: Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestra (1936) (17:07) / Colin McPhee -- Fiddler’s Jig, for violin and st...

6. radiOM.org - KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 2: Erik Bauersfeld and a Dramatic Quarter Century [5.575% Popularity: 0.00000]

KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 2: Erik Bauersfeld and a Dramatic Quarter Century Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 130 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The all day festivities celebrating KPFA’s 40th anniversary continues with a brief excerpt form the 10th anniversary program in which long time KPFA Public Affairs Director Elsa Knight Thompson ruminates on the groundbreaking political programing that was then, and is still today, a hallmark of the Pacifica stations. However the majority of this second segment of the 40th Anniversary Show is devoted to an interview with KPFA’s “Hero of the Hörspiel,” long time Drama and Literature Department Director, Erik Bauersfeld, whose productions of radio drama were legendary among KPFA listeners, and who is known to moviegoers worldwide for his roles as Admiral Akbar and Bib Fortuna in George Lucas’ Star Wars films. Bauersfeld, who become co-director of the Drama & Literature Department in 1963, and cont...

7. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Charles Amirkhanian's Last Morning Concert as KPFA Music Director [5.570% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Charles Amirkhanian's Last Morning Concert as KPFA Music Director Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 122 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The last Morning Concert with Charles Amirkhanian at the helm kicks off with an interview with David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet. This interview was recorded just prior to a concert by the Quartet at the Theater Artaud that was to feature new compositions by Mr. Bungle and Thomas Mapfumo written for the Kronos Quartet. The various roles individual players have within the Quartet is described. The second half of the program is dedicated to taking phone calls from listeners reminiscing with Charles about his time at the station. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [excerpt from the CD "Facing North"] (1990) / Meredith Monk -- Carousel (1991) / Mr. Bungle -- [unidentified piece] / Thomas Mapfumo -- Slowly Growing Deaf (1991) / Mr. Bungle -- Viola Concerto [1st movement] (1985) / Alfred Schnittke -...

8. radiOM.org - A Celebration of Non-Commercial Radio [5.567% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Celebration of Non-Commercial Radio Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 182 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) This live broadcast from the then, brand new, KPFA building at 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Berkeley, California, aired nationally on NPR. It features the world premiere of Lou Harrison’s “Homage to Pacifica” (commissioned by the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation), a six movement composition for narrator, soloists, mixed chorus, and Javanese gamelan ensemble. Also heard is a rare recording made in 1949, just after KPFA went on the air, in which Henry Cowell performed a number of his works on the KPFA grand piano. This program continues with Berkeley composer Gary Noland’s spectacular ragtime composition, “Grand Rag Brillante”, which is virtually impossible to be played by humans. Here it is heard played on KPFA’s Yamaha Disklavier, a type of modern player piano. The program concludes with the great, North Indian, virtuosi...

9. radiOM.org - Pacifica is 25 [5.120% Popularity: 0.00000]

Pacifica is 25 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 84 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The first quarter century of Pacifica Radio and KPFA is documented in this program produced by Larry Josephson, longtime staff member of WBAI in New York, and erstwhile producer of KPFA’s the Morning Show. Interviews with many personalities dating from KPFA’s earliest years are heard, including Joy Hill, widow of the station's founder Lewis Hill. Also included are reminiscences, evaluations, and perspectives of the people who made the station a voice for social, cultural, and artistic change. For an intimate profile of America’s first listener sponsored station, 1949-70, here is one dedicated producer’s perspective. Genres: Current Events ; Poetry Subject: Hill, Lewis, d. 1957 ; KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.) ; Pacifica Radio ; Politics and culture ; Poetry ; Radio stations People: Josephson, Larry ; Hill, Lewis, d. 1957 ; McKinney, Eleanor ; Meece, Edw...

10. radiOM.org - Capricorn's Collision [5.114% Popularity: 0.00000]

Capricorn's Collision Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 82 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA An excellent example of KPFA's experimental, free-form, late night, radio programing. Robert Moran and Howard Hersh serve up an eclectic mix of poetry, music, humor, political commentary, and inspirational musings. With the growing protests against the Vietnam War as the backdrop, this program includes such characters as General Wastemoreland, General HersheyBar (plain chocolate, the nuts are in Washington), General Nuisance, General Eclectic, Captain Technology, and other luminaries. At one point a call is placed to rival station KSAN to gather support for KPFA'S protest petitions. Warning: this program contains obscenities Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [unidentified poem] -- Elsa [a poem] -- [unidentified soundtrack music and spoken word fragments] -- [excerpts of speech on peace negotiations by President Richard Nixon mixed with an audio montage of combat sounds, etc...] -- I Love My Dog...