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1. radiOM.org - A Concert by the New Music Ensemble (March 10, 1972) [5.982% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert by the New Music Ensemble (March 10, 1972) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 116 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) A concert mixing classical piano works and new music for instrumental ensemble, sponsored by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, and given on March 10, 1972 at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. The concert features works by Robert Erickson, Richard Felciano, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and Loren Rush, all performed by the Ensemble. Also included are piano works by Robert Schumann, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Franz Liszt, and Frédéric Chopin, performed by Robert Helps. Musical Selections: Pacific Sirens, for ensemble and tape (1969) (13:15) / Robert Erickson -- Illusions Perdues (”Lost Illusions”) (ca. 1859) (8:40) / Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- Libeslied (Widmung), Op. 51 No. 5 (1849) (3:40) / Robert Schumann [arr. for piano by Franz Liszt] -- Frühlingsnacht (”Night in Spring”), Op. 39 No. 12 (1840) (2:40) / Robert Schumann [a...

2. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity An Eclectic Mix of World, Word & Contemporary Classical Music [5.257% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: An Eclectic Mix of World, Word & Contemporary Classical Music Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From November 1992, Charles Amirkhanian introduces an elegant and eclectic mix of world, spoken word, and contemporary classical music. The program begins with the haunting vocals of Iranian-born Sussan Deyhim performing “Navai” a setting for Sufi poetry influenced by Persian classical and folk melodies. This is followed by an extended version of Glen Velez’s “White-Throated Sparrow” a work for percussion and bansuri flute. The next work is a collaboration between Gavin Bryars and Juan Muñoz in which the devious technique of dealing from the bottom of the deck is explained as the dulcet tones of a string quartet gently play in the background. Canadian-born sound poet Paul Dutton then shows just how many different sounds a human being can make without the aid of any instruments, in his thoroughly enjoyable “Beyond Doo-Wop or How I ...

3. radiOM.org - A Review of a Concert of Experimental Music from England [5.173% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Review of a Concert of Experimental Music from England Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 18 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian reviews a concert by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble of avant-garde or experimental music, by mostly young English composers, which was held on March 21, 1974 and was to be repeated the next day. Excerpts of works heard include an arrangement of an early 20th century waltz, a song based on a Chinese melody by Cornelius Cardew, and a rondo by Christopher Hobbs. Also heard are segments of two pieces by Gavin Bryars, one inspired by the story of the Titanic, and another by a film of a London tramp singing an old hymn. Both of Bryars’ pieces, which he introduced himself, were accompanied by visual projections of pictures or films and have a beautiful yet haunting quality to them. Much of this work is based on re-workings of Victorian waltz melodies and sentimental salon pieces. Most of the pieces are consonant, some e...

4. radiOM.org - New Music FM II: A Festival in Four Movements [5.160% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music FM II: A Festival in Four Movements Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 152 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KSJN From KSJN (St. Paul, Minnesota) host Melinda Ward, of the Walker Art Center, introduces interviews and music by composers that were featured during the 1980 New Music America Festival in St. Paul Minnesota. This includes lengthy excerpts from Robert Ashley’s opera “Perfect Lives (Private Parts) and Alvin Curran’s mixed media piece “Small Circles Great Plains”. Also included is a free improvisation with violinist Leroy Jenkins and saxophonist Oliver Lake, works for piano by William Duckworth and Michael Nyman, as well as works by Libby Larsen and Stacey Bowers. This was the second of four nationally broadcast programs, each emanating from one of the four previous host cities of the New Music America Festival, and was meant as a preview to the 1983 Festival which was held in Washington D. C. in October 1983. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Perfect Lives (Private...

5. radiOM.org - Evenings on the Roof Harry Partch Series No. 4 [4.985% Popularity: 0.00000]

Evenings on the Roof: Harry Partch Series No. 4 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 55 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFK After an introduction by Peter Yates, Harry Partch introduces himself, his 43-tone scale, and demonstrates his instruments. A number of Partch's pieces are then heard with a brief introduction to each. Towards the end of the program, Peter Yates reads from an article he wrote describing Partch's music, especially "Revelation in the Courthouse Park." This program was originally recorded in Sept. 1965. Musical Selections: [Examples of Partch's 43 note scale and his various instruments] -- [wordless piece marked "steady in an ancient Phrygian scale"] -- [wordless piece marked "steady in a Greek enharmonic scale"] -- The Rose [text by Ella Young] (1942) -- The Crane (1945) -- The Wind [texts by Ella Young & Lao-Tze] -- The Waterfall [text by Ella Young] (1946-50) -- The Letter -- The Street [text by Willard Motley] (1946-50) Genres: Microtonal Music ; Unconvention...

6. radiOM.org - Morning Concert A Visit With Frederic Rzewski [4.961% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: A Visit With Frederic Rzewski Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 55 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian and Russ Jennings are joined in the KPFA studio by Frederic Rzewski, an American composer and performer, who has spent much of his adult life living in Rome and Brussels. Rzewski was a founding member of the radical, electronic, music group, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), and the composer of a famous set of piano variations based on Sergio Ortega protest song “El Pueblo Undio Jamas Sera Vencido”. He is known for both his remarkable virtuosity as a performer, improviser and composer, as well as his committed involvement in leftist politics. How he resolves these in his work is a challenge which he has pursued with thoughtfulness and inventiveness of an uncommon sort. In this program he introduces a number of his pieces and talks about how his political views have influenced his work. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: The People United Wil...

7. radiOM.org - A Concert of Works by Robert Moran and Morton Feldman (August 31, 1968) [4.921% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert of Works by Robert Moran and Morton Feldman (August 31, 1968) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 21 mins Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Recorded at the De Young Museum in San Francisco on August 31, 1968, this program features two works by Robert Moran and Morton Feldman. The first piece heard is the world premiere of “Scream Kiss No. 1,”a theatrical work for harpsichord and pre-recorded tape by Robert Moran, and performed here by Margaret Fabrizio on the harpsichord. This work was used in a film realization by Paul Crowley, which also featured Ms. Fabrizio on screen, however it is uncertain whether the film was shown during this performance. This piece is followed by “Four Instruments” by Morton Feldman, a very quiet and meditative work of aleatoric music. The San Francisco Bay Area was a center of avant-garde contemporary classical music in the latter half of the 20th century and this recording captures some of that adventurous musical programing, and should be of interest to any ...

8. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 15: Concert 3 [4.887% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 15: Concert 3 View Item Type: Video Duration: 107 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The third and final concert of the 15th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 15) was held in San Francisco on March 6, 2010. Of all the three featured concerts of the 2010 Festival this may have been the most diverse. It began with the world premiere of Gyan Riley’s composition for jazz quartet, commissioned for this event by Other Minds. This is followed by two works by the long established minimalist composer Tom Johnson, who began his career as a music critic for the Village Voice before moving to Paris to pursue a full time career as a composer of works marked by their mathematical rigor and sonic complexity. The evening then concluded with another world premier, a nearly 40 minute romp through the early Industrial Revolution as interpreted by composer Carla Kihlstedt, who makes effective use of the often breathless accounts of various innovat...

9. radiOM.org - Do It by Robert Erickson [4.834% Popularity: 0.00000]

Do It by Robert Erickson Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 19 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Alan Rich A recording of “Do It,” a 1968 composition by Robert Erickson in which words and phrases are used in a fashion that is reminiscent of the complex polyrhythms of African drumming, and the chaos of political campaign rhetoric. According to the composer in the program notes of a 1987 performance of the piece: “’Do It’ grew out of the sounds of the 1968 presidential campaign, the speeches of General MacArthur, television, radio and magazine advertising of that period, and a poem by Donald Peterson which I had known since 1966. I wanted to transform these rhetorics into musical experience, and everything about the compositional strategy reflects this aim. Not all of the words are meant to be understood; many aspects of language have been deliberately distorted or re-formed in order to bare the emotion the overt semantic content.” Robert Erickson, was a noted author and educator, whose students in...

10. radiOM.org - A Concert of Experimental Music from England [4.744% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert of Experimental Music from England Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 102 mins Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA On March 21, 1974 the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble under the direction of John Adams performed a concert of avant-garde and experimental music, by mostly young English composers. Works heard include an arrangement of an early 20th century waltz, a song based on a Chinese melody by Cornelius Cardew, and a rondo by Christopher Hobbs. Also heard are two pieces by Gavin Bryars, one inspired by the story of the Titanic, and another by a film of a London tramp singing an old hymn. Both of Bryars’ pieces, which he introduced himself, were accompanied by visual projections of pictures or films and have a beautiful yet haunting quality to them. Much of this work is based on reworkings of Victorian waltz melodies and sentimental salon pieces. Most of the pieces are consonant, some even very emotional. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: The Eden Valley Waltz (ca. 1900) (...