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1. radiOM.org - New Music America 1981: Charles Amirkhanian Interviews Music Critics John Rockwell & Charles Shere [6.868% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1981: Charles Amirkhanian Interviews Music Critics John Rockwell & Charles Shere Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 21 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian engages former KPFA music programers and current music critics, John Rockwell and Charles Shere, in a fascinating discussion about the state of New Music and the New Music America Festivals. The difference between academic avant-garde music concerts and the more adventurous programing of multi-media works, new wave rock bands, and sound installations featured at the New Music America Festivals, is fully explored. The appropriate size of such events and the correct role of the music critic in promoting or reviewing such concerts is also touched upon in this, at time contentious, but always cordial, discussion. Genres: New Music ; Avant-Garde Subject: New Music America (Festival) ; New music ; Avant-garde (Music) ; Music festivals ; Music critics People: Amirkhan...

2. radiOM.org - New Music America 1981: A Concert of New Gamelan Music [6.844% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1981: A Concert of New Gamelan Music Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 68 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) From a recording made on June 13, 1981 in San Francisco, as part of the New Music America Festival, this is a concert of new gamelan music by Lou Harrison, K. R. T. Wasitodipuro, and others. Lou Harrison’s music is known for its original and sensitive use of percussion and employment of just intonation. It also is widely appreciated for its lyricism and assimilation of techniques from East and West, as is clearly evident in the pieces heard here that incorporate Western instruments such as the harp, flute and trumpet with the traditional gamelan. These works are performed on two sets of gamelan instruments designed and largely built by William Colvig. They are the Gamelan Si Betty, named for Betty Freeman who made possible its construction, and Gamelan Si Darius, named after composer Darius Milhaud. The clarity of the sound and...

3. radiOM.org - New Music America New Sounds USA, Program No. 5, 1983 [6.844% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: New Sounds USA, Program No. 5, 1983 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: NPR / WNYC Hosts Alan Rich and Nancy Shear present highlights from the 1983 New Music America Festival, held in Washington D.C., as well as a couple of other recordings of works by composers featured at NMA. The program begins with a performance of Steve Reich’s “Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ,” recorded on May 8, 1982, as part of the 4th Annual New Sounds San Jose Festival. The performers for this piece, which is scored for voice, percussion, and electric organ, included Steve Reich and an assortment of San Jose State University students. Rich and Shear then take us live to NMA ‘83 for an excerpt of a performance by graffiti and rap music artists Ramm-ell-zee and Toxic. The program then concludes with another work of repetitive, or minimal, music that also incorporates voice with instrumental ensemble, John Adams’ “Grand Pianola Music.” Like the Reich pi...

4. radiOM.org - New Music America 1981: Overlapping Lines and Curves by Nancy Karp [6.826% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1981: Overlapping Lines and Curves by Nancy Karp Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 23 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The fourth Act of the June 11th concert of the 1981 New Music America Festival was a dance piece by Nancy Karp. Conceived as a site specific work for the Rotunda of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art it was performed by 10 dancers, with choreography and music by Nancy Karp with additional audio production work by Bill Fontana. The score for the dance features some rather sparse yet quite pretty piano music. On listening to it one can easily imagine the 10 dancers slowly twirling and moving in the entwined patterns invoked by the pieces title. Musical Selections: Overlapping Lines and Curves (1981) (20:08) / Nancy Karp Genres: New Music ; Performance Art Subject: New music ; Modern dance music ; Piano music People: Karp, Nancy Recording Date: 6/11/1981 First Broadcast Date: 6/11/1981 Listen...

5. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Han Reiziger on New Music America ‘81 [6.823% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Han Reiziger on New Music America ‘81 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 31 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian is joined in the KPFA studio by Han Reiziger to discuss their impressions of the, then recently concluded, New Music America ‘81 Festival, that was held in San Francisco during the first two weeks of June in 1981. Reiziger, a radio programmer for Dutch Radio’s VPRO, and a guest host on KPFA during the mid-1970s, begins by describing some of the more recent projects he has been a part of in the Netherlands, including a series of events popularizing the music of Georg Benda. However the majority of the program is dedicated to a discussion of Reiziger’s favorite works featured during the New Music America Festival, including compositions by Julius Eastman, Robert Erickson, and Laurie Anderson, among others. Brief excerpts from a few of these performances are also heard. Musical Selections: The Holy Presence ...

6. radiOM.org - New Music America 1990: Montreal Musique Actuelles [6.823% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1990: Montreal Musique Actuelles Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 138 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: C Amirkhanian Charles Amirkhanian reports on happenings of the 1990 installment of the peripatetic New Music America Festival, which began in 1979 and was held this year for the first time outside the U.S. Montreal Musique Actuelles highlighted the work of Canadian composers, performers and improvisers alongside the work of such well-known Americans as La Monte Young, Scott Johnson, and Alvin Curran. Among participants interviewed are Jean Piche, a composer who directed the Festival and whose own work for percussion and tape was a highlight. Also heard are the voices of Montreal composer Linda Bouchard who lives in New York and is active as a composer and conductor; Jan Wolff, artistic director of Icebreaker, an internationally acclaimed center for avant-garde music in Amsterdam; electro-acoustic music specialist Hildegard Westerkamp of Vancouver; Shannon Peet...

7. radiOM.org - New Music America 1982, Program No. 1 [6.810% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1982, Program No. 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 169 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: WFMT Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the first of six broadcasts from Navy Pier, as part of the fourth New Music America Festival. Charles Amirkhanian hosts, assisted by composer and vocalist, Joan La Barbara. The concert includes electronic music by Tom Cameron, Robert Moran’s “Spin Again” for harpsichords, organs, and percussion, “Autumn Resonance” for piano and delay by Wayne Siegel, and to conclude, Meredith Monk’s work for four voices and organs, “Turtle Dreams.” Also heard, although unfortunately not seen, is a work of avant-garde musical theater by the performing duo of Ed Harkins and Philip Larson known as THE. This work combines strictly choreographed movements by the two, often involving sight gags of one type or another, mixed with electronic and new wave rock music. The intermission features includes a profile of Charles Ives, a talk with John Cage about...

8. radiOM.org - New Music America 1981: The True and False Occult [6.809% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1981: The True and False Occult Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 28 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The first Act of the June 12th concert of the 1981 New Music America Festival was a multi-media dance piece by choreographer Margaret Fisher with music by Robert Hughes. Entitled “The True and False Occult” this work involved three dancers, image projection, and music by Robert Hughes with additional music provided by the Azuma Kabuki Musicians. The New York Times (8/16/81) describes the piece as: “set to a suite that begins with coolly percussive music by the Azuma Kabuki Musicians and ends with atmospheric flute and cello music and an electronic sequencer study by Robert Hughes, Miss Fisher's collaborator. The dance, newly revised for solo performance, spreads out across the entire performance space with rectangular panels used for projections of words, the letter sequence ''abracadabra'' and mysterious line drawings of figures, one of which Miss Fisher suddenly inhabi...

9. radiOM.org - New Music America 1981: A Concert by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan [6.807% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1981: A Concert by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 46 mins Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) A live broadcast from the 1981 New Music America Festival, held at the Japan Center Theater in San Francisco, California, featuring a recital by the renowned sarod player, and founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. As with any North Indian classical concert, the music played depended on the time of day as well as the mood and inspiration of the artist. Therefore, the raga and tala of this concert was chosen accordingly, to match the mood of the evening, and was decided upon just prior to the performance. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [part one of an evening raga] (27:50) Performers: Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, sarod Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla Mary Johnson, tamboura Genre: World Music Subject: World music ; Music -- India ; Ragas ; Hindustani music ; Trios (Sarod, tabla, tambura) People:...

10. radiOM.org - New Music FM II: A Festival in Four Movements [6.800% 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...