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1. radiOM.org - Morning Concert John Adams’ “Nixon in China” and an interview with Harvey Sollberger [5.581% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: John Adams’ “Nixon in China” and an interview with Harvey Sollberger Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 128 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA This program, recorded on March 10, 1988, begins with Charles Amirkhanian’s brief interview with composer Harvey Sollberger in which they discuss two of Sollberger’s works, “Persian Golf” and “Three or Four Things I Know About the Oboe.” The two are then joined by composer John Adams for a discussion about the state of New Music in the San Francisco Bay Area. The bulk of the program is then dedicated to John Adams’ blockbuster opera “Nixon in China.” This masterwork of contemporary opera was written in collaboration with director Peter Sellars and poet Alice Goodman, and at the time of this recording was just about to be released on compact disc. This recording of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s production (December, 1987, NY) features singers John Duykers and Carolann Page, among others. The opera tells the story of Pres...

2. radiOM.org - Capricorn's Collision [5.147% 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...

3. radiOM.org - Morning Concert An Interview with John Adams, Feb. 1990 [5.099% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: An Interview with John Adams, Feb. 1990 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 66 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program recorded in February 1990, Charles Amirkhanian talks with composer John Adams about his music, including his two orchestral works, “The Wound-Dresser” and “Fearful Symmetries.” The composer of the opera “Nixon in China” also delivers a progress report on his next opera, “The Death of Klinghoffer”, as well as discussing his affinity for working with small orchestras, and other sundry topics. Born in Worcester, Mass on February 15, 1947, Adams celebrated his 43rd birthday the week of this recorded broadcast. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Nixon in China: News Has a Kind of Mystery (1985-87) (6:34) -- The Wound-Dresser [text by Walt Whitman] (1988) (18:40) Performers: James Maddalena, baritone (Nixon ; Wound) Orchestra of St. Luke’s (Nixon ; Wound) Edo de Waart, conductor (Nixon) Sanford Sylvan, baritone (Wound) Naoko Tanaka, violin...

4. radiOM.org - Interview with Arthur Frick, candidate for Dictator of America (1972) [5.089% Popularity: 0.00000]

Interview with Arthur Frick, candidate for Dictator of America (1972) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 19 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Arthur Frick, a 20 year old artist whose American parents taught at the University of Beirut, Lebanon, campaigned to be elected Dictator of America in 1972. His platform stressed the need for artists to be involved in high governmental positions, so that they may bring creative solutions to the problems which beset politicians in the White House. Frick also holds strong views on the role of sex and sexuality in political and artistic life, as well as the role of the nose in this political campaign. To address the conflict in the Middle East, Frick envisions sending Disney robots to the Suez Canal, as well as creating a fiend park in every U.S. city. Here he talks with Charles Amirkhanian about his campaign. Subject: Frick, Arthur ; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 ; Art -- Political aspects ; C...

5. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Interview with Jacques Bekaert [5.089% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Interview with Jacques Bekaert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 86 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA The radical Belgian political reporter Jacques Bekaert, a star of that country’s free-swinging national radio program, “King Kong”, is surreptitiously a prolific and talented avant-garde composer. While in the States to cover the 1972 presidential race he talked with Charles Amirkhanian about his music in this informal interview. Bekaert gives his impressions of the Nixon presidential campaign and then introduces four of his pieces, including a work utilizing the election eve speech of American Independent presidential hopeful John Schmitz in a quadraphonic sound poem. Musical Selections: Henry David Thoreau Thinks That, Like Soil, Silence Is of Various Depths and Fertility (1972) -- Summer Music: Nos. 9, 10, & 11 (1970) -- A Summer Day at Stony Point (1968-69) -- John Schmitz Is the Message (1972) Performers: Mills Center Contemporary Players (Thoreau ; Summer...