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1. radiOM.org - A Concert of Atonal Music by Josef Matthias Hauer [4.262% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert of Atonal Music by Josef Matthias Hauer Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 29 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From a concert recorded in 1974, Joseph Kubera and Julie Steinberg perform pieces for piano, written by the Austrian composer and musical theorist, Josef Matthias Hauer. After playing several unidentified works for solo piano, Kubera is joined by Steinberg in order to perform works for piano four hands. Hauer, a seminal figure in Austrian music, and the inspiration for a number of characters in novels by authors such as Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse, is perhaps most famous for developing a style of composing utilizing all 12 notes in the chromatic scale, independent of and years before Arnold Schoenberg. Many of his works share the same name of "Zwölftonspiel" (twelve-tone game), or “Zwölftonmusik" (twelve-tone music), two of which are featured in this concert. Musical Selections: [unidentified piano solo] -- [unidentified piano solo] -- [unidentified piano solo] -- Zwölf...

2. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2007: Concert No. 2, The Immovable Do [4.090% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music Seance: 2007: Concert No. 2, The Immovable Do Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 54 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2007 New Music Seance Concerts featured five hours of hypnotic solo piano music performed by Sarah Cahill, or on the eerily disembodied Yamaha Disklavier, with additional spirit raising interludes by the Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmerman violin-piano duo. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco. The second concert entitled “The Immovable Do”, includes the title piece by Percy Grainger, as well as works by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Frank Martin, Evan Ziporyn, David Mahler, Carl Stone, and James Cleghorn. For a complete description of all the pieces heard please download the Program Guide which can be found at http://www.othermind...

3. radiOM.org - Portrait of Composer Colin McPhee [3.888% Popularity: 0.00000]

Portrait of Composer Colin McPhee Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 18 min Event Type: Documentary Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian introduces the life and music of Colin McPhee (1901-1964), with commentary by Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison. A classically trained pianist and composer, McPhee became prominent in the 1930's modern music movement in New York. His life and music changed direction when he discovered Balinese music in 1931. He moved to Bali and thoroughly studied the indigenous music. McPhee composed music incorporating Balinese themes. His book “Music in Bali”, is the definitive text on the subject. Listen to McPhee and Benjamin Britten performing "Tabuh Teluh," Balinese melodies transcribed for piano four-hands, and excerpts from the 1936 orchestral suite "Tabuh Tabuhan", and "Concerto for Piano and Wind Octet." Musical Selections: Tabuh Teluh [based on a traditional Indonesian melody] / Colin McPhee --Tabuh Tabuhan [excerpt] (1936) / Colin McPhee -- Concerto for Piano and Wind O...

4. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Richard Felciano [3.737% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Richard Felciano Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 129 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews Richard Felciano, who at the time of this recording was a member of the faculty at U. C. Berkeley, and whose album “The Music of Richard Felciano”, had been issued by Composers Recordings, Inc. Felciano introduces a number of his works including a December 1975 live performance of a piece for 14 carillons located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area all playing simultaneously. Felciano also discusses the challenges facing contemporary composers of new music. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Crasis, for 7 instruments and electronic sounds (1967) -- Spectra, for piccolo, flute, alto flute, and contrabass (1967) -- Gravities, for piano four hands (1965) -- Chöd, for six players and electronics [start of piece] (1975) Performers: David Subke, flute (Crasis) Donald O’Brien, clarinet (Crasis) Robert Bloch, violin (Crasis) Bonnie Hampton, cell...

5. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Charlie Morrow and New Wilderness Audiographics [3.226% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Charlie Morrow and New Wilderness Audiographics Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 74 mins Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From an interview recorded in December of 1977 and broadcast on June 26, 1978, Charles Amirkhanian talks with New York composer and producer, Charlie Morrow, at his home on West End Avenue in Manhattan. Morrow was, at the time of this recording, director of the New Wilderness Foundation, which issued a remarkable series of cassette tapes featuring experimental music, text-sound compositions, and field recordings, created by a variety of avant-garde composers and poets. The program begins with several excerpts from Morrow’s own works inspired by Native American chanting and the anthropological text-sound compositions of Jerome Rothenberg, with whom he co-founded the New Wilderness Foundation. Morrow then goes on to present a sampling of other works issued by the Foundation and talks about his affinity with many of the experimental composers and...

6. radiOM.org - Other Minds Presents Music for Two Pianos: A Benefit Concert for Other Minds, (Oct. 11, 2007) [3.065% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Presents: Music for Two Pianos: A Benefit Concert for Other Minds, (Oct. 11, 2007) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 77 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds On October 11, 2007, Other Minds presented a concert of music for two pianos, featuring works by Philip Glass, Balduin Sulzer, Adam Fong, Chen Yi, as well as an arrangement of J. S. Bach by György Kurtág. All the pieces were performed by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa in the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. First on the program was “Six Scenes from Les Enfants Terribles” by Philip Glass. This work was originally composed in 1996 as part of a trilogy of operas based on three films by Jean Cocteau. It has since been arranged for two pianos by Davies and Namekawa. This was followed by Balduin Sulzer’s “Dialogue for Two Pianos”, a recent work (2007), that was composed specifically for this concerts two performers. It is a three-part tonal work which explores all the keyboard registers with pungent dissonances and vi...

7. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity The Melodious Keypunch: Keyboard works of Dello Joio, Barber, Stravinsky, & Shapero [3.043% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: The Melodious Keypunch: Keyboard works of Dello Joio, Barber, Stravinsky, & Shapero Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 58 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Host Charles Amirkhanian plays selected keyboard works of Norman Dello Joio, Samuel Barber, Igor Stravinsky, and Harold Shapero. Discussions about each piece follows as well as a story told by Stravinsky of the time when he stayed in Oakland, CA as a guest of the Darius Milhaud. Musical Selections: Sonata No. 3, for piano (1947) / Norman Dello Joio -- Four Excursions, Op. 20 (1944) / Samuel Barber -- Sonata, for two pianos (1945) / Igor Stravinsky -- Sonata, for piano four hands (1941) / Harold Shapero Performers: Frank Glazer, piano (Sonata No. 3) André Previn, piano (Four Excursions) Arthur Gold, piano (Sonata for 2 pianos) Robert Fizdale, piano (Sonata for 2 pianos) Harold Shapero, piano (Sonata for piano 4 hands) Leo Smit, piano (Sonata for piano 4 hands) Genre: 20th Century Classical Subject: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-19...

8. radiOM.org - Two Works by Richard Felciano [2.352% Popularity: 0.00000]

Two Works by Richard Felciano Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 15 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A recording of two chamber works by Richard Felciano, performed by San Francisco Bay Area musicians. The first work is the 1962 composition “Evolutions,” performed by Jerome Rose on clarinet and Lois Brandwynne on piano. This is followed by the 1965 composition “Gravities”, which is scored for piano four hands, and is performed by Milton and Peggy Salkind. Felciano was born in Santa Rosa California in 1930 and studied music at the San Francisco State College and Mills College before traveling to Europe to study with Olivier Messiaen and Luigi Dallapiccola. He later returned to the San Francisco Bay Area where he eventually joined the music faculty at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to composing such contemporary chamber works as those heard here, Felciano also became quite interested in the science of acoustics and the possibilities of electronic music, and founded the ...

9. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Piano: No Hands [2.293% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Piano: No Hands Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 119 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In a recording made in 1992, Charles Amirkhanian hosts a program featuring music played on the Disklavier, a sort of modern player piano. It is a devise that can be attached to a grand piano so as to enable it to record, playback, and even manipulate music played on its keys. In the first half of the program, Charles is joined in the studio by Gary Noland, who has composed a number of pieces for the Disklavier. In the second half of the program, Charles conducts an impromptu interview with Richard Dunn of the BBC in which they discuss the BBC's World Service and the implications of digital radio broadcasting. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Study No. 3A / Conlon Nancarrow -- Six Lurid Albumblatts, for 1-1000 players in pictographic notation Op. 14 / Gary Noland -- Grande Rag Brillante, Op. 15 (1978-79, rev. 1989) / Gary Noland -- Étude No. 2, for piano (1985) / György Lige...

10. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Conlon Nancarrow (1984) [2.039% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Conlon Nancarrow (1984) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 101 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Recorded on February 2, 1984 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Conlon Nancarrow before a live audience. After playing a short documentary on the life and work of Conlon Nancarrow, Charles Amirkhanian talks with the composer about his music. Conlon Nancarrow has been recognized as one of the most fascinating 20th century composers in the world. An expatriate American who lived in Mexico City, Nancarrow composed almost exclusively for the player piano. His incredibly complex scores are not playable by human hands, but through his laborious hand-punched piano rolls, the music is dazzling in its speed and complexity. In this program Nancarrow discussed the oppressive political atmosphere that led him to leave the United States, the reasons he took up his ...