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1. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Composer and Opus One Records Director Max Schubel [5.070% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Composer and Opus One Records Director Max Schubel Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 125 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program recorded on February 23, 1976, Charles Amirkhanian interviews the director of Opus One Records, composer Max Schubel, who was visiting the Bay Area while working on music for a film. Opus One specializes in unusual avant-garde music, and its albums are easily found in record stores since all the covers are printed in fluorescent colors. In this interview Schubel talks about his then upcoming new issues and plays test pressings of some of them. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: From A Time of Snow (1971-72) / Lawrence Widdoes -- Trio for flute, clarinet, and oboe [with performers playing on and in an amplified piano and percussion, 6th movement] (1975) / William Wood -- Fugue for Percussion (1941) / Lou Harrison -- Apple Blossom (1972) / Peter Garland -- Fracture (1969) / Max Schubel Performers: Notes from Underground (Time) F...

2. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Interviews with Andrew Imbrie and Charles Wuorinen (Jan. 11, 1985) [5.068% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Interviews with Andrew Imbrie and Charles Wuorinen (Jan. 11, 1985) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 92 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA From a program broadcast on January 11, 1985, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Andrew Imbrie about a forthcoming retrospective concert of his works and his remembrances of Leo Ornstein, with whom he studied piano as a child. According to Imbrie, Ornstein is a very intuitive musician and served as an inspiration for his desire to become a composer. Imbrie also relates how Ornstein was himself led to composing as a means to recall the piano works that he was already improvising. Amirkhanian then introduces New York composer Charles Wuorinen, whose “Rhapsody” was scheduled to be performed by the San Francisco Symphony later that week. An advocate of well rehearsed performances of complex modern scores, Wuorinen has argued that audience acceptance of new works is greatly hindered by performances lacking in rehearsal preparation, i...

3. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 [4.960% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 16: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 126 min Event Type: Lecture and Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The 16th Other Minds Festival of New Music (OM 16) began with a panel discussion with some of the composers featured in the first night’s concert, held on March 3, 2011. Joining moderator Charles Amirkhanian on stage were Kyle Gann, Louis Andriessen, Agata Zubel, and Janice Giteck. Gann briefly discusses “Triskaidekaphonia I” which is the result of Gann’s desire to finally incorporate the musical equivalent of the number 13 into a composition, something he achieves with the introduction of a pure 13th harmonic at the beginning of this piece. His other featured work, “Kierkegaard, Walking,” was inspired by a European walking tour and an early interest in the Danish philosopher. Polish composer Agata Zubel discusses her decision to take up a second career as a classical concert singer, while also ...

4. radiOM.org - New Music America 1987: Concert No. 1 [1.917% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music America: 1987: Concert No. 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 127 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Relàche Additional Media Files (click to view) The 1987 New Music America Festival was held in Philadelphia during the first two weeks in October. Produced by the local ensemble Relâche, this 10 day extravaganza of adventurous musical programing featured over 20 concerts, lectures, and sound installations. A wide range of sonic delights were offered, ranging from 20th century classical works for instrumental ensemble, to examples of experimental electronic wizardry, to incomparable improvisational jazz extravaganza’s, all performed by a bevy of talented musicians and composers. This 10 day feast of avant-garde exceptionalism began with this program, recorded at the Port of History Museum on October 2, 1987, and generously provided to Other Minds by Joseph Franklin who directed the 1987 New Music America festival, and Werner Strobel who digitized the original tape recordings. The evening...

5. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Libby Larsen [1.849% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Libby Larsen Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 115 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA The composer and co-founder of the American Composers Forum is lively and candid in this late-1980s period piece recorded in front of a live audience on November 13, 1986 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series . Questioned by Charles Amirkhanian and members of the audience, Larsen talks about many things; including her background (entering music school with a deep background in "stride boogie, Gregorian chant, and the Mickey Mouse Club”); the myth of making a living as a composer; and the story of a commission from the town of Terrace, MN, population 70. Examples of Larson's music are heard, including Black Roller", "The Daytime Moon", and "Up Where the Air Is Thin" as well as excerpts from "Four on the Floor". Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Four on the Floor [excerpts from the video soundtrack] (1983) -- Up Where the Air Is Thin (1985) Perfo...

6. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Composer Karel Husa [1.842% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Composer Karel Husa Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 140 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Born in Prague in 1921, composer Karel Husa won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1969, for his third String Quartet. On February 7, 1975 he was in Berkeley to attend a conference of college band directors and stopped by the KPFA studio to talk with KPFA Music Director Charles Amirkhanian and Charles Shere, music critic with the Oakland Tribune. The three of them discuss the phenomena of university bands and how they are a breeding ground for young and enthusiastic wind players, who should ideally have an outlet for their talent once finishing their education. The idea that a composer needs to dumb down their works in order to be played by a school band is thoroughly disputed by Husa. Husa, who was a professor of music at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, also discusses his early life in Prague, his musical influences, including Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, as well...

7. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Composer William Hibbard [1.635% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Composer William Hibbard Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 137 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews William Hibbard, Music Director of the Center of New Music at the University of Iowa, who was spending his summer in the Bay Area. A number of his pieces are played and the composer describes his affection for 12 tone music. Later in the program, Charles plays a number of works by composers also teaching at the University of Iowa. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Menage (1974) -- Bass Trombone, Bass Clarinet, Harp (1973) -- Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1977) -- Round One ... and Another One (April 2, 1978) Performers: Susan Mattson, soprano (Menage) Joseph Kozera, trumpet (Menage) William Hibbard, violin (Menage) Jon English, bass trombone (Bass) Charles West, bass clarinet (Bass) Motter Forman, harp (Bass) University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra (Concerto) James Dixon, conductor (Concerto) William Hibbard, viola (Concerto) Steven S...

8. radiOM.org - Oakland Museum Concerts Chamber Music Concert, April 16, 1971 [1.412% Popularity: 0.00000]

Oakland Museum Concerts: Chamber Music Concert, April 16, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 82 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This is the third in a series of four concerts of chamber music put on by the Oakland Museum in the Spring of 1971. The focus of the concerts was works by contemporary California composers, although the programs also included other works, as seen fit by the program director Donald Cobb. Thus this third concert, recorded on April 16, 1971, includes works by William Byrd, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Carl Ruggles, Andrew Imbrie, Joseph Haydn, and Henry Cowell. All performed by local San Francisco Bay Area musicians. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Fantasia No. 1 (5:05) / William Byrd -- Second Concert: La Laborde (3:30) ; La Boucon (3:15) ; L’agaçante (1:40) ; First Menuet ; Second Menuet / Jean Philippe Rameau -- Angels (1920) (3:10) / Carl Ruggles -- Serenade (1952) (18:20) / Andrew Imbrie Performers: Nathan Rubin, violin (Fantasia ; Concert ; Angels) Ronald Ericks...

9. radiOM.org - Oakland Museum Concerts Chamber Music Concert, February 19, 1971 [1.168% Popularity: 0.00000]

Oakland Museum Concerts: Chamber Music Concert, February 19, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 103 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This is the first in a series of four concerts of chamber music put on by the Oakland Museum in the Spring of 1971. The focus of the concerts was works by contemporary California composers, although the programs also included other works , as seen fit by the program director Donald Cobb. Thus this first concert, recorded on February 19, 1971, includes songs by Aaron Copland, Ernst Bacon, and Guilaume de Machaut, as well as chamber works by Lou Harrison, Antonin Dvořák, George Gershwin, and Roy Harris. All performed by local San Francisco Bay Area musicians. Musical Selections: As It Fell Upon a Day [text by Richard Barnfield] (1923) / Aaron Copland -- Songs: Tels rit au main qui au soir ; Nes que on porroit ; Rose, liz / Guilaume de Machaut -- Saraband (1937) / Lou Harrison -- Prelude, for piano (1937) / Lou Harrison -- Songs: And This of All My Hopes [t...

10. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 4: Concert 2 [1.159% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 4: Concert 2 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 83 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Other Minds, Inc., in association with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and with the In Performance Series at the Cowell Theater in Fort Mason Center, presented Other Minds Festival IV at the Cowell Theater, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, November 10-12, 1997. The second concert on November 11, featured a diverse palette of works from performing composers Carl Stone, Hafez Modirzadeh, and Henry Brant. Additional performers included the Chromodal Consort and The Onyx Quartet. Program: Hafez Modirzadeh: Voices Unveiled (1997) (World Premiere) Hafez Modirzadeh with the Chromodal Consort “Voices Unveiled” is a five-song cycle that take their texts and musical influences from Mexico, India, Iran, Korea, and America. All music by Hafez Modirzadeh, except for Raga Mishra Gara (Path of Love) by Rita Sahai, arranged for consort by H. Modirzadeh, and Satira Filosophica, a ...