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1. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Frederic Rzewski, 1989 [7.434% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Frederic Rzewski, 1989 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 127 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: C Amirkhanian Recorded on January 9, 1989 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian interviews Frederic Rzewski, one of the most important American composer/performers of the late 20th century. Rzewski was born in 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard and Princeton, where he studied with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt. In 1960 he went to Italy to study with Luigi Dallapiccola, and has continued to live in Europe for much of his life. He was a cofounder with Alvin Curran of the radical avant-garde group Musica Elettronica Viva, which was famous for their improvised electronic music concerts during the 1960s and 70s. The composer of a famous set of piano variations on Victor Jara's “El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido”, Rzewski discusses his recent music and artistic tastes. Rzewski is k...

2. radiOM.org - Morning Concert A Visit With Frederic Rzewski [7.334% 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...

3. radiOM.org - Contemporary Music Fifth Biennial Survey of Contemporary Music: Works by Frederic Rzewski & Julius Eastman [7.293% Popularity: 0.00000]

Contemporary Music: Fifth Biennial Survey of Contemporary Music: Works by Frederic Rzewski & Julius Eastman Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 30 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA One in a series of programs originating from the International Service of Belgium Radio and Television in which the works of contemporary 20th century composers are highlighted. In this edition two pieces by American composers are performed by the Society of Electronic Music of Buffalo, New York. First is “Le Montons De Panurge” by Frederic Rzewski, a work scored “for any number of musicians playing melody instruments plus any number of non-musicians playing anything.” Rzewski, a talented pianist and composer, was born in Massachusetts in 1938, was a member of the Italian-based avant-garde electronic music group Musica Elettronica Viva, and later taught at the New School in New York. The second work “Creation” is by Julius Eastman, who was born in 1940 in Ithaca, New York and taught at the State University of New Y...

4. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Music by Fredric Rzewski and Garrett List [6.350% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Music by Fredric Rzewski and Garrett List Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 89 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA In a program, first broadcast on July 3, 1974, host Charles Amirkhanian introduces music by American composers, Frederic Rzewski and Garrett List, both of whom have set political texts against vibrant electro-acoustic instrumental backdrops featuring strongly rhythmic repetition. The program begins with “Coming Together,” a 1972 composition by Rzewski that takes as its text words by Sam Melville, a prisoner who was killed during the riots at Attica Correctional Facility in New York State. Rzewski, a founding member of the trailblazing improvisational electro-acoustic ensemble, Musica Elettronica Viva, is as well known for his leftist politics as he is for his brilliant piano playing and his remarkable compositions. Other works by Rzewski heard in this program include “Les Moutons de Panurge,” an aleatoric piece scored for any number of instruments of any type, and...

5. radiOM.org - Pitch Out by Allan Bryant [5.097% Popularity: 0.00000]

Pitch Out by Allan Bryant Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 19 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Originally released as an insert into the seminal avant-garde “Source” magazine, this is a recording of members of Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV), performing Allan Bryant’s “Pitch Out” for three guitars and electronics. Musica Elettronica Viva was the premiere experimental electronic music ensemble performing live music during the 1960s and 70s. Bryant, a founding member of MEV, is an American composer noted for his reexamination of the electric guitar as a source of electronic sounds as opposed to its more traditional use in a rock band. Musical Selections: Pitch Out, for three guitars and electronics (1967) (17:51) / Allan Bryant Performers: Musica Elettronica Viva: Barbara Bryant, guitar Carol Plantamura, guitar Frederic Rzewski, guitar Allan Bryant, electronics Genre: Electro-Acoustic / Electronic Subject: Electro-acoustic ; Electronic music ; Aleatory music ; Plucked instrument trios (Guitar...

6. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Interview with John Rockwell [5.092% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Interview with John Rockwell Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 88 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA In March 1983, Knopf Publishers of New York released the controversial book “All American Music: Composition of the late 20th Century”, by New York Times music critic John Rockwell. On March 14, 1983, live on the KPFA Morning Concert, Charles Amirkhanian talked with Rockwell about this book and the various composers featured, who range from Milton Babbitt to Neil Young to Phil Glass to Ornette Coleman. Musical examples from the work of each composer are also heard. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [Music excerpt] / Milton Babbitt -- [Music excerpt] / Elliott Carter -- Variation IV [excerpt] / John Cage -- [Music excerpt] / David del Tredici -- [Music excerpt] / Frederic Rzewski -- [Music excerpt] / Bob Ashley Genres: 20th Century Classical ; New Music Subject: Babbitt, Milton, 1916- ; Glass, Philip ; Cage, John ; Carter, Elliott, 1908- ; del Tredici, David ; Rze...

7. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Alvin Curran in Italy [5.087% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Alvin Curran in Italy Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 81 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian presents an Ode to Gravity program featuring an interview with the composer Alvin Curran from his home in Rome. Selections from this informal talk with Curran are interspersed with musical excerpts, with a special emphasis on the group Curran helped found in the mid-1960s, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV). The composer discusses other original members of the group, including Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and Alan Bryant, and describes the synthesis of the group, its working methods, and the situation that led to its disbandment. Curran further describes the group’s second incarnation, MEV2, and briefly discusses his own recent work, “Music for Every Occasion.” The program concludes with selections by David Ahlstrom and Robert Erickson, featuring Jack Logan on trumpet Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [excerpts of unidentified electronic music] -- ...

8. radiOM.org - The Music of Alvin Curran and MEV [5.082% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Music of Alvin Curran and MEV Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 132 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) A selection of recordings and live performances by Alvin Curran and the electronic improvisational group Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV). MEV was originally founded in Rome in 1966 by Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Allan Bryant and others. It has since gone through several personnel changes and these later formations are sometimes referred to as MEV2. This program demonstrates the classic avant-garde, electro-acoustic music style that defined the MEV sound during the 1960s and early 70s. Using hand-built electronics and amplifying various household objects MEV concerts during this period were highly improvisational and occasionally quite loud. Anybody interested in the early electronic music of composers such as John Cage, David Tudor, and others should find these live concert recordings a fascinating window into those first days of ex...

9. radiOM.org - Alea II, The Ensemble for New Music Concert, Nov. 23, 1971 [5.079% Popularity: 0.00000]

Alea II, The Ensemble for New Music Concert, Nov. 23, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 88 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA A concert of New Music presented by the Ensemble for New Music and the Alea Special Chorus, held at the Dinkenspiel Auditorium of Stanford University on November 23, 1971. Works include Joseph Matthias Hauer's 1922 piece "Atonale Musik", “Planctus, in Memoriam” by Matthew Andrews, “Composition for Two Players” by Frederick Rzewski, as well as the premiere of Richard Borovsky's "Studies on a Cosmic Law". Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Atonale Musik Op. 20 (1922) / Joseph Matthias Hauer Performers: Martha Dee, piano Sarah Murdock, piano Samuel Swartz, organ Ivan Tcherepnin, celesta Genres: New Music ; 20th Century Classical Subject: New music ; 20th century classical ; Piano music People: Hauer, Josef Matthias, 1883-1959 ; Dee, Martha ; Murdock, Sarah ; Swartz, Samuel John ; Tcherepnin, Ivan Recording Date: 11/23/1971 Part 2 of 2: Musical Selections: Planctus, in...

10. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Piano: No Hands [5.078% 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...