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1. radiOM.org - An Evening of Player Pianos [5.090% Popularity: 0.00000]

An Evening of Player Pianos Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 105 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Blues, pop and classical music is heard performed on two 50 year old player pianos. Charles Amirkhanian and Bill Schechner are guests in the home of Sally and Dale Lawrence and are invited to paw through 700 rolls, and play as many as possible. Amirkhanian and Schechner also interview Dick Rutlinger & Mel Luccetti, who are both members of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors Association (AMICA). Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Song of India / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov -- American in Paris: Part 2 / George Gershwin -- Music of the Spheres [part 5 of "Winterreigen"] / Ernő Dohnanyi Genre: Mechanical Music Subject: Player piano ; Player piano music ; Mechanical pianos ; Popular music People: Amirkhanian, Charles ; Schechner, Bill ; Lawrence, Sally ; Lawrence, Dale ; Rutlinger, Dick ; Luccetti, Mel ; Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 ; Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908 ; Dohnányi...

2. radiOM.org - Phantoms of the Opry Concert, Nov. 12, 1972 [5.077% Popularity: 0.00000]

Phantoms of the Opry Concert, Nov. 12, 1972 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 86 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Phantoms of the Opry, a San Francisco based bluegrass band active in the 1970s, in a in-studio, live broadcast of traditional bluegrass and country music, most likely recorded on November 12, 1972. Bill Schechner hosts the concert and talks to members of the band about their personal histories, the origins of bluegrass, the difficulties of making it big in bluegrass, and the influence of bluegrass music on mainstream rock and roll musicians. Musical Selections: Goldrush -- Who’s Shoulder Will You Cry On? / Kitty Wells -- Two Different Worlds -- Honey You Don't Know My Mind / Jimmy Skinner -- Fräulein -- John Henry / [traditional] -- Driving Nails In My Coffin / Ernest Tubb -- Heartbreak Mountain / Buck Owens -- Blue Night / Kirk McGee -- I Like To Hear Them Preach It -- Tennessee Waltz / Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King -- Daybreak In Dixie / Ralph Stanley -- Hit Parade of Love / Ji...

3. radiOM.org - World Ear Project Series 1, October 10, 1971 [5.075% Popularity: 0.00000]

World Ear Project: Series 1, October 10, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 57 min Event Type: Other Finds Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian introduces a program of ambient sound recordings made by listeners and friends of KPFA from around the world. On this program you will hear a ride in the Goodyear blimp “Columbia” as it flies over the Berkeley hills, a duck feeding at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, Charles taking a shower at home, the sound of Michael Barclay (KPFA’s opera commentator) breathing and writing, a flock of sparrows in a fifty year old redwood tree, and the story of John Fare, a conceptual artist whose “shows” consist of the continuing amputation of various portions of his physical body. (It is generally believed that Fare is a mythical character first conceived of by Av Isaacs who put on a mixed media show at his art gallery in Toronto, Sept. 17, 1968.) Musical Selections: [Michael Barclay, breathing and writing, October 8, 1971] -- [a ride in the Goodyear blimp “C...

4. radiOM.org - KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 2: Erik Bauersfeld and a Dramatic Quarter Century [5.056% Popularity: 0.00000]

KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 2: Erik Bauersfeld and a Dramatic Quarter Century Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 130 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The all day festivities celebrating KPFA’s 40th anniversary continues with a brief excerpt form the 10th anniversary program in which long time KPFA Public Affairs Director Elsa Knight Thompson ruminates on the groundbreaking political programing that was then, and is still today, a hallmark of the Pacifica stations. However the majority of this second segment of the 40th Anniversary Show is devoted to an interview with KPFA’s “Hero of the Hörspiel,” long time Drama and Literature Department Director, Erik Bauersfeld, whose productions of radio drama were legendary among KPFA listeners, and who is known to moviegoers worldwide for his roles as Admiral Akbar and Bib Fortuna in George Lucas’ Star Wars films. Bauersfeld, who become co-director of the Drama & Literature Department in 1963, and cont...

5. radiOM.org - KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 3: KPFA Miscellany [0.473% Popularity: 0.00000]

KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 3: KPFA Miscellany Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 57 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) In another segment from KPFA’s all day broadcast celebrating its 40th anniversary, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a program of unusual “airchecks” (recordings made during a live broadcast), saved by KPFA producers during strategic moments. You will thrill to the sounds of Bill Schechner, who later went on to a career with NBC News, reading headlines from the wire services on April 1, 1978, complete with impertinent asides; Kris Welch in a confrontational interview with Wayne Dyer, author of “Your Erroneous Zones” on July 29, 1976; Shafi Hakim playing music on Thanksgiving Day, 1977; the inaugural program of Sue Donati’s sex show, “Not Tonight I Have a Headache” on December 2, 1977; San Francisco artist Doug Kahn’s radio collage, “The Alienatisch”, starring Bill Sokol; an excerpt from the 1984 “Vox Pop Verite” progra...