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1. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Berthold Goldschmidt [1.606% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Berthold Goldschmidt Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 115 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian explores the life and music of Berthold Goldschmidt (b. 1903). Goldschmidt is a German born composer who emigrated to England when Hitler came to power. There he existed in the margins of the musical world until his work was discovered by a number of younger composers in the early 1980s. He then experienced a sort of renaissance in which his works were performed and recorded, and also during which he composed a number of new works. This program includes a telephone interview with the 89 year old composer from London as well as interviews with a number of his relatives that live in the Bay Area. The program concludes with a promotion for the production of "The Flying Dutchman' by the Wagner Society of Northern California. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Letzte Kapitel (1930"31) -- Clarinet Quartet [excerpt] (1983) -- Sonata, Op. 10 (192...

2. radiOM.org - Lou Harrison at the Spaghetti Factory (1971) [4.008% Popularity: 0.00000]

Lou Harrison at the Spaghetti Factory (1971) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 89 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) A concert of Lou Harrison’s music, (with one piece by Carlos Chávez), performed at The Old Spaghetti Factory in San Francisco on January 24, 1971. Works include several pieces for solo piano by Lou Harrison, a sonatina for violin and piano by Chávez, and selections from “Young Caesar,” a homoerotic opera featuring life sized puppets and unconventional instrumentation by Lou Harrison with a libretto by Robert Gordon. This recording features excerpts from the first performance of the opera. Musical Selections: Prelude for Grand Piano (1938) / Lou Harrison -- Ground in E Minor, for piano (1936) / Lou Harrison -- Homage to Milhaud, for piano (1948) / Lou Harrison -- Western Dance. for piano (1947) / Lou Harrison -- Largo Ostinate (1936) / Lou Harrison -- Sonata No. 3, for piano (1938) / Lou Harrison -- Sonatina, for violin and piano (1924) / ...

3. radiOM.org - Morning Concert In Honor of Leo Ornstein’s 95th Birthday (Dec. 11, 1987) [2.005% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: In Honor of Leo Ornstein’s 95th Birthday (Dec. 11, 1987) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 119 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) On December 11, 1987 Leo Ornstein, one of the most important composer-pianists of the 20th century,celebrated his 95th birthday at his home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In this program, Charles Amirkhanian takes a look at the career of this remarkable path-breaking musician whose early piano compositions, and performances of the most radical European composers of the day, shocked audiences throughout the U. S. in the period from 1912 to 1915. Included are several of his piano works performed by Michael Sellers and Martha Anne Verbit, as well as two chamber works, and an orchestral work featuring the Louisville Orchestra. Amirkhanian also interviews the 95 year old composer over the phone from his home, during which Ornstein discusses the loss of his wife two years previously, his then current effort...

4. radiOM.org - Sonata, for cello and piano by Tibor Harsányi [3.669% Popularity: 0.00000]

Sonata, for cello and piano by Tibor Harsányi Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 18 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA An early recording of Tibor Harsányi’s 1928 “Sonata” for cello and piano, performed by Hans Kindler on cello and the composer on piano. A French composer of Hungarian birth, Harsányi studied with both Bartók and Kodály, and toured extensively as a concert pianist before finally settling down in the Netherlands and then Paris in 1924. Although Harsányi early works were influenced by the same desire to explore native Hungarian folk songs like his mentor Bartók, he later developed his own harmonic language, embracing both dissonant chromatic as well as diatonic styles of writing. He was even known to incorporate influences from American jazz music. However this work is more traditional and austere than many of his compositions. Musical Selections: Sonata, for cello and piano (1928) (17:41) / Tibor Harsányi Performers: Hans Kindler, violoncello Tibor Harsányi, piano Genres: 20th ...

5. radiOM.org - Avant-Garde Trombone Studio Concert [2.921% Popularity: 0.00000]

Avant-Garde Trombone Studio Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 105 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Stuart Dempster, principal trombonist of the Oakland Symphony, and faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory and San Francisco State College, presents a recital of six premieres, including three works commissioned by himself. This concert was held on June 24, 1966 at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. The concert is announced by Charles Boone, composer and officer of the Composers' Forum. During the intermission he interviews Mr. Dempster, who discusses his instrument and his commissions. Composer Robert Erickson is also interviewed, and he discusses his teaching as well as his music. This is a good recording of a fine concert of avant-garde music. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Changes: In Open Style, for trombone and magnetic tape (1965) / Larry Austin -- Solo, for sliding trombone (1957-58) / John Cage -- Ricercar à 5 (1966) / Robert Erickson Performers: Stuart Dempster,...

6. radiOM.org - New Music Seance 2005: Concert No. 1, Walk in Beauty [3.990% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Music Seance: 2005: Concert No. 1, Walk in Beauty Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 90 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 2005 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. Held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco, this first concert features works by Dane Rudhyar Peter Garland, Leo Ornstein, Erik Satie, Charles Ives, and others. Part 1 of 9: Musical Selections: Stars [excerpt from Third Pentagram] (1926) / Dane Rudhyar -- Sunburst [excerpt from Third Pentagram] (1926) / Dane Rudhyar Performers: Sarah Cahill, piano Genre: New Music Subject: New music ; Piano music People...

7. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey [1.555% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Her Odyssey Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 107 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Born Dec. 29, 1912 in Melbourne, Australia, Peggy Glanville-Hicks was, until recently, virtually unknown in her native country. In 1931 she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied composition, piano and conducting with the cream of British musical life: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arthur Benjamin, Constant Lambert, and Malcolm Sargent. A traveling scholarship sent her to Vienna in 1936 to study with Egon Wellesz and to Paris for sessions with Nadia Boulanger. From 1942 to 1959, she lived in the United States, becoming active as a resourceful and inventive concert organizer, and as a brilliant music critic for the “New York Herald Tribune”, where her colleagues were Virgil Thomson, Lou Harrison and Paul Bowles. After leaving New York, she settled in Greece before returning to Australia in the mid-seventies. Her own music...

8. radiOM.org - Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert [3.977% Popularity: 0.00000]

Gertrude Stein 100th Anniversary Concert Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 121 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This four part program is of a live broadcast from a concert given at 1750 Arch Street on February 3, 1974, in honor of Gertrude Stein on the 100th anniversary of her birth. During the intermission and while the audience viewed the film "The Last Still Life" by Ann Sandifer, Charles Amirkhanian plays a recording of a Suite from Virgil Thomson's opera, "The Mother of Us All", based on a text by Gertrude Stein. The live concert then concludes with an additional work by Thomson and one by Charles Shere. Part 1 of 4: Musical Selections: Miss Gertrude Stein as a Young Girl (1928) / Virgil Thomson -- A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (1922) / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla / Gertrude Stein -- Preciosilla [text by Gertrude Stein] (1926) / Virgil Thomson -- She She and She (1974) / Charles Amirkhanian -- Sonata No.3 (1930) / Virgil Thomson Performers: Ron Erickson, violin (Stein as a young...

9. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Chapel Court & Countryside: The Bach-Beethoven Connection [1.558% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: Chapel Court & Countryside: The Bach-Beethoven Connection Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 123 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the “English Bach” John Christian Bach, and their influence on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, all in performances which attempt to approximate the sounds that audiences of the period might have experienced. Some listeners will prefer these performances, others will not; yet they all will find insights into how the majesty of Bach led to the magic of Mozart. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Sweet and Low [text by Alfred Tennyson] / Joseph Barnaby -- Trio Sonata on the Royal Theme, BWV 1079 [from “The Musical Offering”] (1747) / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Rondo in C Major, H. 260 (1774-80) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Symphonia No. 3 in C Major, H. 259 (1773) / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- La D'Hericourt (1759) / Claude-Bénigne Balbastre -- Marche des marseil...

10. radiOM.org - Morning Concert Piano: No Hands [4.915% 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...