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1. radiOM.org - The Age of the Talking Machine A Review of Vintage Recordings [4.137% Popularity: 0.00000]

The Age of the Talking Machine: A Review of Vintage Recordings Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 46 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Byron Bryant and Will Ogden review vintage recordings from the beginning of the 20th Century, focusing on the early cello recording of Pablo Casals, made between 1915 to 1926. Although the quality of the recordings made with an assortment of early technologies are scratchy at times, the strength of the performances, especially those by Casals, can not be denied. At a time when many great performers were heard only in the concert halls, and for that reason their reputations are perhaps diminished in the minds of many today, the genius of Pablo Casals was thankfully captured in these vintage recordings. Thus cementing his reputation as one of the greatest cellists of all time. Bryant and Ogdon play a selection of these very early recordings, comparing different performers, and commenting on the quality of the various techniques used to obtain these precious aud...

2. radiOM.org - Oakland Museum Concerts Chamber Music Concert, March 12, 1971 [4.130% Popularity: 0.00000]

Oakland Museum Concerts: Chamber Music Concert, March 12, 1971 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 87 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA This is the second 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 second concert, recorded on March 12, 1971, includes songs by Claudio Monteverdi, Virgil Thomson with Gertrude Stein, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as chamber works by Ernest Bloch, and Leon Kirchner. All performed by local San Francisco Bay Area musicians. Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: Continuo Madrigals: Lamento della Ninfa (1638) (6:30) ; Si dolce e il tormento (1624) (3:00) ; Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti (1632) (8:30) / Claudio Monteverdi Performers: Kristine Comendant, soprano (Lamento ; Si Dolce) Bruce Brewer, tenor (Lamento ; Zefiro) David Hammer,...

3. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 13: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 [4.080% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 13: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 140 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian moderates a panel discussion with the composers featured in the first concert of OM 13. Michael Bach discusses the inspiration for Dieter Schnebel’s “Mit Diesen Händen” as well as describing his unique curved BACH.bow that he uses to perform it. Åke Parmerud then reflects on the nature of science and the concept that all of creation can be considered as a single organic machine, and how he has used it as the philosophical basis for his tape piece “La Vie Mécanique”. Elena Kats-Chernin describes her works for piano, which despite their deceptively simple structure, are in fact incredibly difficult to play. And a somewhat taciturn Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith offers a brief introduction to his compositional technique, while also declaring his personal predilection to not talk about h...

4. radiOM.org - A Concert by the CalArts Chamber Music Ensemble, April 10, 1972 [2.928% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Concert by the CalArts Chamber Music Ensemble, April 10, 1972 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 63 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA From a concert held at Hertz Hall on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley on April 10, 1972, the Cal Arts Chamber Music Ensemble performs works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Webern, and Ernő Dohnanyi. Introduced by host Charles Shere, this concert includes Serenades by Beethoven and Dohnanyi as well as a string trio by Webern. The Cal Arts Chamber Ensemble were Jill Shires, flute Yoko Matsuda, violin, James Dunham, viola, and Barbara Miller, cello. Musical Selections: Serenade in D Major, Op. 25 (1801) (20:37) / Ludwig van Beethoven -- String Trio, Op. 20 (1926-27) (11:14) / Anton Webern -- Serenade in C Major, Op. 10 (1902) (21:27) / Ernő Dohnanyi Performers: CalArts Chamber Music Ensemble: Jill Shires, flute Yoko Matsuda, violin James Dunham, viola Barbara Miller, cello Genres: Classical Music ; 20th Century Classical Subject: 19th cen...

5. radiOM.org - Speaking of Music Lou Harrison & Bill Colvig [2.926% Popularity: 0.00000]

Speaking of Music: Lou Harrison & Bill Colvig Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 117 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Recorded on February 16, 1989 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of America's most distinguished composers, Lou Harrison, whose use of gamelan instruments and interest in word music helped bring an appreciation of Pacific and Asian music to the United States. William Colvig collaborated with Harrison for many years, building original and gamelan-inspired instruments. The program begins with Eric Marin's film documenting Harrison & Colvig, and continues with excerpts from Harrison's “Piano Concerto” (featuring Keith Jarrett) and "Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra." The second part of the program includes a demonstration of original instruments by Harrison & Colvig. Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: Piano Concerto [excerpt] (1985) / Lou Harrison ...

6. radiOM.org - Divertimento for Orchestra by Bruno Maderna & Luciano Berio [2.926% Popularity: 0.00000]

Divertimento for Orchestra by Bruno Maderna & Luciano Berio Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 14 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian introduces the little known “Divertimento for Orchestra,” composed jointly by the two Italian avant-garde composers, Bruno Maderna & Luciano Berio. Amirkhanian came upon this rare recording when rummaging through the archives of the West German Radio in Cologne, while on an exchange program with the Dutch radio station VPRO, in late 1973. The work is in three movements, the first, “Dark Rapture Crawl” by Maderna, and the second and third, “Scat Bag “ and “Rhumba-Ramble” by Berio. This is a recording on a 1958 performance by the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Bruno Maderna. Musical Selections: Divertimento for Orchestra: Dark Rapture Crawl (1958) ; Scat Bag (1958) ; Rhumba-Ramble (1953) (10:35) / Bruno Maderna [1st mov.] & Luciano Berio [2nd & 3rd movs.] Performers: Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra Bruno Maderna, condu...

7. radiOM.org - New Sounds San Jose The Fourth Annual Festival: Concert Four [2.925% Popularity: 0.00000]

New Sounds San Jose: The Fourth Annual Festival: Concert Four Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 56 min Event Type: Music The San Francisco Guitar Quartet performs works by Joaquin Rodrigo, John Duarte Federico Moreno-Torroba, Manuel de Falla, and others. Recorded May 9, 1982 as part of the 4th Annual New Sounds San Jose Concerts. The members of the quartet are James Colgan, Timothy Fox, Geoffrey Stewart, and Lynn Zemlin, and should not be confused with a current group, founded in 1997, with the same name. Musical Selections: Estudiantina (1962) (3:25) / Joaquin Rodrigo -- English Suite No. 3 Op. 78: Rufty Tufty ; The Crystal Spring ; The Black Nag (1979) / John Duarte -- Sonata Fantasia II (1976) / Federico Moreno Torroba -- Three Rags: Ragtime Dance ; Solace ; Maple Leaf Rag / Scott Joplin -- Quartet (1975) / Paul Dresher -- Four Ballet Scenes: Millers Dance [from “Three-cornered hat”] ; The Magic Circle [from “El Amor Brujo”] ; Panotomime ; Spanish Dance [from “La Vida Breve”] / Manuel de Falla Pe...

8. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Oceans in Motion [2.924% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Oceans in Motion Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 86 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian introduces recordings of unusual 20th Century music released by the Ocean Records label. The brainchild of composer Allen Strange and friend David Porter, Ocean distributed cassettes of sound poetry, electronic music, Indonesian music, and other salty material, once a month to subscribers. In this program, Amirkhanian highlights Ocean’s Composers’ Cassettes recordings of music by Lou Harrison and Richard Dee (”Suite for Violin with American Gamelan”) and sound poetry by Larry Wendt. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 2: Musical Selections: [unidentified excerpt of a piece of electronic music] / Ragnar Grippe -- Suite for Violin with American Gamelan (1974) (26:30) / Lou Harrison & Richard Dee -- Annabelle's Song (4:50) / Larry Wendt -- Lost Among Dead Giants (2:31) / Larry Wendt -- Pandora (3:45) / Larry Wendt -- Berlin Adonis (4:38) / Larry Wendt -- A Spartan f...

9. radiOM.org - Morning Concert John Duffy & Heritage: A Symphonic Suite with Narration [2.923% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: John Duffy & Heritage: A Symphonic Suite with Narration Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 107 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer John Duffy, whose television series soundtrack “Heritage: Civilization & The Jews,” has been reworked into a suite for orchestra with narrator. Duffy, the founder of the Meet the Composer organization, which assists groups in bringing composers to meet their audiences, has had a revolutionary impact on the American music scene of the late 20th century. Now Charles Amirkhanian plays turnabout and brings you John Duffy himself, interviewed shortly after his 60th birthday in his Manhattan studio on October 9, 1988. In this wide ranging interview Duffy discusses the role of religion in his life, his early studies with Henry Cowell and Luigi Dallapiccola, and the philosophy behind the Meet the Composer series. (from KPFA Folio) Musical Selections: Heritage: Symphonic Suite with Narration: Part 1, In the Beginn...

10. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity The Early Music of Roger Sessions [2.923% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: The Early Music of Roger Sessions Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 59 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian presents three works from the early period of the American composer, Roger Sessions. Born in 1896, Sessions studied music at Harvard and Yale, where his teachers included Ernest Bloch. After traveling for a number of years in Europe, where he also started writing his first major works, Sessions returned to the United States to teach at Princeton and U. C. Berkeley, where he influenced a whole generation of composers including Milton Babbitt, Earl Kim, John Adams, Andrew Imbrie, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and many more. The compositions heard during this program include two works for solo piano, “From My Diary” and “Sonata No. 1”. The program concludes with Session’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra” performed by Paul Zukofsky with Gunther Schuller conducting the ORTF Orchestra. Musical Selections: From my Diary (1937"40) (9:00) -- Sonata No. 1 for Piano (...