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1. radiOM.org - Pacifica Chamber Players An Avant-Garde Concert, (January 19, 1971) [5.061% Popularity: 0.00000]

Pacifica Chamber Players: An Avant-Garde Concert, (January 19, 1971) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 103 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: KPFA The Pacifica Chamber Players, formed for the purpose of playing studio concerts over the air on KPFA, present a concert of music composed for the ensemble by Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Friedman, Charles Shere, Julian White, plus a work written by the American composer Henry Brant. The Players include different performers for each concert, depending on the music chosen by the ensemble's director, clarinetist, Thomas Rose. The first piece, "Knell", by Amirkhanian features the tape manipulation of a previously recorded live concert and uses numerous unusual sound-making devices. Brant's "Variation for Four Instruments" was written when Brant was only 17 years old. This early work exhibits what Brant has termed "oblique harmony," a procedure by which the various resolutions of the separate voices sound at different times, (in the form of a slant when vie...