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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Thin Air: Nicolas Slonimsky at 76, 1 of 2

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Event Type
Interviews
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
TA.1971.02.27.A
Program Series
Thin Air
Program Length
83 min
Part
1 of 2
Dates
1971-02-27 | broadcast
| 1971-02-27 | created
Description
A lively and engaging interview with Nicolas Slonimsky, the dean of musicological lexicography who visited KPFA in 1971 and talked with Robert Commanday (S.F. Chronicle music critic) and Charles Amirkhanian of KPFA. This program includes especially important discussions about Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ives by the first conductor ever to champion the music of Ives, Varèse, Cowell, and Riegger (in the early 1930's). Slonimsky also describes how he debunked a popular myth about the funeral of Mozart as part of his quest for accuracy of detail in his “Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians”. Composer Lowell Cross was also present. Includes piano performances by Slonimsky.
Genres
20th century classical
New music
Subjects
New music
20th century classical
Composers -- United States
Piano music
Conductors (Music)
Composers
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
San Francisco Chronicle
Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995
Commanday, Robert
Amirkhanian, Charles
Cross, Lowell M.