Charles Amirkhanian Collection ➔ Composer-to-Composer Festival: Day 3 Discussions, Fred Ho and Alicia Terzian (July 10, 1991), 2 of 3
Digital Audio
Event Type
Lectures and Panel DiscussionsOrigin
C AmirkhanianIdentifier
CTC.1991.07.10.BProgram Series
Composer-to-Composer FestivalProgram Length
121 minPart
2 of 3Dates
| broadcast| 1991-07-10 | created
Description
Continuation of the morning discussion on July 10, 1991 with participants of the 1991 Composer to Composer Festival.The composers continue the topic of elitism in music and how it effects where foundation and government money should go. Fred Ho and Charles Amirkhanian then discuss the intricacies of race in the arts, the problematic nature of accepting money from systems that don’t support ones ideology, and whether this is even possible.
Tom Zé then interjects, what is a poor person? Fred Ho responds that he is poor because he makes less than $25,000 a year. Tom Zé then responds that he is rich by Brazilian standards and that the Americans and Europeans in this discussion do not even understand what poverty is.
The composers move on to talk about the divide in Hindustani music, Western Classical music, and art music in general and its lack of visibility/impact on the common person.
The group breaks for coffee and there is random talk for another for ten minutes before the presentations by Fred Ho and Alicia Terzian begin.
Fred Ho starts off by presenting two movements from his oratorio “Turn Pain into Power”; Turning the Other Cheek Only Gets You Two Sore Cheeks! Essay to X, and “A Slave of a Slave No More!, Mujer Puertorriquena, Puerto Rican Women” performed by the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble.
He then presents an excerpt from his ballet for children “Monkey Meets the Spider Spirits” performed by the Journey Beyond the West Orchestra.
After that Ho explains and plays “Uproar in Heaven” from the same serial adventure as the previous selection (which would later be called Journey Beyond the West: the New Adventures of Monkey).
After one more short excerpt from “Uproar...” per Charles’ request, Ho concludes his presentation.
Alicia Terzian begins by announcing that she will present works from her “three periods.”
She plays the first movement of her Violin Concerto, which she composed in her second year of conservatory when she was studying with Alberto Ginastera.
Terzian then talks about her study of ancient religious music and its use of microtonal tunings and her composition process. She talks about how all of her music past her “second period” is microtonal, focusing on quarter tones.
She then plays “Carmen Criaturalis” for horn, vibraphone, cymbal and orchestra and “Song for Myself” for String Orchestra, electronics, and voice, from her “third period” of composition. She explains the use of electronics in the work when the recording ends abruptly.
Genres
Jazz20th century classical
Musical Selections
Turning The Other Cheek Only Gets You Two Sore Cheeks! "Essay To X" and A Slave Of A Slave No More! "Mujer Puertorriquena, Puerto Rican Women" [from Turn Pain Into Power!] (1997) (13:45) -- Monkey Meets the Spider Spirit Vampires [excerpt] (1989) (4:56) -- Uproar in Heaven [excerpt] (1990) (13:25) -- Uproar in Heaven [excerpt] (1990) (2:30) / Fred Ho -- Violin Concerto: Allegro [1st movement] (1955) (9:27) -- Carmen Criaturalis [excerpt] (1969-71) (2:15) -- Song For Myself [excerpt] (1987) (11:00) / Alicia TerzianPerformers
Afro-Asian Music Ensemble, (Turn Pain Into Power)Fred Ho, saxophone (Turn Pain Into Power)
Journey Beyond the West Orchestra, (Spider Meets...)
Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires (Carmen Criaturalis)
Subjects
DiscussionsMusic patronage
Poverty
Art and music
World music
Horn with orchestra
Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble
String quartets
Electronic music
Acknowledgment
Digitized with support from the National Recording Preservation Foundation, The Copland Fund, and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.Related Event
Composer-to-Composer Festival, 1991Related place
Telluride (Colo.) (was recorded at)Related Entities
Composer-to-Composer FestivalTelluride Institute
Alberga, Eleanor
Ho, Fred Wei-han, 1957-2014
Amirkhanian, Charles
Dresher, Paul
Zé, Tom, 1936-
Andriessen, Louis, 1939-
Giteck, Janice, 1946-
Sachdev, Gurubachan Singh (G.S.)
Terzian, Alicia