KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Music by Edward MacDowell, Irving Fine, & André Jolivet

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1970.04.22

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

63 min

Dates

1970-04-22 | broadcast
| 1970-04-22 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian introduces two works for solo piano and then a piano concerto. The first piece is by the American composer, Edward MacDowell, whose estate in Peterborough, NH was later converted by his widow into a sanctuary named the MacDowell Colony, where to this day artists can go to spend several months in peaceful surroundings and work on their art. The second piece, by Irving Fine, was actually composed while he was a resident of the Colony. The final piece in this program is André Jolivet’s piano concerto, heard here in an out-of-print, mono recording from the 1950s.

Genres

20th century classical
Classical music

Musical Selections

Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 (1896) / Edward MacDowell -- Music for Piano [2nd & 3rd movements] (1947) / Irving Fine -- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1950) / André Jolivet

Performers

Vivian Rifkin, piano (Woodland Sketches)
Irving Fine, piano (Music for Piano)
Orchestre du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Concerto)
Ernest Bour, conductor (Concerto)
Lucette Descaves, piano (Concerto)

Subjects

20th century classical
19th century classical
Piano music
Concertos (Piano)

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Orchestre du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
Amirkhanian, Charles
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908
Fine, Irving, 1914-1962
Jolivet, André, 1905-1974
Rifkin, Vivian
Descaves, Lucette