KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: A visit with Maro Ajemian (August, 26, 1970)

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1970.08.26

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

60 min

Dates

1970-08-26 | broadcast
| 1970-08-26 | created

Description

Internationally renowned pianist Maro Ajemian, her husband Lionel Galstaun, and KPFA's Richard Friedman and Charles Amirkhanian discuss the music of Komitas (1869-1935), an Armenian composer, performer, and musicologist, whose compositions are based on folk tunes of Armenia and set in the modes, rhythms, and harmonies of Eastern rather than Western (e.g. Khachaturian) composition. Examples of piano works and choral works are heard from a privately issued two-record album.

Genres

World music
20th century classical

Subjects

Folk music, Armenian
Piano music
Choral music
World music
Ethnic music
20th century classical

Related places

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

Related Entities

Ajemian, Maro
Galstaun, Lionel
Amirkhanian, Charles
Friedman, Richard