KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Oakland Museum Concerts: Songs Concert: master recording, 3 of 3
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
OMC.1972.03.19.c1.CProgram Series
Oakland Museum ConcertsProgram Length
94 minPart
3 of 3Dates
1972-08-30 | broadcast| 1972-03-19 | created
Description
This is a recording of a concert of art songs, (and some sound poetry), which was held at the Gallery of California Art of the Oakland Museum on March 19, 1972. Most of these songs were composed by 20th century American composers, some of them well known, such as Ernst Bacon. Lou Harrison, and Henry Cowell, but others perhaps not as well known to mainstream audiences, such as Anne Kish and Barry Taxman, among others. The texts for these songs include poems by such famous authors as Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, and A. E. Housman, but also include settings of ancient Chinese and Japanese poems as well as lesser known contemporary American poetry. The list of performers read like a veritable who’s who of the San Francisco Bay Area New Music scene of the 1970s, and includes vocalists Miriam Abramowitsch, John Duykers, and James Tippey, as well as musicians like Alden Gilchrist, Mike Nock, and Wayne Peterson.Genres
Art songsMusical Selections
John Lackland / Donald Walker -- Ceremony after a fire raid [text by Dylan Thomas] / Wayne Peterson -- Songs to A. E. Housman: The starry train ; No more ; A name and a number ; Adam ; In thine eternal Shade / Ernst Bacon -- King David's lament for Jonathan (1941) / Lou Harrison -- How old is song? (1929) / Henry CowellPerformers
Judith Nelson, soprano (John ; How)Robert Strizich, guitar (John)
Bonita De Luca, soprano (Ceremony)
Wayne Peterson, piano (Ceremony)
James Tippey, baritone (Housman)
Shirley Bracco, piano (Housman)
John Duykers, baritone (King)
Robert Krupnick, piano (King ; How)
Donald Cobb, piano (King)
Subjects
Art songsSongs (High voice) with piano
Songs (Medium voice) with piano
Related places
Oakland (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Oakland MuseumWalker, Don, 1941-
Peterson, Wayne, 1927-
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953
Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990
Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003
Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936
Strizich, Robert
Nelson, Judith
De Luca, Bonita
Krupnick, Robert
Duykers, John
Tippey, James
Bracco, Shirley
Cobb, Donald