KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Oakland Museum Concerts: Songs Concert, 3 of 3
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
OMC.1972.03.19.c2.CProgram Series
Oakland Museum ConcertsProgram Length
116 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
King David's lament for Jonathan (1941) / Lou Harrison -- How old is song? (1929) / Henry CowellPerformers
John Duykers, baritone (King )Robert Krupnick, piano (King ; How)
Donald Cobb, piano (King)
Judith Nelson, soprano (How )
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 MuseumAmirkhanian, Charles
Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003
Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965
Krupnick, Robert
Duykers, John
Nelson, Judith
Cobb, Donald