KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Concert from March 10, 1980, 2 of 2
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
SFC.1980.03.10.BProgram Series
San Francisco Chamber Music SocietyProgram Length
95 minPart
2 of 2Dates
1980-04-01 | broadcast| 1980-03-10 | created
Description
The fifth concert of the 1979-80 season of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society, featured a fascinating mixture of very old and quite new music. The program began with a short talk about, and demonstration of, the piri, an oboe like instrument used in Korean music, given by the noted musicologist, Jonathan Condit. This is all by means of introduction to Isang Yun’s 1971 composition “Piri” which is scored for oboe and performed here by William Bennett. Soprano Judith Nelson then performs Luigi Rossi’s solo cantata “Sopra Conca D’Argento” and Nicholas Lanier’s “Lament of Hero on the Death of Leander” while being accompanied by Laurette Goldberg on harpsichord and Susie Napper on the viola da Gamba. Next is the world premiere of Richard Felciano’s “From and To, With” a distinctly modern composition for violin and piano and performed by the husband and wife duo of Daniel and Machiko Kobialka. Following an intermission the Kobialkas return to the stage for William Bolcom’s “Fancy Tales” followed by two more cantatas, one by Alessandro Scarlatti that also uses the story of Hero and Leander as its theme, and the other by Georg Philipp Telemann. This concert was recorded live at the Fireman’s Fund Forum in San Francisco on March 10, 1980, by Steve Wolfe.Note: the Felciano and Bolcom works were commissioned through the Norman Fromm Composer’s Fund
Genres
Classical music20th century classical
Musical Selections
Fancy Tales: The Phantom Sweetheart ; The Centaurs in Flight ; The Dwarf’s Serenade ; The Abandoned Ferryboat (ca. 1972) (17:46) / William Bolcom -- Su Le Sponde D’Abbido (1693) (9:26) / Alessandro Scarlatti -- Schmeckt und Sehet Unsers Gottes Freudnlickkeit [text by Matthaus Arnold Wilkens] (ca. 1725-26) (11:32) / Georg Philipp TelemannPerformers
Daniel Kobialka, violin (Fancy)Machiko Kobialka, piano (Fancy)
Judith Nelson, soprano (Su ; Schmeckt)
Laurette Goldberg, harpsichord (Su ; Schmeckt)
Susan Napper, viola da gamba (Su ; Schmeckt)
William Bennett, oboe (Schmeckt)
Subjects
17th century classical18th century classical
20th century classical
Chamber music
Violin and piano music
Solo cantatas, Secular (High voice)
Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
Related places
San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
San Francisco Chamber Music SocietyBolcom, William
Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-1725
Telemann, Georg Philipp, 1681-1767
Wilkens, Matthäus Arnold, 1691-1745
Kobialka, Daniel
Kobialka, Machiko
Nelson, Judith
Goldberg, Laurette
Napper, Susie
Bennett, William, 1956-