KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ San Francisco Chamber Music Society: A Concert by the Jerome Neff Percussion Ensemble, March 22, 1982, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

SFC.1982.03.22.A

Program Series

San Francisco Chamber Music Society

Program Length

101 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1982-04-27 | broadcast
| 1982-03-22 | created

Description

The sixth concert of the 1981-82 season of the San Francisco Chamber Music Society featured the Jerome Neff Percussion Ensemble performing contemporary works for percussion by such luminaries as Carlos Chávez and John Cage as well as arrangements of many works by lesser known 18th century composers such as Louis Claude Daquin and François Joseph Gossec, among others. Also included is perhaps one of the first performances of “Mallets Aforethought”, a work by Wayne Peterson that was commissioned by the Chamber Music Society. Jerome Neff answers questions from the audience and provides extensive commentary on the works, describing the evolution of percussion music during the 20th century, demonstrating the various instruments, and otherwise enthusiastically promoting everything percussive. This concert was held on March 22, 1982 at the Fireman’s Fund Forum in San Francisco.

Genres

Chamber music
20th century classical

Musical Selections

Toccata for Percussion (1942) (11:15) / Carlos Chávez -- Forever and Sunsmell [text by e.e. cummings] (1942) (6:35) / John Cage -- Le Coucou (”The Cuckoo”) (2:12) / Louis Claude Daquin -- The Lute Player (1:06) / Johann Philipp Kirnberger -- The Weeping Woman (2:17) / Jean-François Dandrieu (?) -- Gavotte (2:03) / François Joseph Gossec -- Rondo [from “Sonata in E”] (2:30) / Johann Christian Bach

Performers

Jerome Neff Percussion Ensemble

Subjects

20th century classical
18th century classical
Chamber music
Percussion ensembles
Songs with instrumental ensemble

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Related places

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

Related Entities

San Francisco Chamber Music Society
Jerome Neff Percussion Ensemble
Neff, Jerome
Chávez, Carlos, 1899-1978
Cage, John
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
Daquin, Louis Claude, 1694-1772
Kirnberger, Johann Philipp, 1721-1783
Dandrieu, Jean François, 1682-1738
Gossec, François Joseph, 1734-1829
Bach, Johann Christian, 1735-1782