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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Performer's Choice: Program No. 1, February 25, 1963, 2 of 3

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Event Type
Music
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
PC.1963.02.25.c1.B
Program Series
Performer's Choice
Program Length
74 min
Part
2 of 3
Dates
1963-02-25 | broadcast
| 1963-02-25 | created
Description
The first in a series of concerts featuring Bay Area composers and performers and broadcast live over KPFA. This concert, recorded at the Berkeley Little Theater on February 25, 1963, presents works by Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Salvatore Martirano, Pauline Oliveros, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as a group improvisation based on a schema by Loren Rush. Performing artists include pianists Dwight Peltzer and Nathan Schwartz, flutist Jean Zeiger Cunningham, baritone Milton Williams (also playing string bass), and percussionists Loren Rush and John Chowning. (from KPFA Folio)
Genres
20th century classical
Art songs
Musical Selections
Die Aufgeregten (”The Excited Ones”) [text by Gottfried Keller, from Op. 3] (1903) (2:45) / Arnold Schoenberg -- Traumleben (”Dream Life”) [ text by Julius Hart, from Op. 6] (1903) (2:55) / Arnold Schoenberg -- Hochzeitslied (”Wedding Song”) [text by Jens Peter Jacobsen, trans. by Robert F. Arnold, from Op. 3] (ca. 1901) (1:45) / Arnold Schoenberg -- Warnung (”Warning”) [text by Richard Dehmel, from Op. 3] (1899-1903) (2:15) / Arnold Schoenberg -- Piano Sonata No. 1 (1946) (10:40) / Pierre Boulez
Performers
Nathan Schwartz, piano (Songs)
Milton Williams, baritone (Songs)
Dwight Peltzer, piano (Sonata)
Subjects
20th century classical
Art songs
Avant-garde (Music)
New music
Songs (Medium voice) with piano
Sonatas (Piano)
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951
Keller, Gottfried, 1819-1890
Hart, Julius, 1859-1930
Jacobsen, J. P. (Jens Peter), 1847-1885
Arnold, Robert Franz, 1872-1938
Dehmel, Richard, 1863-1920
Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016
Schwartz, Nathan
Williams, Milton (Baritone)
Peltzer, Dwight