KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Tuesday Morning Club: An Hour in the KPFA Music Department Office, 1970
Analog Audio
Event Type
Other FindsOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
AM.1970.03.24Program Series
Tuesday Morning ClubProgram Length
67 minDates
1970-03-24 | broadcast| 1970-03-23 | created
Description
Charles Amirkhanian fills in for the absent Julian White for this edition of KPFA’s Tuesday Morning Club. Rather than playing a selection of elegant classical music, Amirkhanian takes this opportunity to give listeners a feel for what the Music Department Office was like during a typical day in 1970. Fielding phone calls from Liam O’Gallagher, moving boxes, answering questions for staff and volunteers, it's all here in this fascinating peek behind the KPFA curtain. Also included are musical works by Colin McPhee, a Canadian composer who became one of the first Western ethnomusicologists to study the gamelan music of Bali, and his fellow ultra-modern composer and publisher, Henry Cowell.Genres
Field recordings20th century classical
Musical Selections
Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestra (1936) (17:07) / Colin McPhee -- Fiddler’s Jig, for violin and string orchestra (1952) (2:00) / Henry Cowell -- Collage [a mix of spoken word and music] (1970)Performers
Eastman Rochester Orchestra (Tabuh)Howard Hanson, conductor (Tabuh)
Vienna Orchestral Society (Fiddler’s)
F. Charles Adler, conductor (Fiddler’s)
Subjects
Field recordingsAmbient sounds
Orchestral music
Violin with string orchestra
Jigs (Violin with strings orchestra)
Text-sound compositions
Soundscapes (Music)
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
Eastman-Rochester Symphony OrchestraVienna Orchestral Society
Amirkhanian, Charles
O'Gallagher, Liam
McPhee, Colin, 1900-1964
Hanson, Howard, 1896-1981
Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965
Adler, F. Charles (Frederick Charles), 1889-1959