KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Music of Leo Ornstein

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1972.12.10

Program Length

42 min

Dates

1972-12-11 | broadcast
| 1972-12-10 | created

Description

In this program, recorded on December 10, 1972 at the Berkley Piano Club in Berkeley California, pianist Michael Sellers performs a number of works by Leo Ornstein. In addition to playing the complete “Poems of 1917”, Sellers also performs three selections from Ornstein’s nine part “Arabesques”. The selections heard are “No. 3, Chant of Hindoo Priests”; “No. 1, The Isle of Elephants”; and “No. 5, A Melancholy Landscape”. Also heard is Ornstein’s “Berceuse” and Debussy’s “Reflets dans l’Eau”, recorded on Ampico rolls by Ornstein himself on November 14, 1971 and played back for this concert on an Ampico grand piano, owned by Sally and Dale Lawrence of Kensington, California.

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

Poem No. 2 [from “Poems of 1917”] (1918) / Leo Ornstein -- Poems of 1917, Op. 41 [complete] (1918) / Leo Ornstein -- Berceuse / Leo Ornstein -- Reflets dans l’Eau [from “Images, Book I”) (1901-05) / Claude Debussy -- Arabesques, Nos. 3, 1, & 5 (ca. 1920) / Leo Ornstein -- Poem No. 8 [from “Poems of 1917”] (1918) / Leo Ornstein

Performers

Michael Sellers, piano (Poems ; Arabesques)
Leo Ornstein, piano (Berceuse ; Reflets dans l’Eau)

Subjects

20th century classical
Piano music
Player piano music

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

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

Related Entities

Ornstein, Leo, 1892-2002
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
Sellers, Michael