KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Michael Sellers Plays the Music of Dane Rudhyar and Leo Ornstein, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1972.XX.XX.03.A

Program Length

73 mins

Part

1 of 2

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

Although any collaborative documentation is missing, and the identification of the compositions attributed to Dane Rudhyar is somewhat tentative, this does appear to be a concert of works by Rudhyar and Leo Ornstein as performed by pianist Michael Sellers. The concert took place in 1972, and is quite likely the KPFA sponsored concert held on March 5, 1972 at the Live Oak Theater in Berkeley California. In addition to what seems to be performances of Rudhyar’s “Granites,” “Pentagram No. 3,” and “Syntony,” two works by Leo Ornstein are also heard, “Poems of 1917” and “Wild Men's Dance” or “Danse Sauvage.”

Genres

20th century classical
New music

Musical Selections

Granites (1929) / Dane Rudhyar -- Pentagram No. 3 “The Release”: No. 1 Gates (3:03) ; No. 2 Gift of blood (1:45) ; No. 3 Pentecost (1:04) ; No. 4 Stars (3:09) ; No. 5 Sunburst (2:11) (1924-26) / Dane Rudhyar -- Syntony: Dithyramb (5:34) ; Eclogue (2:33) ; Oracle (5:01) ; Apotheosis (6:19) (1919–34, rev. 1968) / Dane Rudhyar

Performers

Michael Sellers, piano

Subjects

20th century classical
New music
Piano 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

Rudhyar, Dane, 1895-1985
Sellers, Michael