KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: The Guitar Music of Bill Horvitz, 1 of 2
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
MC.1975.09.30.c1.AProgram Series
Morning ConcertProgram Length
47 minsPart
1 of 2Dates
1975-09-30 | broadcast| 1975-06-10 | created
Description
This program begins with a selection of six works for solo guitar, composed and performed by Bill Horvitz, at a concert at the University of California in Santa Cruz on June 10, 1975, and broadcast as part of its Morning Concert by KPFA on September 30, 1975. Then there is brief interlude during which program host Charles Amirkhanian makes a fund-raising appeal and introduces a work by Silvestre Revueltas, a few minutes of which is heard before the tape abruptly cuts back to Horvitz playing a selection of unidentified tracks. These might be selections of music he composed for “Calm Down Mother” a musical theater work by Megan Terry, but that can not be confirmed. The sounds of some chatter with the audio engineer, and the fact that the first unidentified track is later repeated twice, makes it clear that these last tracks are the result of a recording session in the KPFA studios, and probably not an air-check recording of the actual Sept. 30, 1975 broadcast. Horvitz was born in 1947, studied with Art Lande, and has had a long career as a virtuoso guitarist who has successfully blended the boundaries of jazz, folk, rock, and contemporary classical guitar. He has collaborated with a veritable who’s who of avant-garde composers and improvisers, including John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Butch Morris, Eugene Chadbourne, and many more.Genres
20th century classicalJazz
Musical Selections
5319 Calm (1974) (3:08) / Bill Horvitz -- Klikitat (1974) (2:30) / Bill HorvitzPerformers
Bill Horvitz, guitarSubjects
Guitar musicAcknowledgment
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)