KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: An Interview with Hans Moldenhauer & Music by Darius Milhaud

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1979.04.18

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

70 min

Dates

1979-04-18 | broadcast
| 1979-04-18 | created

Description

Ron Erickson interviews musicologist Hans Moldenhauer, who with his wife Rosaleen, had recently published a book on Anton Webern. Moldenhauer has also collected a significant archive of documents, manuscripts, and musical scores that encompass the history of music from the Middle Ages through the 20th Century, including a vast amount of materials pertaining to Webern and Schoenberg. The program concludes with a performance of the “Spring” and “Summer” concertos from Darius Milhaud’s “Four Seasons”.

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

Spring (”Concertino de printemps”), for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 135 (1934) / Darius Milhaud -- Summer (”Concertino d’été”), for viola and ensemble of 9 instruments, Op. 311 (1951) / Darius Milhaud

Performers

Szymon Goldberg, violin (Spring)
Ernst Wallfisch, viola (Summer)

Subjects

20th century classical
Music -- History and criticism
Composers
Twelve-tone system
Serialism (Music)
Concertos (Violin with chamber orchestra)
Instrumental ensembles

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

Erickson, Ronald
Moldenhauer, Hans
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974
Goldberg, Szymon, 1909-1993
Wallfisch, Ernst