KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: A Concert of American Music for Violin and Piano, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1982.11.08.B

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

109 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1982-11-08 | broadcast
| 1982-11-08 | created

Description

From 1982, Charles Amirkhanian introduces a concert of violin and piano music by American composers, some obscure and some well known. The music is performed live in the KPFA studio, by the San Francisco duo, violinist Greg Mazmanian and pianist Robert Hagopian. The works range from an early romantic sonata by John Alden Carpenter, to more modern sounding sonatas by Henry Cowell, and Aaron Copland. Also included are two works by Alan Hovhaness, the haunting opus one, “Oror (Lullaby)” and the perhaps better known “Khirgiz Suite”. The concert concludes with “Hexapoda” by Robert Russell Bennett. Charles provides background information about each of the pieces as well as a brief introduction of the performers.

Genres

20th century classical
Chamber music

Musical Selections

Sonata, for violin and piano (1943) (18:15) / Aaron Copland -- Oror (”Lullaby”), Op. 1 (1927) (2:30) / Alan Hovhaness -- Khirgiz Suite, Op. 73 (1951) (5:12) / Alan Hovhaness -- Hexapoda, Five Studies in Jitteroptera: Gut Bucket Gus ; Jane Shakes Her Hair ; Betty & Harold Close Their Eyes ; Jim Jives ; Till Dawn Sunday (1940) (7:37) / Robert Russell Bennett

Performers

Greg Mazmanian, violin
Richard Hagopian, piano

Subjects

20th century classical
Chamber music
Composers -- United States
Sonatas (Violin and piano)
Violin and piano music
Suites (Violin and piano)

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

Amirkhanian, Charles
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
Hovhaness, Alan, 1911-2000
Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981
Mazmanian, Greg
Hagopian, Richard