KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Remembering Paul Arma, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1988.04.19.A

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

45 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1988-04-19 | broadcast
| 1988-04-19 | created

Description

Paul Arma, was an avant-garde musician, composer, musicologist, sculptor, graphic artist, and member of the French Resistance. Arma who studied with Béla Bartók in his native Hungary, later became a French citizen, and was highly honored by his adopted country, died on November 28, 1987 at the age of eighty three. Charles Amirkhanian and Helga Lohr Bailey, an old friend of Arma, remember the musician, the artist, and the man, in a program featuring his 1980 composition “In Memory of Béla Bartók”. Charles and Helga talk about the life of an artist of whom his friends said that “his mind and his heart were ever alert to any message of love and freedom, under whatever sky it could be detected”. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

In Memory of Béla Bartók (1980) (25:37) / Paul Arma

Performers

Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest
Péter Gazda, conductor

Subjects

20th century classical
Percussion with string orchestra

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

Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest
Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar
Amirkhanian, Charles
Bailey Helga Lohr
Arma, Paul, 1905-1987
Gazda, Péter