KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: Philip Glass meets Phalen Tassie, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1989.06.15.A

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

121 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1989-06-15 | broadcast
| 1989-06-15 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian hosts a variety of characters on this show: "Philip Glass meets Phalen Tassie." A series of outlandish guests, including a preposterous pan-musicologist from London, keep a KPFA fundraising drive entertaining, as Amirkhanian presents excerpts from Glass's album, “Dance Nos. 1-5”, and selections from “Phalen Tassie Sings American Contemporary Songs”. Tassie, a former faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, displays her unique vocal delivery in works by Aaron Copland, Otto Luening, John Duke, and other mid-century American composers. The program concludes with Glass' “Façades”, and “Chinese Seasons” by Roger Nixon.

Genres

Minimalism
Art songs

Musical Selections

Dance No. 3 [excerpt] (1979) / Philip Glass -- The Night Will Never Stay [text by Eleanor Farjeon] / [composer unknown] -- Joy [text by Langston Hughes] / Howard Swanson -- Dance Nos. 1-5 [excerpt] / Philip Glass -- A Death Song [excerpt, text by Paul Laurence Dunbar ] / [composer unknown] -- Dance No. 3 [excerpt] (1979) / Philip Glass -- For a Dead Kitten [text by Sarah Henderson Hay] / John Duke -- Rapunzel [ text by Adelaide Crapsey] / John Duke -- I like to see it lap the miles and lick the valleys up [text by Emily Dickinson] / Dorothy Nolan -- If I can stop one heart from breaking [text by Emily Dickinson] / Otto Luening -- I've heard an organ talk sometimes [text by Emily Dickinson] / Aaron Copland -- Going to Heaven [text by Emily Dickinson] / Aaron Copland

Performers

Phalen Tassie, voice (selected songs)
LeRoy Miller, piano (selected songs)
Philip Glass Ensemble: (Dance)
Philip Glass, farfisa organ (Dance)
Michael Reisman, keyboard (Dance)
Iris Hiskey, voice (Dance)
Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone (Dance)
Jack Kripl, (soprano saxophone (Dance)
Richard Peck, alto saxophone (Dance)

Subjects

Minimal music
Art songs
Songs (High voice) with piano

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