KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Trois Gymnopedies by Erik Satie
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
P.SAT.ERI.01Program Length
10 minDates
1966-05-15 | broadcast| 402 | created
Description
Recorded sometime around 1966, this is a performance by a young Peter Winkler, of Erik Satie’s well known composition for solo piano, “Trois Gymnopedies.” Winkler, was a student at University of California at Berkeley as well as a worker at KPFA, who later went on to get his Masters at Princeton, and after a stint as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, joined the faculty at Stony Brook University in New York. A composer as well as educator and concert pianist, Winkler has had a stellar career, and continues to thrill audiences world wide with both his original compositions as well as his extensive repertoire of classical compositions such as the one included here.Genres
Classical musicMusical Selections
Trois Gymnopedies, for piano (1888) (9:50) / Erik SatiePerformers
Peter Winkler, pianoSubjects
19th century classicalPiano music
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Satie, Erik, 1866-1925Winkler, Peter, 1943-