KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Performer's Choice: Program No. 5, Jan. 4, 1964, 1 of 3
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
PC.1964.01.04.AProgram Series
Performer's ChoiceProgram Length
87 minPart
1 of 3Dates
1964-01-04 | broadcast| 1964-01-04 | created
Description
The fifth in KPFA’s Performer's Choice concert series, recorded in San Francisco, on January 4, 1964. The concert features works, several of which are first performances, by a selection of California based composers such as Peter Ford, John Chowning, Gordon Mumma, and Phil Winsor. Also included are more familiar works such as “Three Page Sonata,” for piano by the pioneering American composer Charles Ives, and the only work by a non-American composer, “Impromptu” by the Swede Folke Rabe. From 1963 to 1964 KPFA presented five such concerts featuring contemporary classical compositions, many by San Francisco based composers, including Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, and Gordon Mumma, as well as works by more internationally known composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Performer’s Choice concert series served as the springboard for the careers of a number of the young Californian composers featured here.Genres
New musicChamber music
Musical Selections
Discontinuosity, for piano and percussion (1962) (2:23) / Peter Ford -- Two Studies, for percussion (8:38) / John Chowning -- Meanwhile: A Twopiece, for prepared piano, percussion, slide whistle, and tape (1961) (7:43) / Gordon MummaPerformers
Peter Ford, piano (Discontinuosity)John Chowning, percussion (Discontinuosity ; Two)
Harry Bartlett, percussion (Discontinuosity)
Ed Applebaum, conductor (Discontinuosity)
Stephen Schermerhorn, percussion (Two)
Loren Rush, piano and percussion (Meanwhile)
Pauline Oliveros, percussion and piano (Meanwhile)
Subjects
New musicChamber music
Percussion and piano music
Percussion ensembles
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Prepared piano and percussion music
Related places
San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Shere, Charles, 1935-2020Ford, Peter, 1931-
Chowning, John M.
Mumma, Gordon, 1935-
Glasow, Glenn, 1924-2002
Bartlett, Harry R.
Applebaum, Edward
Schermerhorn, Stephen
Rush, Loren, 1935-
Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-2016