New Music America: 1982: Program No. 3, 3 of 3

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

WFMT

Identifier

NMA.1982.07.08.2.C

Program Series

New Music America

Program Length

179 min

Part

3 of 3

Dates

1982-07-08 | broadcast
| 1982-07-08 | created

Description

Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the third of six broadcasts from Navy Pier, as part of the fourth New Music America Festival. Charles Amirkhanian hosts, assisted by composer and vocalist, Joan La Barbara. Included in this concert are works by Don Malone, Kyle Gann, Ben Johnston, Jay Clayton, and Michael Byron. Intermission features include a roundup of events from earlier in the day, including a noontime concert of Percy Grainger’s music with pianists Dennis Russell Davies, Yvar Mikhashoff, and Neely Bruce, At the end of the program are segments on microtonal composer Harry Partch, pianist and conductor Dennis Russell Davies, and a brief excerpt from an interview with the “bad boy of music”, George Antheil. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

New music
20th century classical

Musical Selections

Sal-Mar Construction [a sound installation] / Salvatore Martirano -- Ensembles (14:37) / Michael Byron -- Study in an Ancient Phrygian Scale [excerpt] / Harry Partch -- [example of the harmonic canon] -- Ring Around the Moon, a Dance Fantasm for Here and Now [excerpt] (1952–3) / Harry Partch -- Ballet Mécanique [excerpt] (1923-25) (1:15) / George Antheil

Performers

Neely Bruce, piano (Ensembles)
Anthony De Mare, piano (Ensembles)
Peter Gordon, MOOG synthesizer (Ensembles)
Steven Wilson, bass (Ensembles)
Cordier String Quartet: (Ensembles)
Shem Guibbory, violin (Ensembles)
Richard Rood, violin (Ensembles)
Linda Alasco (sp?), viola (Ensembles)
Jeanne LeBlanc, cello (Ensembles)
Kyle Gann, conductor (Ensembles)
Ben Johnston, bass marimba (Study)
Harry Partch, harmonic canon (Study)

Subjects

New music
20th century classical
Electronic music
Octets (Pianos (2), electronic keyboard, violins (2), viola, cello, double bass)
Microtonal music
Unconventional instruments

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

Chicago (Ill.) (was recorded at)
Chicago (Ill.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

New Music America (Festival)
Amirkhanian, Charles
La Barbara, Joan, 1947-
Martirano, Salvatore
Guibbory, Shem
Rood, Richard (Violinist)
LeBlanc, Jeanne
Bruce, Neely
De Mare, Anthony
Gordon, Peter, 1951-
Gann, Kyle
Partch, Harry, 1901-1974
Johnston, Ben
Davies, Dennis Russell
Antheil, George, 1900-1959