New Music America: 1982, Program No. 1, 2 of 3
Analog Audio
Event Type
Interview and MusicOrigin
WFMTIdentifier
NMA.1982.07.06.BProgram Series
New Music AmericaProgram Length
169 minPart
2 of 3Dates
1982-07-06 | broadcast| 1982-07-06 | created
Description
Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the first 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. The concert includes electronic music by Tom Cameron, Robert Moran’s “Spin Again” for harpsichords, organs, and percussion, “Autumn Resonance” for piano and delay by Wayne Siegel, and to conclude, Meredith Monk’s work for four voices and organs, “Turtle Dreams.” Also heard, although unfortunately not seen, is a work of avant-garde musical theater by the performing duo of Ed Harkins and Philip Larson known as THE. This work combines strictly choreographed movements by the two, often involving sight gags of one type or another, mixed with electronic and new wave rock music. The intermission features includes a profile of Charles Ives, a talk with John Cage about his sound installation “A Dip in the Lake”, and a look at the only theremin virtuoso ever, Clara Rockmore.Genres
New musicMusical Selections
Voldy (24:55) / THE -- A Dip in the Lake [sound installation] (1978) / John Cage -- Vocalise Op. 34, No. 14 [excerpt] (1912, rev. 1915) / Sergei RachmaninoffPerformers
Clara Rockmore, theremin (Vocalise)Nadia Reisenberg, piano (Vocalise)
Subjects
New musicMixed media (Music)
Performance art
Music theater
Sound installations (Art)
Electronic music
Musique concrète
Music, concrete
Theremin and piano music
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)THE (Performing group)
Amirkhanian, Charles
La Barbara, Joan, 1947-
Larson, Philip
Harkins, Edwin
Cage, John
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943
Rockmore, Clara
Reisenberg, Nadia