New Music America: 1982, Program No. 2, 1 of 3
Analog Audio
Event Type
Interview and MusicOrigin
WFMTIdentifier
NMA.1982.07.07.1.AProgram Series
New Music AmericaProgram Length
178 minPart
1 of 3Dates
1982-07-07 | broadcast| 1982-07-07 | created
Description
Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the second 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 begins with a string quartet by John J. Becker, the first deceased composer to have their work performed at a New Music America Festival. This is followed by a work for solo cello by Joseph Paul Taylor and “Tableaux Vivants” a work for flutes and two voices, by Larry Austin. Other pieces heard in this concert is “Centering” by Ruth Anderson which use galvanic skin response sensors to trigger oscillators, and Glenn Branca’s very loud work for nine electric guitars and drums, “Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses “. The action then moves to Lake Michigan where a squadron of boats participate in Charlie Morrow’s environmental sound work “Toot ‘n’ Blink Chicago” by blowing their horns and flashing their lights in accordance with the instructions given over the radio. Intermission features include a profile of John J. Becker as well as a report by Neil Tesser about his work with Kirk Nurock’s Natural Sound Ensemble. This group traveled to the local Chicago Zoo to perform a number of pieces for both human and animal voices, music in the same tradition of Jim Nollman’s “Turkey Song”.Genres
New music20th century classical
Musical Selections
Soundpiece No. 4, for string quartet (1937) (32:28) / John J. Becker -- Cello Sole 1979 (1979) (17:00) / Joseph Paul TaylorPerformers
Cordier String Quartet: (Soundpiece)Shem Guibbory, violin (Soundpiece)
Richard Rood, violin (Soundpiece)
Linda Alasco (sp?), viola (Soundpiece)
Jeanne LeBlanc, cello (Soundpiece)
Julie Green, cello (Cello Solo)
Subjects
New music20th century classical
String quartets
Cello 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)Cordier String Quartet
Amirkhanian, Charles
La Barbara, Joan, 1947-
Becker, John J.
Guibbory, Shem
Rood, Richard (Violinist)
LeBlanc, Jeanne
Taylor, Joseph Paul
Green, Julie (Violoncellist)