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A recording of a live broadcast made by KPFA and broadcast over the NPR satellite of the second concert of the 1981 New Music America Festival. This concert features New Music performed by the Arch Ensemble of Berkeley, California’s well-known contemporary music group directed by Robert Hughes. The program includes works by Charles Amirkhanian, Robert Erickson, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, and Mel Graves. Also included are four one minute movies, produced by Ralph Records, directed by Graeme Whifler, with soundtracks by the avant-garde rock group, The Residents. Also heard during the intermission is a tribute to Robert Erickson, including a brief interview with the composer and a discussion with three of his former students. This concert, which was held at the Japan Center Theater in San Francisco on June 8, 1981, concludes with a composition by Julius Eastman for 10 celli.

In this fifth part, we hear two works by Mel Graves performed by the Arch Ensemble: "Scent of the Incense", for voice, bassoon and tape, and "Memories", for voice, bassoon and tape.

Genres

20th century classical
New music

Musical Selections

Scent of the Incense, for voice, bassoon and tape [text by Pilar Titus] (1981) (6:10) / Mel Graves -- Memories, for voice, bassoon and tape [text by Pilar Titus] (1981) (7:33) / Mel Graves

Performers

Tom Buckner, voice
Julie Feves, bassoon
Phill Sawyer, pre-recorded tape engineer

Subjects

20th century classical
New music
Songs (High voice) with bassoon
Songs (High voice) with electronics

Related places

San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

New Music America (Festival)
Graves, Mel, 1946-
Titus, Pilar
Buckner, Thomas, 1941-
Feves, Julie
Sawyer, Phill