KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ A Concert by the SONOR Ensemble, Feb. 22, 1984, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1984.02.22.A

Program Length

86 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

| broadcast
| 1984-02-22 | created

Description

Here is a 1984 recording of SONOR Ensemble performing a concert of new music by Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, and Robert Erickson. SONOR served as UCSD’s resident contemporary music ensemble between 1977 and 2006. The ensemble is here conducted by Jean-Charles François for Reynolds’s Archipelago (1983) and John Silber for Erickson’s Taffytime (1983). Bernard Rands’s Canti del Sole (1983) is conducted by the composer and features tenor Paul Sperry.

Genres

20th century classical
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

Archipelago, for orchestra and tape (1982–83) (32:00) / Roger Reynolds

Performers

SONOR Ensemble of the University of California, San Diego
Jean-Charles François, conductor (Archipelago)

Subjects

20th century classical
Electro-acoustic
Computer music
Electronic music
Orchestral music
Chamber orchestra music

Related Entities

SONOR (Musical group)
Reynolds, Roger, 1934-