KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ The Music of Wayne Peterson, 1 of 2

Analog Audio


Event Type
Interview and Music
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
AM.1971.10.05.A
Program Length
36 min
Part
1 of 2
Dates
| broadcast
| 402 | created
Description
Charles Amirkhanian interviews Wayne Peterson a composer and professor at San Francisco State University. Peterson describes how he began composing jazz music when he was quite young and then after a year in Britain as a Fulbright student his interests turned to classical music.
Genres
20th century classical
Orchestral music
Musical Selections
Sinfonia and Canticle [text by Dylan Thomas] (1970) -- Metamorphoses for Wind Quintet (1967) [cut off]
Performers
Alexander Post, organ
Subjects
20th century classical
Orchestral music
Canticles
Songs (Low voice) with organ
Wind quintets
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.