KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: The Music of David Cope (Jun. 23, 1978), 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1978.06.23.B

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

149 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1978-06-23 | broadcast
| 1978-06-23 | created

Description

In a program recorded on June 23, 1978, Charles Amirkhanian interviews San Francisco born composer David Cope. Born in 1941, Cope was at the time of this recording, a member of the faculty of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, but was for one year only teaching at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of “New Directions in Music,” “New Music Composition,” and “New Music Notation,” in which he sets out to catalogue new music notation in an attempt to codify or standardize the growing number of innovative notation schemes.
This program features an interview with Cope in which he describes his recent projects and defends the Midwestern music scene, citing composers John Marshall, Walter Mays, and pioneering American avant-garde composer John J. Becker as examples of Midwestern excellence. Also heard in this program are performances of Cope’s “Margins,” for trumpet, cello, percussion and two pianos, “Arena,”for cello and tape, “Triplum,” for flute and piano, and “Cycles” for flute and contrabass. The last hour of the program is then dedicated to Cope’s 1976 LP, “Navajo Dedications,” which features instrumental and electronic music inspired by the history and traditions of the Navajo people, including the work “Rituals” in which the composer performs on cello, wind chimes, bass drum and vocals, simultaneously.

Genres

20th century classical
Chamber music

Musical Selections

Vortex, for piano, flute, trombone, percussion, celesta, and voice (1976) (15:54) -- Rituals, for cello, wind chimes, bass drum, and vocals (1976) (6:24) -- Parallax, for piano and voice (1974) (12:21) -- Teec Nos Pos, for electronics (1974) (8:29)

Performers

William Brice, flute (Vortex)
Sam Minge, trombone (Vortex)
Bill Albin, percussion (Vortex)
Mark Benson, percussion (Vortex)
Tim Paxton, percussion (Vortex)
Jerome Stanley, piano (Vortex)
Mark Schneider, celesta and vocals (Vortex)
Winford C. Cummings, conductor (Vortex)
David Cope, cello, chimes, drum, and voice (Rituals)
Marilyn Mangold Garst, piano and voice (Parallax)

Subjects

20th century classical
Chamber music
Instrumental music
Piano music
Electronic music

Related places

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

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Cope, David
Brice, William (Musician)
Minge, Sam
Albin, Bill
Benson, Mark (Musician)
Paxton, Tim
Stanley, Jerome
Schneider, Mark (Musician)
Cummings, Winford C.
Garst, Marilyn Mangold