KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: An Interview with Philip Corner

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1978.06.14

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

83 min

Dates

1978-06-14 | broadcast
| 1977-12-07 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of New York City’s finest, composer Philip Corner, longtime stalwart of the avant-garde music and art scene in Lower Manhattan. Corner studied briefly with Olivier Messiaen in Paris in 1955, and in 1958 at the New School for Social Research he attended John Cage’s class which included such distinguished budding artists as Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, and others who would make their marks in the lively East Village scene of the 1960s. An articulate and persuasive spokesperson for new music, Corner talks about his own music, such as his food related performances, his association with the Fluxus group of artists, and the role of meditation in many of his compositions, during a late-night conversation recorded at his West Broadway flat on December 7, 1977, in New York City. Musical selections on this program include a performance of Corner’s “Metal Meditations.”

Genres

New music
Minimalism

Musical Selections

[excerpt, unidentified piano study] (0:58) / Conlon Nancarrow -- [excerpt, unidentified piano study] (0:47) / Conlon Nancarrow -- Metal Meditations Symphony [excerpt] (1973) / Philip Corner -- Metal Meditations with Fontana [excerpts] (1973) / Philip Corner & Bill Fontana -- Uhhm (after a deep and Tibetan image), for amplified voice and tape [excerpt] (2:30) / Philip Corner -- Metal Meditations [excerpt] / Philip Corner

Performers

Bill Fontana, resonant metal (Metal)
Philip Corner, voice (Uhhm)

Subjects

New music
Player piano music
Minimal music
Percussion music
Participatory art
Aleatory music
Vocal music
Music for meditation
Fluxus (group of artists)

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

New York (N.Y.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Nancarrow, Conlon, 1912-1997
Steinman, Louise
Banyas, Susan
Corner, Philip
Fontana, Bill, 1947-