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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Alvin Curran in Italy, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1973.02.07.B

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

81 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1973-02-07 | broadcast
| 1972-05-17 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian presents an Ode to Gravity program featuring an interview with the composer Alvin Curran from his home in Rome. Selections from this informal talk with Curran are interspersed with musical excerpts, with a special emphasis on the group Curran helped found in the mid-1960s, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV). The composer discusses other original members of the group, including Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and Alan Bryant, and describes the synthesis of the group, its working methods, and the situation that led to its disbandment. Curran further describes the group’s second incarnation, MEV2, and briefly discusses his own recent work, “Music for Every Occasion.” The program concludes with selections by David Ahlstrom and Robert Erickson, featuring Jack Logan on trumpet

Genres

Avant-garde
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

[excerpts of unidentified electronic music] -- Under the Fig Tree [from “Music for Every Occasion”] (16:23) / Alvin Curran -- Scherzo, for solo cut-muted trumpet, winds and percussion (5:39) / David Ahlstrom -- Oceans [excerpt] (1970) (3:56) / Robert Erickson

Performers

Robert Emile, conductor (Scherzo)
Peter Middleton, flute (Scherzo)
Frederick Baker, flute (Scherzo)
John Grimes, percussion (Scherzo)
Frank McCarty, percussion (Scherzo)
John Garvey, piano (Scherzo)
Shirley Wong, piano, celesta (Scherzo)
Alan Goldman, double bass (Scherzo)
Jack Logan, trumpet (Scherzo ; Oceans)

Subjects

Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Avant-garde (Music)
Ambient sounds
Trumpet with instrumental ensemble

Related places

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

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Curran, Alvin S., 1938-
Ahlstrom, David, 1927-
Logan, Jackie Dale, 1944-
Erickson, Robert, 1917-1997
Emile, Robert
Middleton, Peter
Baker, Frederick
Grimes, John (Percussionist)
McCarty, Frank
Garvey, John, 1921-
Wong, Shirley (Pianist)
Goldman, Alan (Bassist)