KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: An Interview with Phil Winsor, 1981
Digital Audio
Event Type
InterviewsOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
OTG.1981.08.24.c2Program Series
Ode To GravityProgram Length
146 minDates
1981-08-24 | broadcast| 1981-03-19 | created
Description
Recorded in Chicago, in March of 1981, Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer Phil Corner about his music and career. Born in Morris, Illinois, in 1938, Winsor received his initial musical education at Illinois Wesleyan University and San Francisco State University before doing some graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and doctoral studies at the University of Illinois. While in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s Winsor also worked for several years at KPFA. In this interview Winsor and Amirkhanian introduce a wide selection of Winsor’s compositions from the 1960s and early 70s, including chamber works, electro-acoustic compositions, as well as pieces of pure electronic music. They also discuss Winsor’s impressions of KPFA, what it was like as a student of Robert Erikson, as well as his own experiences teaching at DePaul University in Chicago. Winsor mentions some of his frustrations with conservative academia, as well as the change in expectations and familiarity with traditional orchestral instrumentation among his current students.Note: It is uncertain if the organ piece is Orgel I or Orgel II, although the latter seems the most likely.
Genres
New musicElectro-Acoustic / Electronic
Musical Selections
Melted Ears, for two pianos (1967) (12:58) -- Gorge, for double bass and tape (1969) (13:29) -- Orgel II, for organ and tape (1968) (12:46) -- Conflations, for chamber orchestra (1964) (5:08) -- Coronation, for four amplified trumpets (1966) (6:35) -- Sound Study III: The Bride Stripped Bare, for tape [soundtrack to a film by Tom Palazzolo] (1965-69) (11:46) -- Flos Harmonicus II, for amplified string quartet (1971) (14:35) -- Lullaby, for MOOG synthesizer [excerpt] (1972) (8:50) -- Kyrie Eleison, for double choir and tape [excerpt] (1969-77) (3:13)Performers
William Albright, piano ; organ (Melted ; Orgel)Thomas Warburtan, piano (Melted)
Bertram Turetzky, double bass (Gorge)
RAI Orchestra of Rome (Conflations)
Ferruccio Scalia, conductor (Conflations)
The Fromm Players: (Coronation)
P. Chapman, trumpet (Coronation)
R. Mcgregor, trumpet (Coronation)
A. Briggs, trumpet (Coronation)
J. Simpson, trumpet (Coronation)
Phil Winsor, conductor (Coronation)
Mills College String Quartet (Flos)
Nathan Rubin violin (Flos)
Subjects
New musicElectronic music
Electro-acoustic
20th century classical
Music -- Instruction and study
Piano music (Pianos (2))
Double bass music
String quintets (Double basses (5))
Organ music
Organ and electronic music
Chamber orchestra music
Brass quartets (Trumpets (4))
Electronics with instrumental ensemble
Motion picture music
String quartets
Synthesizer music
Kyrie eleison (Music)
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with electronics
Drone music
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.Related places
Chicago (Ill.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
RAI Orchestra of RomeRadiotelevisione italiana. Orchestra sinfonica di Roma
Fromm Players
Mills College String Quartet
Amirkhanian, Charles
Winsor, Phil, 1938-2012
Albright, William
Warburton, Thomas, 1940-
Turetzky, Bertram, 1933-
Scalia, Ferruccio
Rubin, Nathan, 1929-