KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ The Composer: Loren Rush

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

C.1967.11.21

Program Series

The Composer

Program Length

73 min

Dates

1967-11-21 | broadcast
| 1967-11-21 | created

Description

From a recording made on November 21, 1967, composer Loren Rush introduces a program of his own music. After beginning the program with an untitled piano piece that he was still working on, Rush then plays a recording of Dwight Peltzer premiering Rush’s 1963 composition “Hexahedron” which is an aleatoric composition scored for solo piano. Next Rush discusses the characteristics of much of his music and his basic compositional style, followed by a live demonstration of some of the characteristics or events of “Hexahedron,” thus providing a fascinating look at the inner workings of a composer’s mind. The next piece heard is “Nexus 16” for chamber orchestra from a 1965 performance at University of California at Berkeley’s Hertz Hall, with the composer conducting an ensemble of local musicians. Rush concludes the program by highlighting his work as a performer, by playing a recording of Robert Erickson’s “Concerto for Piano and Seven Instruments” in which he is the piano soloist.

Genres

20th century classical
New music

Musical Selections

[excerpt of an unidentified piano piece] (ca. 1964-67) / Loren Rush -- Hexahedron (1962-63) / Loren Rush -- [excerpt of an unidentified piano piece] (ca. 1964) / Loren Rush -- [a demonstration of some of the characters of “Hexahedron”] / Loren Rush -- Nexus 16 (1964) / Loren Rush -- Concerto for Piano and Seven Instruments (1963) / Robert Erickson -- [excerpt of an unidentified piano piece] (ca. 1964) / Loren Rush

Performers

Dwight Peltzer, piano (Hexahedron)
Loren Rush, conductor (Nexus)
San Francisco Conservatory Artist Ensemble: (Concerto)
Loren Rush, piano (Concerto)
Walter Kent, flute (Concerto)
Dale Paulesar (sp?), clarinet (Concerto)
Michael Donovan, bassoon (Concerto)
Larry Sousa, trumpet (Concerto)
George Duke, trombone (Concerto)
John Heard, contrabass (Concerto)
Peter Magadini, percussion (Concerto)
Alan Johnson, conductor (Concerto)

Subjects

20th century classical
New music
Composition (Music)
Piano music
Aleatory music
Instrumental ensembles
Concertos (Piano)

Related places

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

Related Entities

San Francisco Conservatory Artist Ensemble
Rush, Loren, 1935-
Shere, Charles, 1935-2020
Peltzer, Dwight
Hersh, Howard
Erickson, Robert, 1917-1997
Kent, Walter
Donovan, Michael
Sousa Larry
Duke, George
Heard, John, 1938-
Magadini, Pete
Johnson, Alan