KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Soundscapes, Symphonies, & Sonatas

Analog Audio

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Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1970.05.20

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

62 min

Dates

1970-05-20 | broadcast
| 1970-05-20 | created

Genres

20th century classical
Field recordings

Musical Selections

[excerpt of pre-circumcision dance music of the Diola of Senegal] -- [excerpt of children’s hunting call & drums announcing death of tribe member of the Topoke people of the Congo] -- Procession Music [from “Ceremony of Us”] / Charles Amirkhanian -- Sonata in G Minor, Op. 105, for piano [1st movement] (1821) / Felix Mendelssohn -- Symphony for Voices on Poems of Walt Whitman (1935) / Roy Harris -- Around the Corner Variations / Diter Rot & Emmett Williams -- Sonatina for Cello and Piano (1934) / Bernard Wagenaar -- [Brooklyn Township, Oakland, California] / Charles Amirkhanian -- [downtown, Berkeley, California] / Charles Amirkhanian

Performers

Rena Kyriakou, piano (Sonata)
Westminster Choir (Symphony)
John Finley Williamson, conductor (Symphony)
Naoum Benditzky, cello (Sonatina)
Bernard Wagenaar, piano (Sonatina)

Subjects

20th century classical
Ambient sounds
Field recordings
Vocalises with percussion
Sonatas (Piano)
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied
Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Sonatas (Cello and piano)
City sounds

Acknowledgment

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