KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ The Waltz Project

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1979.03.29

Program Length

35 min

Dates

1979-03-29 | broadcast
| 1979-03-29 | created

Description

Charles Amirkhanian is joined in the KPFA studio by John Cobb and Robert Moran to talk about their edition of waltzes by contemporary composers, published by C. F. Peters. Lou Harrison, Milton Babbitt, Joseph Fennimore, Philip Glass, and others were asked to write a waltz for this project and the resulting works vary from the sublime to the strong, with each composer’s personality shining through the constraints of the format. In this program, recorded on March 29, 1979, John Cobb performs a number of these collected waltzes, live on KPFA’s aging Steinway piano. Seventeen of the waltzes in the collection have since been released on Nonesuch Records (D-79011), featuring performances by Cobb, Moran, Alan Feinberg, and Yvar Mikhashoff.

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

Waltz in Memoriam Maurice Ravel (1976) (1:38) / Robert Moran -- A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen (1977) (1:49) / Lou Harrison -- Titles Waltz: After Max Steiner (1977) (1:50) / Joseph Fennimore -- Minute Waltz, or, 3/4 + or - 1/8 (1977) (1:08) / Milton Babbitt -- Waltz for Charlotte Benson (1977) (2:18) / Alan Stout -- Dejavalse (1977) (2:22) / Tom Constanten -- Modern Love Waltz (1977) (2:11) / Philip Glass

Performers

John Cobb, piano

Subjects

20th century classical
Waltzes
Piano music

Acknowledgment

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

Related places

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

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Moran, Robert, 1937-
Cobb, John, 1942-
Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003
Fennimore, Joseph
Babbitt, Milton, 1916-
Stout, Alan
Constanten, Tom
Glass, Philip