KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Pacifica Chamber Players: A Concert of Contemporary and Classical Chamber Music (March 29, 1971), 4 of 4

Analog Audio


Event Type
Music
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
PCP.1971.03.29.c1.D
Program Series
Pacifica Chamber Players
Program Length
115 min
Part
4 of 4
Dates
1971-03-29 | broadcast
| 1971-03-29 | created
Description
Charles Amirkhanian introduces an in-studio concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players recorded at KPFA on March 29, 1971. The concert, (which included a number of world premieres, and perhaps only extant performances), was a blend of classical, contemporary, and avant-garde chamber music, and as such was typical of the musical milieu that was prevalent in Berkeley California in the early 1970s. The concert begins with Harold Moscovitz’s “Double Standard,” an electro-acoustic chamber work that was apparently inspired by an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay. This is followed by a more conventional, albeit contemporary, “Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Viola” by Gordon Jacob. A distinctly experimental and mostly aleatoric piece, “Bear Dance” by John Dinwiddie is performed next (this piece is alternatively identified as “ Improvisational Format No. 1” (1971)). The work is scored for a number of unspecified sound producing and sound modifying objects, which are intended to produce a sequence of attacks and sustained notes of varying durations. For this realization the nine musicians appear to have used a number of percussion instruments, electronics, piano, rolling marbles, and other sound creating devices. The program then takes a turn towards the truly classical with Beethoven’s “Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 11” for piano, clarinet and cello, before concluding with the world premiere of pianist and composer Julian White’s “Music for Eliot” a lengthy work in which readings from T. S. Eliot’s “4th Quartet: Little Gidding” is accompanied by an elegant score for viola and piano.
Genres
New music
Chamber music
Musical Selections
Music for Eliot: Two layers of music and text from Little Gidding, for piano, viola, and two readers [text by T. S. Eliot] (ca. 1971) (38:02) / Julian White [world premiere]
Performers
Pacifica Chamber Players:
Julian White, piano
Carol Garrett, viola
Arlene Sagan, reader
Richard Leininger, reader
Subjects
New music
Chamber music
20th century classical
Monologues with music (Piano and viola)
Poetry -- Readings with music