New Music FM II: A Festival in Four Movements, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KSJN

Identifier

AM.1983.07.19.B

Program Length

152 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1983-07-19 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

From KSJN (St. Paul, Minnesota) host Melinda Ward, of the Walker Art Center, introduces interviews and music by composers that were featured during the 1980 New Music America Festival in St. Paul Minnesota. This includes lengthy excerpts from Robert Ashley’s opera “Perfect Lives (Private Parts) and Alvin Curran’s mixed media piece “Small Circles Great Plains”. Also included is a free improvisation with violinist Leroy Jenkins and saxophonist Oliver Lake, works for piano by William Duckworth and Michael Nyman, as well as works by Libby Larsen and Stacey Bowers. This was the second of four nationally broadcast programs, each emanating from one of the four previous host cities of the New Music America Festival, and was meant as a preview to the 1983 Festival which was held in Washington D. C. in October 1983.

Genres

New music
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

A Verse Record of My Peonies [end of piece, text by Masaoka Shiki] (1980) / Libby Larsen -- A Neat Slice of Masterwork (ca. 1979) (29:03) / Michael Nyman -- Small Circles Great Plains [part 1] (16:10) / Alvin Curran

Performers

Vern Sutton, tenor (Verse)
Michael Nyman, piano (Neat)
Michael Nyman Band (Neat)
Alvin Curran, piano (Small)

Subjects

New music
Electronic music
Songs with instrumental ensembles
Monologues with music
Piano music
Minimal music
Piano with instrumental ensemble
Piano and electronic music
Mixed media (Music)

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Related places

St. Paul (Minn.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Michael Nyman Band
Ward, Melinda
Larsen, Libby
Masaoka, Shiki, 1867-1902
Sutton, Vern
Nyman, Michael
Amirkhanian, Charles
Curran, Alvin S., 1938-