KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ojai Festival: 1979 Ojai Festival: Lehrstück
Analog Audio
Event Type
MusicOrigin
KPFAIdentifier
OJF.1979.05.20.1Program Series
Ojai FestivalDates
| broadcast| 1979-05-20 | created
Description
A series of clips from the last day of the 1979 Ojai Festival featuring a performance of “Lehrstück”, a piece of musical theater by Bertolt Brecht and Paul Hindemith, that includes participation by the audience in singing the choral parts, as well as an extended clown scene performed by members of the Firesign Theater.Genres
20th century classicalOrchestral music
Musical Selections
Lehrstück [excerpts, text by Bertolt Brecht] (1929) / Paul HindemithPerformers
Lukas Foss, conductorWerner Klemperer, narrator
Byron Wright, tenor
Michael Gallup, baritone
Irvine Master Chorale
John Alexander, director
California State University Northridge Wind Orchestra
David Whitwell, director
Firesign Theater :
Phil Austin
Peter Bergman
David Ossman
Philip Proctor
Subjects
20th century classicalOrchestral music
Music theater
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra
Participatory art
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
Ojai (Calif.) (was recorded at)Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Ojai, Calif. FestivalIrvine Master Chorale
California State University Northridge Wind Orchestra
Firesign Theatre (Performing group)
Foss, Lukas, 1922-
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Klemperer, Werner
Wright, Byron (Vocalist)
Gallup, Michael
Alexander, John, 1944-
Whitwell, David, 1937-
Austin, Phil
Bergman, Peter
Ossman, David
Proctor, Philip