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New Music America: 1982: Program No. 6, 2 of 3

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

WFMT

Identifier

NMA.1982.07.11.B

Program Series

New Music America

Program Length

149 min

Part

2 of 3

Dates

1982-07-11 | broadcast
| 1982-07-11 | created

Description

Radio station WFMT in Chicago presents the last of six broadcasts from Navy Pier, as part of the fourth New Music America Festival. Charles Amirkhanian hosts, assisted by composer and vocalist, Joan La Barbara, with additional commentary by Neil Tesser and Pauline Oliveros. Included in this concert is Jon Gibson’s “Extensions” a work for solo saxophone and tape which was originally composed as part of dance score for the Lucinda Childs. Followed by a work for voice and tape by Joan La Barbara, that takes as its inspiration a painting by Paul Klee. Also heard is a selection of art rock songs by Jill Kroesen, and three jazz works performed by Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, among others. Intermission features includes a segment on the differences between electronic music and musique concrète, how to record a live concert, and an historical flashback on composer Colin McPhee.

Genres

New music
Popular music

Musical Selections

Heaven (3:30) / Jill Kroesen -- Elizabeth (2:41) / Jill Kroesen -- I am not seeing that you are here (2:56) / Jill Kroesen -- I Really Want to Bomb You (5:13) / Jill Kroesen -- I’m sorry I’m such a weenie (3:03) / Jill Kroesen -- Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestra [excerpt] (1936) / Colin McPhee -- Concerto for Piano and Wind Octet [excerpt] (1928) / Colin McPhee -- Tabuh Teluh [based on a traditional Indonesian melody] / Colin McPhee -- Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccata for Orchestra [excerpt] (1936) / Colin McPhee -- Spanking (3:07) / Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society

Performers

Jill Kroesen, voice (songs)
Ned Sublette, voice, guitar (songs)
Rebecca Armstrong, voice (songs)
Merle Ginsburg, voice (songs)
Tim Schellenbaum, guitar (songs)
Jeff Glenn, guitar (songs)
Chris Berg, guitar (songs)
Blue Gene Tyranny. piano and synthesizer (songs)
Peter Gordon, saxophone and synthesizer (songs)
David Van Tieghem, drums (songs)
Colin McPhee, piano (Tabuh)
Benjamin Britten, piano (Tabuh)
Ronald Shannon Jackson, drums (Spanking)
Henry Scott, trumpet(Spanking)
Zane Massey, saxophone(Spanking)
Melvin Gibbs, bass (Spanking)
Rev. Bruce Johnson, bass (Spanking)
Vernon Reid, guitars (Spanking)

Subjects

New music
Songs with instrumental ensembles
Rock music
Music -- Indonesia
Orchestral music
Concertos (Piano with wind ensemble)
Piano music (4 hands)
Jazz

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.