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A recording of a live broadcast made by KPFA and broadcast over the NPR satellite of the second concert of the 1981 New Music America Festival. This concert features New Music performed by the Arch Ensemble of Berkeley, California’s well-known contemporary music group directed by Robert Hughes. The program includes works by Charles Amirkhanian, Robert Erickson, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, and Mel Graves. Also included are four one minute movies, produced by Ralph Records, directed by Graeme Whifler, with soundtracks by the avant-garde rock group, The Residents. Also heard during the intermission is a tribute to Robert Erickson, including a brief interview with the composer and a discussion with three of his former students. This concert, which was held at the Japan Center Theater in San Francisco on June 8, 1981, concludes with a composition by Julius Eastman for 10 celli.

In this first part, we hear the introduction to the festival and second concert, as well as a short commentary by conductor Robert Hughes on the Arch Ensemble, who perform the first piece of the concert, "Egusquiza to Falsetto", a theater piece collaboration by Charles Amirkhanian and Margaret Fisher.

Genres

New music

Subjects

New music
Announcements
Music festivals

Related places

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

Related Entities

New Music America (Festival)
Arch Ensemble
Rathe, Steve
Stone, Carl, 1953-
Hughes, Robert, 1933-2022