KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Concerts by Composers: No. 06: Works by Jon English, Candace Natvig, Yasunao Tone, & Gregory Sandow

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

CC.1981.08.03

Program Series

Concerts by Composers

Program Length

54 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Experimental Intermedia Foundation held a series of exciting concerts of avant-garde and electro-acoustic music at Phill Niblock’s loft in the SoHo district of New York City. These concerts were then packaged into a series of hour-long radio programs entitled “Concerts by Composers” and distributed to interested radio stations around the United States. This sixth program in the series features music by Candace Natvig, Jon English and Yasunao Tone, with additional commentary by music critic Gregory Sandow. The program begins with a solo composition by Candace Natvig, which is based on a Pygmy melody and scored for violin and voice. This is followed by a joint composition by Natvig and Jon English in which each sings as well as playing their respective instruments, violin and trombone. The music portion of the program concludes with an excerpt from Yasunao Tone’s “Music Genealogy,” as recorded during a May 1979 concert at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. The work takes it’s text from an ancient Chinese history book’s treatise on music. The program concludes with a talk by music critic Gregory Sandow in which he discusses the differences between the more conservative and academic uptown school of music and the more informal avant-garde downtown school that is reflected in the concerts given at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation . The production and distribution of this program was originally funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, & the Beards Fund.

Genres

New music
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

One, Not Two, for violin and voice (10:23) / Candace Natvig -- Foursome, for trombone, violin, and voices (1979) (7:00) / Candace Natvig & Jon English -- Music Genealogy [excerpt, text from ancient Chinese history book] (16:00) / Yasunao Tone

Performers

Candace Natvig, voice & violin (One ; Foursome)
Jon English, voice & trombone (Foursome)
Yoshiharu Suenobu, reading Chinese text (Music)
Judith Grossman, reading English text (Music)
Yasunao Tone, reed organ (Music)

Subjects

New music
Electro-acoustic
Songs (High voice) with violin
Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble
Avant-garde (Music)
Monologues with music

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

New York (N.Y.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Experimental Intermedia Foundation
Niblock, Phill, 1933-
Natvig, Candace
English, Jon
Tone, Yasunao
Sandow, Gregory
Grossman, Judith
Suenobu, Yoshiharu