KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Oakland Museum Concerts: Chamber Music Concert, February 19, 1971

Digital Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OMC.1971.02.19.c2

Program Series

Oakland Museum Concerts

Program Length

103 min

Dates

1971-09-11 | broadcast
| 1971-02-19 | created

Description

This is the first in a series of four concerts of chamber music put on by the Oakland Museum in the Spring of 1971. The focus of the concerts was works by contemporary California composers, although the programs also included other works , as seen fit by the program director Donald Cobb. Thus this first concert, recorded on February 19, 1971, includes songs by Aaron Copland, Ernst Bacon, and Guilaume de Machaut, as well as chamber works by Lou Harrison, Antonin Dvořák, George Gershwin, and Roy Harris. All performed by local San Francisco Bay Area musicians.

Genres

20th century classical
Art songs

Musical Selections

As It Fell Upon a Day [text by Richard Barnfield] (1923) / Aaron Copland -- Songs: Tels rit au main qui au soir ; Nes que on porroit ; Rose, liz / Guilaume de Machaut -- Saraband (1937) / Lou Harrison -- Prelude, for piano (1937) / Lou Harrison -- Songs: And This of All My Hopes [text by Emily Dickinson] ; The Imperial Heart [text by Emily Dickinson] ; Weeping and Sighing [text by Emily Dickinson] ; Lingering Last Drops [text by Walt Whitman] / Ernst Bacon -- Terzetto, Op. 74 (1887) / Antonin Dvořák -- Songs to Emily Dickinson: Eternity ; A Threadless Way ; The Yellow Sea ; A Spider ; Summer’s Lapse ; Eternity [texts by Emily Dickinson] / Ernst Bacon -- Lullaby, for string quartet (1919-20) / George Gershwin -- Concerto Op. 2, for piano, clarinet, and string quartet (1926) / Roy Harris

Performers

Stephanie Friedman, soprano (As It Fell ; Songs by Machaut ; Songs by Bacon)
Walter Subke, flute (As It Fell ; Songs by Machaut)
Donald Cobb, clarinet (As It Fell ; Songs by Machaut ; Concerto)
Nancy Ellis, viola (Songs by Machaut ; Terzetto ; Lullaby ; Concerto)
Michael Riskin, guitar (Songs by Machaut)
Lois Brandwynne, piano (Saraband ; Prelude ; Concerto)
Donald Cobb, piano (Songs by Bacon)
Nathan Rubin, violin (Terzetto ; Lullaby ; Concerto)
Ronald Erickson, violin (Terzetto ; Lullaby ; Concerto)
Diane Trethowan, soprano (Songs to Emily Dickinson)
Ernst Bacon, piano (Songs to Emily Dickinson)
Sally Kell, cello (Lullaby ; Concerto)

Subjects

20th century classical
19th century classical
14th century classical
Chamber music
Art songs
Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
Piano music
String trios (Violins (2), viola)
String quartets
Sextets (Piano, clarinet, violins (2), viola, cello)