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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Music of the World: A Preview of OM 12: A Festival of New Music

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Event Type
Interview and Music
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
AM.2006.12.07
Program Series
Music of the World
Program Length
60 min
Dates
2006-12-07 | broadcast
| 2006-12-07 | created
Description
San Francisco based didjeridu musician and KPFA radio show host, Stephen Kent, presents a preview of OM 12: A Festival of New Music, which was scheduled to be held in December of 2006 in San Francisco. After playing works by Per Nørgård, Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman, all featured composers and musicians at OM 12, Kent is joined in the KPFA studios by composer Peter Sculthorpe. The Tasmanian born and Australian based composer had recently revised his String Quartet No. 16 to include didjeridu and the work was to have its world premier at the Festival with Stephen Kent performing. In this interview the two discuss the influence Australian Aboriginal music has had on Sculthorpe’s work and listen to a couple of his compositions based on native songs and melodies.
Genres
20th century classical
New music
Musical Selections
Wie ein Kind: Lullany [1st movement, texts by Adolph Wölfli and Rainer Maria Rilke] (1979-80) (4:07) / Per Nørgård -- Gläserne Gebilde (4:34) / Markus Stockhausen & Tara Bouman -- String Quartet No. 8: Risoluto Calmo [2nd movement] (3:44) / Peter Sculthorpe -- Djilile (”Whistling-duck on a Billabong (Watering Hole)”), arr. for percussion quartet (1981-90) (6:48) / Peter Sculthorpe -- Earth Cry [excerpt](1986) (7:29) / Peter Sculthorpe -- String Quartet No. 16 [1st movement] (2005) (2:32) / Peter Sculthorpe
Performers
Markus Stockhausen, trumpets (Gläserne)
Tara Bouman, clarinets (Gläserne)
Brodsky Quartet (String Quartet No. 8)
William Barton, didjeridu (Earth)
Tokyo String Quartet (String Quartet No. 16)
Subjects
20th century classical
21st century classical
New music
Aboriginal Australians
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
Clarinet and trumpet music
String quartets
Percussion ensembles
Didjeridu with orchestra
Related places
Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Brodsky String Quartet
Tokyo String Quartet
Tōkyō Gengaku Shijūsōdan
Kent, Stephen
Nørgård, Per, 1932-
Wölfli, Adolph
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926
Stockhausen, Markus
Bouman, Tara
Sculthorpe, Peter, 1929-2014