09.01.1989
KPFA-FM / Charles Amirkhanian
Charles Amirkhanian interviews one of the most important American composer/performers of the past quarter century, Frederic Rzewski (Westfield, 1938), who has lived in Rome and Brussels during that period. The composer of a famous set of piano variations on Victor Jara's “El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido”, Rzewski discusses his recent music and artistic tastes. Rzewski is known for both his remarkable virtuosity as a performer, improviser and composer, and his committed involvement in left politics. How he resolves these in his work is a problem which he has concluded with thoughtfulness and inventiveness of an uncommon sort.
