Boulez Twentieth Century - TONE

Boulez Twentieth Century 
IRCAM / FR3 (1988)
Nat Lilenstein

TONE

Boulez Twentieth Century - RHYTHM

Boulez Twentieth Century 
IRCAM / FR3 (1988)
Nat Lilenstein

RHYTHM

Boulez Twentieth Century - HARMONY

Boulez Twentieth Century 
IRCAM / FR3 (1988)
Nat Lilenstein

HARMONY

Leonard Bernstein: Teachers & Teaching

Humphrey Burton - 1988

This 60-minute program honors the great American conductor, pianist and composer Leonard Bernstein as a teacher.

It assesses his importance, his credo and his sense of obligation to pass on to following generations what he himself learned and experienced. Leonard Bernstein saw himself as a link in a long chain of musical tradition leading from Koussevitzky, Mitropoulos, Reiner and Copland to himself and on to a younger generation represented by Seiji Ozawa and Michael Tilson Thomas, and to the youngest musicians he particularly enjoyed teaching, those who were still dreaming of a career.

The film shows Leonard Bernstein as the great "roaming rabbi" of music and love, two concepts which were synonyms for him, just like learning and teaching. We see the great musician who offered his knowledge without reservation and was still developing himself in his last years, eager to learn from other artists. The film also shows Bernstein during rehearsals with orchestras, with famous soloists (e.g. Krystian Zimerman), in conversation with friends and pupils and at work in Vienna, New York, Tanglewood and Salzau.

Entrevista a Heinz Holliger

   
KPFA - 07.1987

Charles Amirkhanian

Recorded in July of 1987, during the Cabrillo Music Festival, Charles Amirkhanian interviews oboist, composer, and conductor, Heinz Holliger (Langenthal, 1939), who was one of the main, featured participants during that year’s Festival. Amirkhanian begins by getting the Swiss musician’s impressions of the Festival, which Holliger praises for it’s relaxed atmosphere and large and sophisticated audiences, although he does voice some reservations about the concert’s acoustics and wind-flapped tent. When Amirkhanian praises the oboe player about his virtuosic performances and dramatic gestures the musician claims to be unaware of such tendencies, and replies with the utmost modesty that the oboe is not as difficult to play as some other instruments. The conversation then turns to the availability, or lack there of, of quality music written for the oboe, with Holliger saying he has explored traditional as well as avant-garde classical music in order to find enough good works with which to build his repertoire. The interview then concludes with Holliger talking briefly about his recent efforts at composing and conducting, during which he confesses a current predilection for writing neo-romantic works.

Leonard Bernstein on Charles Ives (Second Symphony)

1.- Leonard Bernstein explains some of Chales Ives (1874-1954) background before performing his second Symphony in Munich heading the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

2-4.- Leonard Bernstein conducts Second Symphony of the american composer Charles Ives with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in 1987.

Charles Dodge, Speaking Of Music at the Exploratorium

Exploratorium - 27.02.1986

Charles Amirkhanian

Charles Dodge (Iowa, 1942) interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's Speaking of Music Series in San Francisco, February 27, 1986.

Charles Amirkhanian hosts an evening with electronic music composer Charles Dodge. Dodges stated intent is to discover new ideas by experimenting with new technology. He elaborates on the technical aspects of his computerized music, which extends human speech into realms not possible without the aid of technology. Along with computer synthesis, Dodge uses the compositional technique of the found object.

Dodge explains in detail his creation of the compositions heard in this program, which include: Speech Songs (using the synthesized speech of Dodge reading poems by Mark Strand); Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (synthesized aria sung by Enrico Caruso); The Waves (composed for Joan La Barbara, based on text from Virginia Woolfs novel); Profile, A Musical Fractal (a musical analogy to a geometrical fractal form).

Entrevista a John Adams

Morning Concert - 20.02.1986

Charles Amirkhanian

Composer John Adams (Worcester, 1947), who was working on his opera, Nixon in China, talks with Charles Amirkhanian on the state of contemporary music. Interspersed in this free-ranging conversation are examples of music brought by both Adams and Amirkhanian to illustrate the topics discussed. Adams' composition, Harmonielehre, commissioned and recorded by the San Francisco Symphony under Edo de Waart, had just been released. The album received a nomination in the contemporary music category for a Grammy Award.

Entrevista a Vladimir Ashkenazy

The Shouth Bank Show - 19.01.1986

Leonard Bernstein - The Making of West Side Story

1985
Chritopher Swann