Entrevista a Luc Ferrari

06.1972

Charles Amirkhanian

Host of KPFA-FM's Ode to Gravity series Charles Amirkhanian, interviewed French composer Luc Ferrari (Paris, 1929) at his home in Paris in June of 1972. The night before the interview, Ferrari had a world premiere performance of his "Monologos I" at the Opera Comique. Ferrari discusses his compositional practices and experiments in voice and tape delay that developed into Monologos I. The two also talk about Ferrari's activities since 1970 which included the writing of his book "Les réalisable et le journal d'un autobiographe", a work of text compositions and part autobiography; and creating the first sonic chapter of his "ecological" series in observation, "Allô ici la terre". The interview also takes a philosophical turn as Ferrari describes the non-existence of "truth" or any correct "system", political or otherwise, and how we must devise many different ways of going about the act of living.

Musical selections during the program include:

Monologos I [live recording]

Performers: Luc Ferrari, electronics; Elise Ross, voice

Entrevista a Alvin Curran

Ode to Gravity - 17.05.1972

KPFA-FM / Charles Amirkhanian 

Charles Amirkhanian presents an Ode to Gravity program featuring an interview with the composer Alvin Curran (Rhode Island, 1938) from his home in Rome. Selections from this informal talk with Curran are interspersed with musical excerpts, with a special emphasis on the group Curran helped found in the mid-1960s, Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV). The composer discusses his co-founders, who included Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and Alan Bryant, and describes the synthesis of the group, its working methods, and the situation that led to its disbandment. Curran further describes the group’s second incarnation, MEV2, and briefly discusses his own recent work, Music for Every Occasion. The program concludes with selections by David Ahlstrom and Robert Erickson, released on an Orion disc New Music for Trumpet featuring Jack Logan.

Leonard Bernstein's rare short film tribute to Stravinsky (1972)

ITN Source - 1972 
Humphrey Burton

Discover a rare short film tribute in which Leonard Bernstein talks about all three works performed in the new Bernstein "Homage to Stravinsky". This video also features documentary sequences of Stravinsky himself.

Leonard Bernstein: Young People's Concerts (18 vídeos)

Young People's Concerts

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Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - A personal introduction by Leonard Bernstein

UNITEL / AMBERSON - 1972 
Humphrey Burton

Artistas:
Leonard Bernstein, Narrator
Christa Ludwig, Contralto
René Kollo, Tenor

Israel Philharmonic, Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein, Conductor

Duración:
42:04

Información sobre grabación
En directo / en estudio:
Live

Ubicación de grabación:
Tel Aviv, Israel

Producido por:
John McClure, Recording Producer
Fritz Buttenstedt, Executive Producer

Formato
AAA PCM Stereo

Entrevista a Carlos Chávez

KPFA - 14.09.1971
Charles Amirkhanian

Charles Amirkhanian and George Cleve talk with noted Maestro, Carlos Chávez (Ciudad de México, 1899 - Coyoacán, 1978), just before his appearance as conductor and musical director of the 1971 Cabrillo Music Festival in Aptos California. Chavez talks about his musical careers, as a composer, conductor, and founder of the Mexico City Symphony. He tells about the time he conducted a work by Varese in Mexico in 1924. And he talks about his work as music director of the Cabrillo Music Festival. This program, recorded during a live broadcast on the afternoon of July 29, 1971 at KPFA, also includes recordings of the first movement of H.P. (1927) by Chavez, as well as a 1970 Festival recording of the composers Invención for Piano and Discovery for Orchestra.

Harry Partch: "Delusion of the fury" (a ritual of dream and delusion)

Harry Partch (Oakland, 1901 - Encinitas, 1974)

"Delusion of the Fury" was his magnum opus; a lifetime of instrument-invention and ideas of ritual theater were poured into this giant work.

Stokowski at 88 - TV Documentary

Tom Slevin, director & producer

To mark Leopold Stokowski's 88th birthday in 1970, a television documentary surveyed his life and career. In this programme, we see him rehearsing his own American Symphony Orchestra; dictating a letter to Andrzej Panufnik regarding the first performance of the composer's 'Universal Prayer'; auditioning a young violinist in his New York apartment; receiving a prestigious Gold Medal award from the American Academy; travelling to England by boat (he never flew) to record Beethoven's 5th Symphony with the London Philharmonic (not the London Symphony as incorrectly stated) for the Decca / London 'Phase-4' label, with producer Tony'D'Amato and chain-smoking engineer Arthur Lilley; watching a baseball game between the New York Philharmonic and American Symphony Orchestra; and being interviewed by Glenn Gould for Canadian radio. 

The narrator mis-pronounces the Maestro's name (it should sound as if spelt "Stokoffski") but otherwise this is a well-produced programme. Remarkably, Stokowski lived to the ripe old age of 95 and was still energetically making records right up until a few weeks before he died in September 1977. 

Incidentally, to set the record straight, he was born Leopold Stokowski on 18 April 1882, son of Kopernik Joseph Boleslaw Stokowski and his wife Annie-Marion, at 13 Upper Marylebone Street (now New Cavendish Street) in London (see his Wiki bio entry). At no stage in his life or career did he ever change his name from or to "Stokes." This was a nonsense dreamt up by his detractors once he'd achieved international fame in the 1930s.

Mauricio Kagel - Repertoire aus Staatstheater (1967/70)

In einer Fernsehfilmproduktion spielen das Kölner Ensemble für Neue Musik und Mauricio Kagel "Repertoire" aus "Staatstheater" Szenische Komposition von 1967/70.

Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna with Leonard Bernstein (1970)

CBS / AMBERSON / ORF - 1970 
Humphrey Burton

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday, famed maestro Leonard Bernstein honors the life and work of the German composer in this tribute conducted, performed, written and narrated by Bernstein. The musical portrait features excerpts from Bernstein's performances of Beethoven's work, including the Ninth Symphony's "Ode to Joy," scenes from "Fidelio" and "Piano Concerto No. 1" with the Vienna Philharmonic.