KPFA FM94 Listener Sponsored Radio for Northern and Central California 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley CA 94704 MUSIC DEPARTMENT AVANT-GARDE RETROSPECTIVES Recent Radio Concert Programs Produced by Richard Friedman from 1988-1992 29 December 1988 Stockhausen in the 60's Kurzwellen, Kontakte, Hymnen 30 December 1988 Olivier Messiaen is 80! Excerpts and discussion of: Quartet for the End of Time and, Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus 6 January 1989 Epiphany Odd assortment of epiphanous music from Messiaen, Hildegard, Paert (Stabat Mater and De Profundis), Koechlin, Schubert, and Stockhausen. 19 January 1989 Music of Alban Berg String Quartet (1910), Lyric Suite (1926), Violin Concerto (1935) 30 January 1989 Loose Tongues Stockhausen: Stimmung 2 February 1989 New Music from Germany on WERGO Detlev MŸller-Siemens: Piano Concerto Reinhard Febel: Variations for Orchestra W. von Schweinitz: Messe 20 February 1989 Xenakis-Varese-Stockhausen-Penderecki 1954-65 Xenakis: Metastasis, Pithoprakta, Akrata Varese: Deserts Stockhausen: Gruppen Penderecki: Threnody 30 March 1989 The Passions of Paert & Penderecki: Penderecki: Passion according to St Luke Paert: Passio 24 August 1989 New Re-Releases on CD Moondog Takemitsu: Hika, Eclipse, Le son - calligraphie Mayuzumi: Prelude Cage: Quartet 1950 Penderecki: Magnificat(Gloria) 28 December 1989 Penderecki & Lutoslawski Penderecki: Threnody, Resurrection Lutoslawski: Livre pour Orchestre, Mi Parti, Novelette 22 February 1990 Ligeti: Cello Concerto Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto Cage: 30 pieces for string quartet Per Norgaard: Symphony #4 Messiaen: Couleurs de la citŽ cŽleste 29 November 1990 Olivier Messiaen, St. Francis, and the birds The wood-thrush, from Canyons Oiseaux Exotiques La PrŽche, from St. Francis L'Ascension 3 January 1991 Best New Recordings of the Year Berio: Corale [RCA] Stockhausen: Mantra {New Albion] Ives: Orchestral Music [Koch] Perotin: Hilliard Ens. [ECM] Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie, 3 Pieces Op. Posth. (1910) [Koch] 19 April 1991 The Arditti Quartet Xenakis: Tetras Gubaidulina: Quartet Interview with Irvine Arditti and Jorge Lederman Scelsi: Quartet #2 25 April 1991 The Quartets of Giacinto Scelsi (Arditti Quartet) Scelsi: Quartets 1 thru 5 [Editions Salabert] 26 June 1991 Music for Solo Instrument, Alone Pieces for flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, clarinet, viola, double bass, voice, bassoon, cello, violin, tuba, and recorder, by Varese, Loevendie, Donatoni, Stockhausen, Scelsi, Xenakis, Berio, de Pablo, Lippe, and Andriessen. [SONY, Attaca, ADDA, DG, Neuma, Philips, Disques Montaigne] 25 July 1991 4 Italians - Post-WWII Avant Garde in Italy. Scelsi: KYA (1959) [ADDA] Maderna: Aura (1972) [DG] Berio: Cries of London (1974) [London] Berio: Corale (1981) [SONY] Donatoni: Fili, Le Ruisseau sur l'Escalier, Feria, Still (1980-85) [ADDA] 22 August 1991 XENAKIS Pithoprakta , Echange, Palimpset, Oresteia 29 August 1991 Boulez, Revisited DON, Figures, Doubles, Prismes [Erato] Rituel in Memoriam Maderna, Eclat/Multiples [SONY] 26 September 1991 Piano Music / Music for Piano Duckworth: Time Curve Preludes (excerpts) Markevitch: Variations on a Theme of Handel Scelsi: Five Incantations Shostakovitch: 24 Preludes & Fuges (excerpts) Cage: Four Walls (excerpts) 28 November 1991 Varese/Takemitsu : A Frenchman in New York, A Japanese in Paris Varese: Octandre, Ameriques, Nocturnal [SONY, Vanguard] Takemitsu: Riverrun, Rain Coming, Tree Line [Virgin] 26 December 1991 Concert for the Year's End Stravinsky: Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Credo [KOCH] Feldman: Rothko Chapel [New Albion] 23 January 1992 John Cage is 80 This Year! (In conjunction with the Stanford U. Celebrations) First Construction in Metal Lecture on Nothing Four Walls Indeterminacy Interview with JC recorded earlier in the week at KPFA 25 February 1992 New Releases! Takemitsu: Works for Guitar and Orch.: To the Edge, Vers [SONY] Feldman: Palais de Mari (1986) [Hat Hut] Kronos Qtet: Music from Africa [Nonesuch] Scelsi: Uaxuctom 27 February 1992 More New Releases! Volans: White Man Sleeps (complete) [Kronos: Nonesuch] Scelsi: Quattro Pezzi Berio: Eindrucke Feldman: Piano (1977), Palais di Mari 23 April 1992 Still More New Releases! Wolpe: 4 Pieces for Piano (1925) Boulez: Derive, Cummings ist der Dichter Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (excerpt, Schoenberg Ens.) Feldman: Triadic Memories 28 May 1992 Olivier Messiaen Memorial Turangalila Symphony (New Recording, Orch Bastille) 23 July 1992 Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992 L'Ascension (1933) Orchestral Version Trois Petites Liturgies de la Prsence Divine (1944) Un Vitrail et des Oiseaux (1988) La Buse Variable, Le Traquet Rieur, Le Courlis Cendr -- from Catalogue d'Oiseaux, Book 7 (1958) Quartet for the End of Time, last movement 30 July 1992 New Music from Paris: New Releases from Disque Montaigne and ADDA Xenakis: Okho (1989) Rihm: Im Immersten (3rd String Quartet) (Arditti Qtet) Ferrari: "Brise-Glace" excerpt Xenakis: Tetora (3rd String Quartet) (Arditti Qtet) Kagel: rrrrrr.... (5 jazz pieces) 10 September 1992 Recent Music by Luc Ferrari Brise-Glace (extended excerpt) Histoire du plaisir et de la desolation (for orchestra) l'Escalier (DAT recording, Prix d'Italia winner) Presque rein avec filles These pieces introduced by the composer via discussion taped in Paris 24 September 1992 Desenclos: Prelude, Cadence, Finale for saxaphone (Arno Bornkamp) Rihm: 8th String Quartet Xenakis: Thallein Ferrari: Hterozygote Feldman: Why Patterns 26 November 1992 Special Thanksgiving Concert featuring music by contemporary composers influenced by the music of native cultures. Harrison: Four Strict Songs McPhee: Tabu Tabuhan Tello: Dansaq II Varese: Equitorial Riley: June Buddhas Thomson: Symphony on a hymn tune 22 February 1993 The Antipodes Recent Music by Philip Glass and Mauricio Kagel Glass: Company, "Low" Symphony (1992) Music composed by Philip Glass from the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno ("Low" album, 1977). Kagel: finale for chamber ensemble (1981) "...den 24.xii.1931" Verstümmelte Nachrichten (...the 24th of december 1931, Garbled News for baritone and ensemble) (1991) 29 March 93 Glass Interview & More New Releases Interview with Philip Glass, recorded 29/3/93 at Durant Hotel, Berkeley, prior to performance by Glass Ensemble of Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi. Arvo Paert: Fratres Festina Lente Gacinto Scelsi: Suite #8 for Piano "Bot-Ba" 26 April 1993 The Music of Stefan Wolpe (1902-72) Stehende Musik (1925), Tango (1927), Rag-Caprice (1927), March #1 op.10 (1928) Dance in the Form of a Chaconne (1938), Displaced Spaces, Shocks, Negations, ... (1946) Form IV: Broken Sequences for Piano (1969), Musik fr Hamlet (1929) To the Dance Master (1938), Three Brecht Songs (1943), Quartet #1 (1950) Piece for Two Instrumental Units (1962), Solo Piece for Trumpet (1966) Piece for Trumpet and 7 Instr. (1971) .