MUSIC: KALW RADIO SHOWS

In 2024 my dear friend, piano virtuoso Sarah Cahill, started inviting me to be a guest host for select episodes of her regular show on KALW, “Revolutions Per Minute.” With my special thanks to her and everyone at the Bay Area’s premiere radio station, I am including those shows here.

#1. A Few of My Favorite Things…

Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Alexander Scriabin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Sun Ra, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Glenn Branca, Laurie Spiegel, Anne LeBaron, AGAMEMNON

#2. Anticipations of Minimalism

Erik Satie, George Antheil, Maurice Ravel, Virgil Thomson, Johanna M. Beyer

#3. Ancient China in 20th-Century Music

John Cage, The Beatles, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Lacy, Tan Dun, Horatiu Radulescu, Judith Weir

#4. Women’s History Month

Hildegard von Bingen, Lili Boulanger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Johanna M. Beyer, Florence Price, Vivian Fine, Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk, Anne LeBaron, Rhian Samuel, Ellen Fullman, Beata Moon

#5. Gender Variance in Western Music, part 1: Male-to-Female Representations

George Frideric Handel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Francis Poulenc, Harry Partch, Benjamin Britten, John Zorn, Anne LeBaron

#6. Gender Variance in Western Music, part 2: Female-to-Male Representations

George Frideric Handel, Richard Strauss, Francis Poulenc, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sussan Deyhim, Pauline Oliveros, Anne LeBaron

#7. In Tribute

Manuel de Falla, Igor Stravinsky, Kenneth Gaburo, Lukas Foss, Luciano Berio, Aaron Copland, James Tenney, Charles Wuorinen, The Residents, John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros, Louis Andriessen