MUSIC: SFCR RADIO SHOWS

My San Francisco radio program “A 21st-Century Guide to 20th-Century Music” ran for six years, from 2012 to 2018. Each of the 35 programs was two hours long. The first three unfortunately were not archived and no longer exist; these were survey shows on modernist music – its origins, early works, and late works. All my subsequent shows, however, were preserved, I’m happy to say, and can be heard on this website.

#4. Postmodernism, part 1: Three Founders

Harry Partch, John Cage, Sun Ra

#5. Postmodernism, part 2: Minimalism

Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young

#6. Postmodernism, part 3: Three Contemporary Masters

“Blue” Gene Tyranny, Anne LeBaron, Fred Frith

#7. Postmodernism, part 4: Three Contemporary Masters

Glenn Branca, John Zorn, The Residents

#8. Daoism in 20th-Century Western Music, part 1

Ruth Crawford Seeger, Harry Partch, John Cage, The Beatles, Steve Lacy

#9. Daoism in 20th-Century Western Music, part 2

Tan Dun, Dave Brubeck, Louis Andriessen, Horatiu Radulescu, Sun Ra

#10. Percussion in Early 20th-Century Music

Charles Ives, Darius Milhaud, Béla Bartók, Edgard Varèse

#11. Two Symphonies from 1934

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Kurt Weill

#12. A Tribute to Robert Ashley

Robert Ashley

#13. Dying Young, part 1: Three American Composers

Charles T. Griffes, Robert F. Graettinger, Eric Qin

#14. Dying Young, Part 2: Four International Composers

Claude Vivier, George Butterworth, Lili Boulanger, Julian Scriabin

#15. Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Formalism in Soviet Music

Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitry Shostakovich

#16. John J. Becker and the American Five Plus One

John J. Becker, Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger, Charles Ives, Ezra Pound, Carl Ruggles

#17. A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

#18. Gunther Schuller and Pierre Boulez at 90

Gunther Schuller, Robert F. Graettinger, Pierre Boulez, Claude Debussy

#19. The Percussion Ensemble

Amadeo Roldán, John J. Becker, Johanna M. Beyer, Henry Cowell, William Russell, John Cage, Lou Harrison

#20. Neo-Classicism, part 1

Ferruccio Busoni, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Sergey Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky

#21. Neo-Classicism, part 2

Manuel de Falla, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Dmitry Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky

#22. Neo-Classicism, part 3

Igor Stravinsky, Paul Bowles, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Elliott Carter, John Cage, Lejaren Hiller

#23. A Tribute to Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

#24. The Second Viennese School: Alban Berg and Anton Webern

Alban Berg, Anton Webern

#25. Schoenberg in America

Arnold Schoenberg, John Cage, Lou Harrison

#26. Surrealism in 20th-Century American Music

Conlon Nancarrow, Richard Maxfield, Morton Subotnick, Charles Dodge, The Residents

#27. 20th-Century Music on the March

John Philip Sousa, Edward Elgar, Alexander Scriabin, Scott Joplin, Ferruccio Busoni, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, William Russell, Johanna M. Beyer, Béla Bartók, Dmitry Shostakovich, Anthony Braxton, The Residents