This show, first broadcast on February 9, 2018, is devoted to composer/musician Julius Eastman. It features his performances as a singer in works by other composers: theatrical scores by Barbara Kolb and Peter Maxwell Davies, as well Eastman’s creation of the title role for my opera Agamemnon. Eastman is also heard singing his own music, and is represented by two of his instrumental compositions. Quotations are heard from my own interview with Kolb, and I offer reminiscences of working with Eastman on Agamemnon. The music played is:
BARBARA KOLB
Three Place Settings (1968)
(photo by Gene Bagnato)
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969)
JULIUS EASTMAN
Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc (1981)
The Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc (1981)
Piano 2 (1986)
Agamemnon, Act 3, Scene 3 (recorded 1988) [excerpt]
Link to:
Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018
For more on these composers, see:
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
For more on AGAMEMNON, see:
Music Lecture: Agamemnon
Music Lecture: The Secret of 20th-Century American Music
Music: KALW Radio Show #1, A Few of My Favorite Things…
Music: SFCR Radio Show #6, Postmodernism, part 3: Three Contemporary Masters
Music: SFCR Radio Show #12, A Tribute to Robert Ashley
Music: SFCR Radio Show #17, A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros
For more on Julius Eastman, see:
For more on Barbara Kolb, see:
Music Book: Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 