This program, first broadcast on March 31, 2013, focuses on three great postmodern composers who also created inspired improvisations: pianist “Blue” Gene Tyranny, harpist Anne LeBaron, and guitarist Fred Frith. Along with quotations from my own interviews with all three, examples of their music are heard, plus Tyranny and Frith’s compositions for my opera Agamemnon:
“BLUE” GENE TYRANNY
The Somewhere Songs, “Somewhere Inside The Red Circle” (2001)
George Fox Searches (2010)
Agamemnon, Choral Ode 3 (recorded 1987)
ANNE LEBARON
Lamentation/Invocation, Part Two (1984)
Heat Wave 1 (2004)
Crescent City, Scenes 6 and 7 (2012)
FRED FRITH
To Sail, To Sail, “Life-Enhancing Interior,” “First Light” (2008)
Thin Air (2007) [excerpts]
Agamemnon, Choral Ode 2 (recorded 1987)
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
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For more on Fred Frith and “Blue” Gene Tyranny, see:
Music Book: Sonic Transports: New Frontiers in Our Music
For more on Fred Frith, Anne LeBaron, and “Blue” Gene Tyranny, see:
Music: KALW Radio Show #1, A Few of My Favorite Things…
For more on Anne LeBaron, see:
Music Essay: Anne LeBaron, Hyperopera, and Crescent City: Some Historical Perspectives
Music: KALW Radio Show #4, Women’s History Month
Music: KALW Radio Show #5, Gender Variance in Western Music, part 1: Male-to-Female Representations
Music: KALW Radio Show #6, Gender Variance in Western Music, part 2: Female-to-Male Representations
For more on Anne LeBaron and “Blue” Gene Tyranny, see:
Music Book: Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers
For more on “Blue” Gene Tyranny, see:
Music Essay: You Can Always Go Downtown
Music Essay: 88 Keys to Freedom: Segues Through the History of American Piano Music by “Blue” Gene Tyranny
Music Lecture: “Intense Purity of Feeling”: Béla Bartók and American Music
And be sure to read David Bernabo’s book Just for the Record: Conversations with and about “Blue” Gene Tyranny
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