June 1974 KPFK Folio

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monday evening concerts

Highlights

For the past 36 years, one of the most imaginative and forward-looking chamber music series in the world has taken place right here in Los Angeles. Monday Evening Concerts has presented over the years hundreds 0f important performances. many 0f them world premieres, 0f works by such 20th century composers as Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ives, Varese, and Hindemith, as well as reviving neglected compositions by such past masters as Perotin, Dufay, Schuetz, Monteverdi, and Bach. Under the knowledgeable guidance of Peter Yates, Lawrence Morton, and most recently, Dorrance Stalvey, Monday Evening Concerts has established and continued a worldwide reputation for performing excellence and programming audacity. So it is with great pleasure, and indeed, pride, that KPFK announces that the 1973-74 season of Monday Evening Concerts has been recorded in its entirety and will be heard on twelve consecutive Wednesday evenings at 8:30 p.m. beginning June 12. For their special contributions to overcoming the many legal, financial, technical and aesthetic difficulties involved, thanks to Barbara Kraft, Mark Rosenthal, Frederick Ampel, and of course, Dorrance Stalvey, who was ever patient, cooperative and encouraging.

—David Cloud, Music Director

A Technical Note

For the audiophiles in our listening audience — all of the Monday Evening Concerts and the Boston Symphony Orchestra programs (beginning with the June 4 broadcast) have been recorded with the Dolby "A" noise reduction system. The tapes will be decoded at the time of broadcast for maximum signal-to-noise ratio (no special equipment is necessary to receive these broadcasts). We hope that the resulting reduction of background tape hiss (up to 10 db) in these live-in-concert recordings will make them even more realistic and enjoyable, and we welcome your comments on the technical quality of these broadcasts. KPFK thus becomes the third FM station in the country to broadcast on a regular basis live music recordings made with the Dolby system (the others, if you're curious, are WCRB in Boston and WFMT in Chicago). 

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