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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| Focus on Women Composers: Percussion music (Episode 23) |
Program highlighting the work of women percussionists. Produced and presented by Virginia Kosanovic. Contents: 1. Space model, Marta Ptaszyńska (excerpt); 2. intro/continuity; 3. Cadenza for flute and percussion, Marta Ptaszyńska; 4. continuity; 5. Solitaire for piano, vibraphone and tape, Barbara Kolb; 6. continuity; 7. Stress for percussion and tape, Marta Ptaszyńska; 8. continuity; 9. Homunculus, C.F. for 10 percussionists, Julia Perry; 10. continuity; 11. Space model, Marta Ptaszyńska; 12. outro/continuity; 13. Space model, Marta Ptaszyńska (excerpt). Self-contained. Engineered by Susan Sailow and April McMahon. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ptaszyńska, Marta, Kolb, Barbara, Perry, Julia, 1924-1979 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.23 | |
| Focus on Women Composers: Some Women in Rock (Episode 27) |
A program highlighting women composers in the field of rock music. Produced and presented by Susan Sailow. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Rhiannon, Stevie Nicks; 2. intro; 3. Children of Darkness, Sara Ellen Dunlop; 4. You're the One, Jean and June Millington of Fanny; 5. One Good Man, Janis Joplin; 6. continuity; 7. The Secret in This Lady's Heart, Ellen McIlwaine; 8. I Got the Rhythm, Virginia Rubino of BeBe K'Roche; 9. World Turning, Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham; 10. continuity; 11. I Can Hear Music, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector; 12. Mumbo, Linda and Paul McCartney; 13. Tutti Frutti, Dorothy LaBostrie and "Little" Richard Penniman; 14. outro; 15. White Bird, Linda LaFlamme and David LaFlamme. Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Nicks, Stevie, Dunlop, Sara Ellen, 1936-1978, Millington, June., Millington, Jean, Joplin, Janis, McIlwaine, Ellen, Rubino, Virginia, McVie, Christine, Greenwich, Ellie, McCartney, Linda, LaBostrie, Dorothy, 1928-2007, Laflamme, Linda | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.27 | |
| Focus on Women Composers: Women in College Music (Episode 31) |
Program exploring the American college music environment in which many composers find themselves and the impact this largely male-dominated world has had on women composers. Produced and presented by Virginia Kosanovic. Self-contained. Contents: 1. intro; 2. Chamber Concerto No. 2, Thea Musgrave; 3. continuity; 4. Paean, Vivian Fine; 5. continuity; 6. Outline, Pauline Oliveros; 7. reading of Judith Rosen's response to the question "Why Haven't Women Become Great Composers?" (1973), then outro. Master by Joan Medlin. Note: Archives copy is an aircheck that contains the first eight minutes of the following program, "Ahora." |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Musgrave, Thea, Fine, Vivian, 1913-2000, Oliveros, Pauline, 1932- | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.31 | |
| Composer Frankie Mann (Episode 32) |
A program exploring the work of Bay Area-based electronic composer Frankie Mann. Produced and presented by Susan Sailow. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Eloptic Gardens; 2. intro; 3. Computarok; 4. continuity; 5. Symphonarchy; 6. continuity; 7. I Always Begin with the Universe; 8. outro; 9. Cloud-Soft-Travelers. Master by April McMahon and Sher Giarmita. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mann, Frankie, 1955- | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.32 | |
| Composer Marta Ptaszyńska (Episode 39) |
A program focusing on the work of Polish-born contemporary composer and percussionist Marta Ptaszyńska, who teaches musical composition at UC Berkeley. Produced and presented by Virginia Kosanovic. Self-contained. [This reel is an aircheck that lacks the outro]. Contents: Intro; followed by an interview with Ptaszyńska conducted at her home; then three of Marta Ptaszynska's compositions: Improvisation for Orchestra (1968 premier performance); Siderals for percussion ensemble; and Madrigals for wind quartet, string quartet, trumpet and trombone. Engineered by Susan Kernes. Portions of this program were broadcast in a "Focus on Women Composers" program that aired in March 1977. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ptaszyńska, Marta | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.39 | |
| Focus on Women Composers: A selection of tapes collected recently (Episode 43) |
A program featuring tapes of women composers recently collected by Susan Sailow. Produced and presented by Susan Sailow. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Crystal Dancer, Janet Cuniberti; 2. continuity; 3. String Quartet, Ruth Schonthal-Seckel; 4. continuity; 5. Electronic Music for Belly Dancers, Linda Silbert; 6. continuity; 7. Mr. Brown's Wife, Lucy Garber; 8. Let's Get Away, Lucy Garber. Engineered by Susan Sailow. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Cuniberti, Janet, Schonthal, Ruth, Silbert, Linda | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.43 | |
| Composer Martha Dee (Episode 44) |
A program highlighting the work of composer Martha Dee, featuring recordings from a live concert of her music and choreography that took place on February 18, 1977 at Chico State College. Produced and presented by Fleur Helsingor. Self-contained. Contents: 1. intro; 2. Pulses; 3. continuity; 4. Women Suite; 5. continuity; 6. Trombone Lullaby; 7. continuity; 8. Of Sadness (three movements); 9. continuity; 10. Martha, what kind of jazz did you say this was?; 11. continuity/outro; 12. Windsong. Master by April McMahon. Originally broadcast May 1977. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Dee, Martha | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.44 | |
| Composer and pianist Michele Rosewoman (Episode 50) |
A program featuring Bay Area-based composer and pianist Michele Rosewoman. Produced and engineered by Joan Medlin. Self-contained. Contents: Interview with Michele Rosewoman intercut with her pieces in the following order: 1. Crazy Weaving Thing; 2. Prepared Piano; 3. Whistles/voices; 4. Echoes; 5. Seattle Improv.; 6. Full Moon Improv.; 7. Sound Song (only 40 second portion). |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rosewoman, Michele | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.50 | |
| Focus on Women Composers: Contemporary Collage (Episode 55) |
A program focusing on contemporary collage works by women composers. Produced and master by April McMahon. Self-contained. Contents: 1. intro; 2. Trio Sonata no. 4, "Sheep", Carolyn Hawley; 3. continuity; 4. Torero, Beth Anderson; 5. continuity; 6. Quia Amore Langueo, Ophelia, Janet Danielson; 7. continuity; 8. Eye, Suzanne Ciani; 9. continuity; 10. Six Ebauches, Jacqueline Fontyn; 11. outro. Engineered by Susan Kernes. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hawley, Carolyn Bowen, 1934-, Anderson, Beth, 1950-, Danielson, Janet, Ciani, Suzanne., Fontyn, Jacqueline | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.55 | |
| Focus on Women Composers: Contemporary Women Composers (Episode 59) |
The last in a series of four programs surveying compositions by women from the Renaissance to the present day, covering music composed by women since 1950. Produced and presented by Fleur Helsingor. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Homunculus c.f. for ten percussionists, Julia Perry; 2. intro/continuity; 3. Stray Birds, Ursula Mamlok; 4. continuity; 5. Horn Concerto, Thea Musgrave; 6. continuity/outro; Homunculus c.f. for ten percussionists, Julia Perry (included here in its entirety). Engineered by Susan Sailow. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Perry, Julia, 1924-1979, Mamlok, Ursula, Musgrave, Thea | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.59 |