Music — Performance.
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Walking tune : a “room music” for Percy Grainger / written and performed by Charles Amirkhanian.
Australian-American composer Percy Grainger (1882-1961) worshipped the outdoors. His “Walking Tune” for solo piano was conceived in 1900 during a tramp through the Scottish Highlands. Composer-producer Amirkhanian uses the synthesizer to combine sounds recorded out-of-doors with prerecorded sounds from a variety of sources to produce a homage to the prominent 20th century composer.|WALKING TUNE: A…
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Perikles Halkias and the Bauls of Bengal / produced by Elisabeth Perez-Luna and Judi Moore Smith.
Performance documentary featuring Halkias and Purna Shandra Das Baul. Halkias, a clarinetist, heads a group which plays a type of traditional Greek folk music seldom heard in the United States, and vanishing from Greece. Baul is India’s most celebrated folk singer. He and his family have traveled and performed with Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan.|PERIKLES…
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Quest and Rory Stuart / produced by Elisabeth Perez-Luna and Judi Moore Smith.
Performance documentary featuring Dave Liebman and Rory Stuart. Liebman, a saxophonist for Miles Davis, leads Quest a modern jazz quartet. Stuart is a jazz guitarist.|QUEST AND RORY STUART / produced by Elisabeth Perez Luna and Judi Moore Smith. SERIES: At the Bride| no. 9 Performance documentary featuring Dave Liebman and Rory Stuart. Dave Liebman, saxophonist…
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Billy Harper and Fred Houn / produced by Elisabeth Perez-Luna and Judi Moore Smith.
Performance documentary featuring Harper and Houn. Fred Harper leads a group on the tenor saxophone. Fred Houn is the leader of a multicultural jazz group, an Afro-Asian jazz ensemble.|BILLY HARPER AND FRED HOUN / produced by Elisabeth Perez Luna and Judi Moore Smith. SERIES: At the Bride| no. 12 Performance documentary featuring Harper and Houn.…
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Phil Giordano’s Big Band and Rachelle Ferrell / produced by Elisabeth Perez-Luna and Judi Moore Smith.
Performance documentary featuring Giordano and Ferrell. Giordano plays standard jazz tunes and original compositions in the Big Band style. Also featuring Ferrell, an emerging jazz songstress who performs her own style of blues, spirituals, and funky pop.|PHIL GIORDANO’S BIG BAND AND RACHELLE FERRELL / produced by Elisabeth Perez Luna and Judi Moore Smith. SERIES: At…
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Mark Braun and Claudia Schmidt / produced by Elisabeth Perez-Luna and Judi Moore Smith.
Performance documentary featuring Braun and Schmidt. Braun, a blues and boogie woogie pianist, is the musical heir to Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Hammond and Professor Longhair. Schmidt performs folk music, singing her poems and songs to the accompanyment of a 12 string guityar, a mountain dulcimer, and a pianolin–a rare 1940s instrument which originated in…
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Third Kind of Blue and Jack Walrath / produced by Elisabeth Perez-Luna and Judi Moore Smith.
Performance documentary featuring Third Kind of Blue and Walrath. Third Kind of Blue is a modern jazz group who draw their sound from and eclectic blend of be-bop, funk, fusion and avant garde music. Walrath, a trumpeter, and Charles Mingus, join to perform their own composition.|THIRD KIND OF BLUE AND JACK WALRATH / producted by…
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Pete Seeger with Mikis Theodorakis at the Manhattan Center / introduced by Arthur Miller.
Music by Pete Seeger and Mikis Theodorakis, introduced by playright Arthur Miller.|PETE SEEGER WITH MIKIS THEODORAKIS AT THE MANHATTAN CENTER / introduced by Arthur Miller. – Music by Pete Seeger and Mikis Theodorakis, introduced by playright Arthur Miller. – RECORDED: at the Manhattan Center, New York City. BROADCAST: WBAI, 12 July 1970.
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Spirit ensemble and Jaja Matsimela / produced by Elisabeth Perez-Luna and Judi Moore Smith.
Performance documentary featuring the Spirit Ensemble and Jaja Matsimela. The Ensemble performs African and Afro-Caribbean music, raging from traditional African music to contemporary New York compositions. The Jaja Matsimela blends African and Latin rhythms, and is lead by Kwasi Olusola.|SPIRIT ENSEMBLE AND JAJA MATSIMELA / produced by Elisabeth Perez Luna and Judi Moore Smith. SERIES:…