IN-STUDIO GUESTS:  AVNER DORMAN (COMPOSER), LYRIS QUARTET, ANDREW McINTOSH (VIOLIN)

10am: Spices Perfumes, Toxins!
1.  Toumani Diabata, “Si naani,”  Toumani Diabate: The Mande Variations, World Circuit

2.  The Yuval Ron Ensemble, “Sufi,” and “Erev Shel Shoshanim/Shalom-Salam,” Seeker of Truth, The Yuval Ron Ensemble, Live at the World Festival of Sacred Music, Yuval Ron Music, www.yuvalronmusic.com, info@yuvalronmusic.com

CD/DVD Release concert Sunday July 26 in Brentwood: http://www.yuvalronmusic.com/home.html?text/calendar.html~mainFrame

3.  Jody Diamond, “Sabbath Bride,” In That Bright World,  New World Records

4.  Zubin Mehta & the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Perca Du, Avner Dorman: Spices Perfumes, Toxins! Concerto for Percussion Duo and Orchestra, (Private Collection)

www.laphil.org Hollywood Bowl - Avner Dorman’s West Coast Premiere of Spices Perfumes, Toxins! Tuesday night, July 28 at the 

5.  Mike Marshall, Darol Anger with Vasen, “Forslund,” and “Loke’s Troubles,” Mike Marshall & Darol Anger with Vasen, Adventure Music America

5.  Monroe Silver, “Pittsburgh, PA,” Jewface: 15 Golden Greats by the Leading Yiddish Warblers of Our Time, Reboot Stereophonic

6.  Leszek Mozdzer, “Mazurka Op. 33, No. 2,” Leszek Mozdzer: Impressions on Chopin,Opus 111

11am: Strings & Things - Live from Studio A: Lyris Quartet + Andrew McIntosh

7.  Kronos Quartet, “Ya Habibi Ta’ala, (Midhat Assem)” and Tashweesh, (Ramallah Underground), Floodplain, Nonesuch

8.  Lyris Quartet, “Debussy String Quartet,” “Hayden String Quartet,” (LIVE IN STUDIO)

Lyris plays a free concert Sunday July 26th @ LACMA "Sundays Live" - info at - http://www.sundayslive.org/

9.  Kronos Quartet, “Mugam Beyati Shirat (RahmanAsadollahi),” Floodplain, Nonesuch

10.  Andrew McIntosh, Schweinitz: “Plainsound-Litanei” (LIVE IN STUDIO)
Andrew plays a FREE Matinee show downtown this Sunday @ 3pm www.thewulf.org

11.  Kronos Quartet, “Lullaby,” Floodplain, Nonesuch

Guests: Kim Walters, Director of the Braun Library at Southwest Museum + John Koegel, CSU Fullerton

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/17/local/me-then17?pg=1

11am - Noon

1. George Wharton James cylinder (circa 1900?): Navajo "Yeibichei Song"
* A non-commercial recording made by George Wharton James (a Los Angeles-based writer and California promoter), circa 1900, of a Navajo singer singing a Yeibichei song (Gods-their-grandfathers), by a solo singer.  In the Southwest Museum cylinder collection.

2. Laura Bolton disc (1940): Navajo "Yeibichei Song: Talking God's Song"
* A later field recording of a Navajo Yeibichei song (the same song genre), sung by a group of Navajo singers in 1940.  Originally recorded on flat disc, now available on the Smithsonian Folkways CD series.

3. Lummis cylinder: "Mucho sufro por tí," Rosa and Luisa Villa
* “I Suffer Greatly For You,” sung by the Villa sisters, Rosa and Luisa, with their own guitar accompaniment.  The Hermanas Villa were local Los Angeles residents, and were very musically talented.  Their father was a prosperous butcher.  Their brother Hernando was a famous artist, painting California and Southwest themes, and their brother Noe sang in the San Francisco Opera chorus in the 1920s.  A typical song of the time about romantic love.  The Villa sisters recorded a number of songs for Lummis circa 1904.

4. Lummis cylinder: "Despiera blanca paloma," Manuela García
* Manuela García was the most prolific of all of Lummis’s musical informants, recording more than 100 songs, I believe.  She was a fine singer who had a larger repertory of Mexican popular, folk, and salon songs, as well as some songs with local California origins.  Her family was relatively prominent in early Los Angeles, and her father worked for John Temple, one of the wealthiest landowners in Southern California in the mid nineteenth century.  Temple Street in downtown is named after him.  He owned the land where the old Los Angeles County Courthouse stood for many years (now the site of the current courthouse, I believe).  The Garcías were a very musical family.  Four members of the family recorded songs for Lummis.  This song is also about romantic love.

5. Lummis cylinder:  La pasion funesta," Rosendo Uruchurtu
* This is an interesting song by a local blind musician, Rosendo Uruchurtu, a fine guitarist and singer.  He played guitar for many of Manuela García’s recordings.  Rosendo was a friend of the Villa and García families.  His grandfather was also a musician, and was active in this field in Los Angeles in the 1850s.

6. Lummis Cylinder: "Peteneras," Francisco Amate
* Lummis’s Spanish-born cook Francisco Amate was a fine singer and guitarist, and recorded about 20 Spanish (not Mexican) songs for Lummis.  These are considered by some Spanish scholars as important examples of “pre-flamenco” music.

7. Edison Mexican cylinder:  "Anita" Octaviano Yáñez (solo guitar)
    * This is a commercial recording made in Mexico City in the early 20th century by the Edison company, the first recording company to make recordings in Mexico.  Not much is known today about the Mexican guitarist Octaviano Yáñez, except that he made some really good recordings for Edison and was a fine musician.  This is a “mazurka de salón,” perhaps composed by Yánez, but I am not sure.  The cylinder is in the Lummis cylinder collection and shows that these fine Mexican recordings were available for sale in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the USA, as well as in Mexico.  While in Mexico, between about 1904 and the beginning of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the Edison company recorded hundreds of cylinders played by some of Mexico’s best classical and popular musicians (opera singers, wind bands, chamber ensembles, popular singers, as well as the first mariachi recordings).

8. Bettini concert cylinder: "Parigi o cara," from La Traviata (Verdi)
* In the Lummis cylinder collection at the Southwest Museum; originally probably owned by George Wharton James.  This is a very rare Bettini cylinder of an operatic duet by Madame Ciaparelli an Signor Dante del Papa, two early operatic recording artists.  Bettini was the first or among the first to record high-level opera singers.  His cylinders were issued is small quantities and are rare.  This recording dates from the later 1890s.
* Someone shaved off the end of the original cylinder (at the turn of the twentieth century, probably), and then recorded a bad rendition of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (George Wharton James and others?).10. Vocalion disc: "Que el importa al mundo," sung by Los madrugadores

9. Lummis cylinder (Isleta Pueblo): Cancion de los muchachos," Ramón Zuñi (announced  by Lummis)
* Recorded circa 1904 at El Alisal, Lummis’s home in the Arroyo Seco (now off the Avenue 43 exit on the 110 freeway), by Ramón Zuñi, from Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico.  Zuñi was helping Lummis build El Alisal at the time of the recording project, and recorded this very interesting “Song of the Boys.”  Partch transcribed this song in 1933 from the original cylinder, and later used the tune in one of his compositions.

10. Harry Partch, "Cloud Chamber Music", Harry Partch Collection Vol.1, new world

11. Partch, "Cloud Chamber Music", recorded live REDCATheatre May 29/2009, private recording

12. Vocalion disc: "Que el importa al mundo," sung by Los madrugadores
* The commercial release was recorded in Los Angeles in the 1920s or 1930s by the local group Los Madrugadores.  It is a variant of a version recorded by Manuela García in 1904, showing the endurance of some of the songs in the Lummis Cylinder Collection into later decades.

13. Lummis cylinder: "Despiera blanca paloma," Manuela García

IN-STUDIO GUESTS:  JEFF VON DER SCHMIDT (SOUTHWEST CHAMBER MUSIC); GREGORIO LUKE (FORD AMPHITHEATRE, MURALS OF RUFINO TAMAYO)


10am: Summer Festival at the Huntington
1.  Aruna Sairam, “Om Sakti Om,” Divine Inspiration, World Village

2.  Triakel, “Lilla Hin/Gammel Sara,” (Sweet Black Licorice) Triakel,  Xxource

3.  Saeed Kamjoo, “Roshani,” Taaloon, Canada Music Fund/Canada Council for the Arts

4. Jeff von der Schmidt – SOUTHWEST CHAMBER MUSIC SUMMER FESTIVAL
    details: www.swmusic.org

5. Wilhelmina Smith, “Sonata for Violin/Piano”, The Music of Aaron Copland,Copland House

6.  Amar Quartettt:, Verdi: String Quartet II, III (out of print)

7.  Wolfgang  Amadeus Mozart, Vol. 4, CD1, Horn Quintet

8.  Elizabeth Leonskaja, Alban Berg Quartett, Georg Hortnagel, Schubert: Forellenquintett, A-dur; Piano Quintet in A, Trout EMI

11am: When Worlds Collide + Murals of Rufino Tamayo @ the Ford w/Gregorio Luke www.gregorioluke.com

9.  Yo Yo Ma & Silk Road Ensemble, “Mohini (Enchantment)” and “Oasis,” Silk Road Journeys, Beyond the Horizon, Sony Classical

10.  Ravi Shankar/Philip Glass, “Ragas in Minor Scale,” Bridges, The Best of Ravj Shankar, BMG

11.  Ravi Shankar/Yehudi Menuhin, “Raga Piloo,” The Ravi Shankar Collection, East Meets West, The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions, Angel

12.  Shakti with John McLaughlin, “Kriti,” A Handful of Beauty,” Columbia

13.  Fishtank Ensemble, “Gitanos Californeros,” and “Turkish March,” Fishtank Ensemble, Samurai Overserbia, www.fishtankensemble.com and cdbaby.com

14.  INTERVIEW - Gregorio Luke – Murals of Ruffino Tamayo

15. Salonen, Revueltas:”Sensemaya”, The Music of Sylvestre Revueltas, Sony Classical

16. Maribel Salazar, “Besame mucho”, private recording

 

IN-STUDIO GUEST:  DAVID TRASOFF (ALI AKBAR KHAN TRIBUTE);  DAVID ROSENBOOM

10am: Ali Akbar Khan (1922-2009) – with David Trasoff
1.  Shakti with John McLaughlin, “La Danse Du Bonheur,” A Handful of Beauty, Columbia

2.  Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, “Raga: Darbari Kanada Aalap,” The Unparalleled Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, www.hamaracd.com, Saregama India Limited

3.  Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, “Raga:  Ahir Bhairav,” Master Musician Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Classical Instrumental, EMI/The Gramophone Co. of India Ltd.

4. Ali Akbar Khan, “Rag Sindhu Bhairavi,” and “Rag Pilu Baroowa,” Ali Akbar Khan Then and Now, The Music of the Great Masters Continues, AMMP, Alam Madina Music Productions

11am: David Rosenboom: How much better if Plymouth Rock had landed on the Pilgrims
4.  David Rosenboom, (all tracks), How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims, New World Records

plus: sneak preview of Ah! [REDCAT in Los Angeles, September 17th, 18th, and 19th, 2009]

Details at: http://music.calarts.edu/~david/

GLOBAL VILLAGE WITH JOHN SCHNEIDER, PLAYLIST FOR 6/25/09

GUEST HOST TODAY: ALI LEXA, "The Ukester"

IN-STUDIO GUESTS: SINGER AMANDA CARR, BAROQUELELES (STACEY & BENJAMIN MAY); 2nd ANNUAL ALOHA FALSETTO FESTIVAL, JENNIFER GILES (U.S. CENSUS)

1. Anders Clemens Oien (Leo Brouwer), “La Toccata de Pasquini,” Sonatas, Nordic Sound
2. Hot Club of Detroit, “Django’s Monkey,” Night town, Mack Avenue
3. Hot Club of Detroit, “Seven Steps to Heaven,” Night town, Mack Avenue
4. Grant Geissman, “Crazy Talk,” Cool Man Cool, Futurism Records
5 Grant Geissman, “Below the Radar,” Say That!, Futurism Records
6. Grant Geissman, “Too Cool For School,” Cool Man Cool, Futurism Records
7. Amanda Carr, “Good Bait,” “Easy Street,”” Soon, OMS Records
8. Interview with AMANDA CARR (www.amandacarr.com)

Amanda Carr at KPFK

9. Amanda Carr, “Big Wide Wonderful World,” The Common Thread, OMS Records
10. Amanda Carr, “Mais Que Nada,” Soon, OMS Records

SOON - Amanda's Carr recent CD

11. Amanda Carr, “Close Your Eyes,” Soon, OMS Records

Amanda Carr is Performing tonight Thurs June 25 at 7:30 PM

Jazz @ The Merc, Temecula, California 92590 Cost: 15
"Jazz at the Merc" 42051 Main Street. Old Town Temecula, Ca
at the TEMECULA THEATRE. For tickets call 866-653-8696 or visit www.temeculatheatre.org

www.amandacarr.com

12. Baroquelele (Bach), “Prelude from the first Cello Suite" Meet the Baroqueleles.
13. INT. BAROQUELELES (www.baroqueleles.com)
14. “Beautiful Dreamer,” Live
15. Baroqueleles, (Vivaldi), “Double Mandolin Concerto,”
16. Baroqueleles, “Cielito Lindo,” Meet the Baroqueleles.

Benjamin May demonstrating the inspiration for classical ukulele

Benjamin & Stacy May, The Baroqueleles
www.baroqueleles.com
http://cdbaby.com/cd/baroqueleles

17. Bill Tapia, “I Want To Learn To Speak Hawaiian,” Livin’ It Live, Spider

18. Genoa Keawe, “Papalina Lahilahi”
19. Interview with MITCHELL CHANG and Jim "Kimo" West (www.alohafalsettofest.com)
20. Leokane Pryor, “Haleakala Hula”
21. Richard Ho’opii, “Aloha, Kauai”
22. Leokane Pryor, “Aloha No o Hana,”
23. Bryan Tolentino, "Analani E" Ka 'Ukulele Lele
24. Daniel Ho & Herb Ohta Jr. "Expressions" 2 to Three feet 'ukuleles in paradise 3
25. The Ventures, “Walk, Don’t Run.”

Mitch Chang and Jim "Kimo" West speaking on the upcoming
Aloha Falsetto Festival Sat July 18 at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center

Info and Ticket Ordering here: www.alohafalsettofest.com
KPFK Listeners, enter the code KPFK when ordering Tickets online for a $5 discount! (Valid through June 29th)

The Ford Amphitheater is also holding events celebrating Pacific Islander heritage. On August 29th A tribute to Na Ali‘i, featuring the Kilohana Dance Company, Music by Horace Dudoit, Glen Smith and Chris Kamaka. And Aloha Fest will be happening on September 19th at the Ford
http://www.fordtheatres.org/en/home/index.asp

10am: M•A Recordings – Todd Garfinkle, founder & Director www.marecordings.com

1.  Todd Garkinkle and Shigeo Sugiyama, “The Real Thing,” Prayers, Wishes, Illusions, MA Recordings

2.  Sera Una Noche, “Nocturna,” La Segunda, MA Recordings

3.  Silvia Perez Cruz & Ravid Goldschmidt, “Gitana,” and “Vestida de nit,” Llama, MA Recordings

4.  Zhang Ling Ling, “Battling the Typhoon,” Zhang Ling Lin’s Gu Zheng Musical World,  MA Recordings

5.  Bruce Stark, “Playground,” Shadow Bright, MA Recordings

6.  Ricardo Rocha, Maria Ana Bobone, Joao Paulo, and Mario Franco, “Fado Cravo,” Luz Destino, MA Recordings

7.  Joae Paulo, Carlos Bica, and Peter Epstein, “Passos,” Almas, MA Recordings

8.  La Chimera, Furio Zanasi, Ximena Biondo, “Voglio di vita uscir,” “El dia que me quieras,” and “Chimoe d’ oro,” Buenos Aires Madrigal, Argentine Tangos & 17th Century Italian Madrigals, MA Recordings

9.  Calamus, “Murakkaz, Ah Ya Muddasin,” The Splendour of Al-Andalus, Arab-Andalusian Music of the 12th to the 15th Centuries,  MA Recordings

10.  Martin Zeller, “Bach, Suite 1 in G, Prelude,” Martin Zeller: Violincello, J.S. Bach: 6 Suites a Violoncello Solo senza Basso, MA Recordings

11. Ensemble Mare Nostrum/Andrea De Carlo, “BWV 634, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier,” J.S. Bach, “Orgelbuchlein, Ensemble Mare Nostrum/Andrea De Carlo, MA Recordings

12.   Ensemble Mare Nostrum/Andrea De Carlo, “BWV 634 Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier,” J.S. Bach, “Orgelbuchlein, Ensemble Mare Nostrum/Andrea De Carlo, MA Recordings.

13.  Formatia Vela Mare, “Sarba Lui Culin Lascar Dusu,” Departe De Casa, MA Recordings

11am: Ukester + Partch@REDCAT

14.  John King, UKELE SEGMENT WITH ALI LEXA

Partch DARK/Partch Light – REDCAT Fri/Sat May 29/30 – www.REDCAT.org or www.MicroFest.org

15.   Harry Partch, “The Dreamer That Remains – A Study in Loving,” “Windsong”,  Harry Partch (1901-1974) The Harry Partch Collection, Vol. 3,  New World Records

16. Harry Partch +, "Yankee Doodle Fantasy", Harry Partch: Enclosure 2, Innova

17. Newband, “Dark Brother”, Harry Partch/Dean Drummond, Innova

18. John Schneider (with Partch), “Barstow,” (Private Recording)

19. Partch,  “Castor and Pollux,” (Private Recording)

IN-STUDIO GUESTS:  EVA SOLTES; GARRY EISTER (COMPOSER)

10am:Gloria Cheng/Calder Quartet in Joshua Tree

1.  Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, “Scrapple from the Apple,” Yesterdays, ECM

2. Formatta Valea Mare, “Sarba Lui Culin Lascar Dusu,” Departe de Casa, MA Recordings

3.  Capitol Steps, “Help Me, Honda”, Obamamia!, Newport & Eaton

4.  Gloria Cheng, Stucky: “Giocoso”, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky…, telarc

5. Sarah Cahill, “Piano Percussion Music (1929)”, First Life: Rare Early Works, otherminds

Gloria Cheng & Calder Quartet: Saturday May 30, 8pm
Joshua Tree Retreat Center, 59700 29 Palms Hwy Joshua Tree CA 92252
Music of Janacek, Ades, Stucky, Glass  
(760)365-8371

6.  Thomas Ades + Arditti Quartet, ”Piano Quintet”, Ades/Schubert Piano Quintets, emi

7.  Gloria Cheng, Stucky: “Contemplativo”, Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky…, telarc

8.  Gloria Cheng, Stravinsky: “Tango”, Piano Dance, telarc

9.  Calder Quartet, Ravel:”Assez vif: Tres rhythmé”, The Calder Quartet, www.thecalderquartet.com

11am: MicroFest  - “Sleep” (May 27/June 5) + Partch Dark/Partch Light (May 29/30)

“SLEEP: A S’real S’rvey of the Nightscape” by Garry Eister
Pierce College Wednesday, May 27, 8pm
Cal Poly Pomona Friday June 5, 8pm
http://microfest.org/microfest20095.html

10. Emerson St Qtet + Dennis James, Eister: “Quintet for Glass & Strings”, CRISTAL, sony

11. Eister, “Three Miniatures for Pan & Charango”, Traveling in Rain, www.eistermusic.com

12. Eister, “The Insomniac”, www.eistermusic.com

13. Eister, “Music from Sleep”, Traveling in Rain, www.eistermusic.com

14. Eister, “Nightmare”, www.eistermusic.com

15. Eister, “Traveling in Rain”, Traveling in Rain, www.eistermusic.com

16. Harry Partch, “Windsong”, The Harry Partch Collection Vol.3, New World

17. Harry Partch, “Yankee Doodle Fantasy”, Enclosure 2, Innova

18. Harry Partch, “Windsong”, The Harry Partch Collection Vol.3, New World

19. Partch, “You Lucky Women #7 of Barstow”+”Cloud Chamber Music”, Live Concert Recording, REDCAT 2005

Partch Dark/Partch Light – REDCAT May 29/30 8:30pm –

http://microfest.org/microfest20096.html

20.  Formatta Valea Mare, “Balanceanca Sofie Vicoveanca,” Departe de Casa, MA

21.  Antoine de Lhoyer, “Concerto pour guitare et CORDES, Opus 16”, de lhoyer, duos et concerto pour guitare,  Naive

22.  Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, “Stone Flower,” “Samba Novo,” LAGQ Brazil, TelArc

 
10am: Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra & Topanga Philharmonic

1.  The Capitol Steps, “I Wrecked My Heart With Spam and Crisco,” Obama Mia, Newport and Eaton.
 
2.  Aruna Sairam, “Pirava Varam Tarum,” Divine Inspiration, World Village/Harmonia Mundi
 
3. The Capitol Steps,  “George Bush: A Time for Refraction,” and “The Chap Who Threw His Two Shoes,” Newport and Eaton.
 
4. Tiempo Libre, “Tu Conga Bach,” Bach in Havana, Sony (Private Collection)
 

Santa Barbara Chamber Orhestra at the Broad Stage – world pemiere of Gordon Chin’s Romance Gulda’s jazzy Concerto: tix 310-434-3200.
http://www.thebroadstage.com/pages/tickets.php
5.  Friedrich Gulda, “3 Prelude and Fuge,” (Private Collection)
 
6.  Gordon Chin, “Double Concerto,” (Private Collection)
 

Topanga Philharmonic fundraiser at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum: Sat 2-4 + free activities www.theatricum.com

7.  Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic, “Felix Mendelssohn’s Overture to Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture),” Midsummer Night’s Dream” Sony Music.
 
8.  Seiji Ozawa, “Tchaikowsky, Symphonie No. 4, “Capriccio Italien,” Tchaikowsky, Symphonie No. 4, Capriccio Italien, Deutsche Grammophon
 
8.  Stile Antico, “Plainchant – Antiphon: Iam hiems transiit,” “Tomas Luis de Victoria – Vidi speciosam,” “Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Migra Sum” Songs of Songs, Harmonia Mundi

9.  Hildegurls, “Prologue,” “Act 1,” “Act II,” Electric Ordo Virtutum, Innova

11am: David Starobin’s Favorite Tracks Vol.2
 
10.  The Capitol Steps, “Barackberry,” Obama Mia, Newport and
Eaton
 
11.  David Starobin, “Sunday Song Set,” “Elliott Charter “Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred,”  “Elliott Charter: Changes,” “Sandor Jemnitz, Trio,” “Humphrey Searle: Two Practical Cats,” Favorite Tracks, Vol. 2, 1976-1997, Bridge Records
 
12.  David Starobin, “Giulio Regondi: Etude No. 10 in A Major,” Favorite Tracks, Vol. 1, Bridge Records
 
13.  David Starobin, “Color and Light,” Favorite Tracks, Vol. 2, 1976-1997, Bridge Records
 
14.  Nico Muhly, “The Two Sisters,” “The Old Mill Pond,” “The Only Tune,” Nicomuhlmothertongue, Brassland
 
15.  Shakti with John McLaughlin, “The Two Sisters,” A Handful of Beauty,  Columbia
 
17.  Shakti with John McLaughlin, “Kriti,” A Handful of Beauty,  Columbia