Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life #4 (1971)

Heiichiro Ohyama, viola
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Tilson-Thomas, conductor

Feldman wrote a series of pieces by this name in honor of his wife, Barbara Monk. This performance was billed somewhat pretentiously as the “Los Angeles première”. It was recorded live on 21 November 1982 at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.

aircheck 20 February 1983, 1305–1325h, KUSC-FM Los Angeles
(Por si la palabra «aircheck» no se traduce bien, sabed que significa una grabación sacada de la radio, a veces de un evento difundido en vivo, más comúnmente de un evento grabado en vivo para emitirse otro día. De costumbre los airchecks se identifican por las siglas de la radiodifusora y la fecha de emisión.)


The Viola in My Life #4
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Alfred Schnittke: Requiem

Requiem, music to Schiller's drama “Don Carlos” for soloists, mixed chorus, and instrumental ensemble In fourteen movements, op. 101 (1975)

Helga Therme and Gisela Burghardt, sopranos
Heidi Riess, mezzo-soprano
Albrecht Lepetit, tenor
Hermann Christian Polster, bass
Dresden Kreuzchor and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Martin Flämig, conductor

live performance 26 May 1982 in the Dresden Kreuzkirche
Dresden Festival 1982

Toward the end of his life, Schnittke was lionized by the West, partly because his style was more Western than Soviet.

aircheck 29 January 1983, 2000–2037h, KUSC-FM Los Angeles
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Schnittke Requiem
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Steve Reich: Tehillim (orchestral version)

Julianne Baird, Cheryl Bensman, Jane Bryden, sopranos
Kimball Wheeler, mezzo-soprano
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta, conductor

The name of the work is Hebrew for “psalms” or “praises”. Its lyrics are drawn from Psalms 19, 34, 18, and 150. One of Reich’s more lyrical works; he manages to achieve his signature beat-frequency effects by playing five similar voices off one another.

world première performance of the orchestral version
recorded live 16 September 1982
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, New York City

aircheck 12 February 1983 1230–1300h, KUSC-FM Los Angeles
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Reich Tehillim orchestral première
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, live 1982

The Emerson Quartet
Walter Trampler, second viola

Wolfgang Mozart: String Quintet in g, K. 516
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in C, op. 59/3, “Rasumovsky”
George Crumb: Vox balaenae (Voice of the Whale)

For many decades now, the CMSLC has been a somewhat fluid group of musicians, originally all members of the New York Philharmonic, that the Lincoln Center draws from each season to perform chamber works involving a wide range of instruments. This evening, most likely from the 1982 season, assembled five strings, a flute, and a piano to present one piece each from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, all surprisingly well suited to each other.

aircheck 27 April 1983 2100h KUSC-FM, Los Angeles
(Por si la palabra «aircheck» no se traduce bien, sabed que significa una grabación sacada de la radio, a veces de un evento difundido en vivo, más comúnmente de un evento grabado en vivo para emitirse otro día. De costumbre los airchecks se identifican por las siglas de la radiodifusora y la fecha de emisión.)


Emerson Quartet at Lincoln Center
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