Program 808: Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Henry Brant
KALW Broadcast Date: December 30, 2024 | Host: Liam Herb
On this Music from Other Minds, Liam Herb plays an archival program produced by Other Minds Artistic and Executive Director Charles Amirkhanian honoring Peggy Glanville-Hicks‘s (December 29, 1912–June 25, 1990) 100th birthday, originally aired on December 28, 2012. In doing so, MfOM celebrates the composer’s 112th birthday with the broadcast.
The second hour of the program is dedicated to a program produced by Herb honoring the life and music of Henry Brant (September 15, 1915–April 25, 2008) which aired September 14, 2018.
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Title: Sonata for Harp (1950): “Rondo”
Composer: Peggy Glanville Hicks
Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
Recording Title: Contemporary Harp Music
Record Label: Counterpoint
Catalog Number: CPT 523
Title: Etruscan Concerto (1953)
Composer: Peggy Glanville Hicks
Performers: Keith Jarrett, piano; Dennis Russell Davies, Brooklyn Philharmonic
Recording Title: Glanville-Hicks, Lou Harrison, Riley: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Record Label: MusicMasters
Catalog Number: 01612-67089-2
Title: Concerto Romantico (1956): Movement 3
Composer: Peggy Glanville Hicks
Performers: Walter Trampler, viola; Carlos Suriname, MGM Chamber Orchestra
Recording Title: Peggy Glanville-Hicks / Marga Richter / Ben Weber
Record Label: MGM Records
Catalog Number: E3559
Title: Three Gymnopedies (1953)
Composer: Peggy Glanville Hicks
Performers: Jonel Perlea, RIAS Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Recording Title: Gillis, Glanville-Hicks, Rudhyar, Freeman
Record Label: Verèse Sarabande
Catalog Number: VC 81046
Title: Nausicaa (opera, 1960) excerpt
Composer: Peggy Glanville Hicks
Performers: Teresa Stratas, porano; Carlos Surinach, Athens Symphony Orchestra
Recording Title: Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Nausicaa, scenes from the opera
Record Label: New World Records
Catalog Number: NWCR695
Title: He Wound Not Stay (1944, A.E. Housman, text)
Composer: Peggy Glanville Hicks
Performers: Gerald English, tenor; Roland Perlman, piano
Recording Title: Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Gerald English: The Songs
Record Label: Tall Poppies
Catalog Number: TP112
Title: Sonata for Piano and Percussion (1956)
Composer: Peggy Glanville Hicks
Performers: Carlo Bussotti, piano; Carlos Surinach, NY Percussion Group
Recording Title: PEGGY GLANVILLE-HICKS / NIKOLAI LAPATNIKOFF Modern American Music Series
Record Label: Columbia Masterworks
Catalog Number: ML 4990
Title: Music For a Five and Dime Store
Composer: Henry Brant
Performers: Vera Beths, violin; Reinbert de Leeuw, piano; Henry Brant, percussion
Recording Title: The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 8
Record Label: Innova Recordings
Catalog Number: 415
Title: Jazz Clarinet Concerto
Composer: Henry Brant
Performers: Netherlands Wind Ensemble; Jacques Meertens, solo clarinet
Recording Title: The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 8
Record Label: Innova Recordings
Catalog Number: 415
Title: Revenge Before Breakfast
Composer: Henry Brant
Performers: Cornish School of the Arts Ensemble; Henry Brant, conductor
Recording Title: The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 8
Record Label: Innova Recordings
Catalog Number: 415
Title: Dialogue in the Jungle
Composer: Henry Brant
Performers: The Modern Brass Ensemble; The Arioso Winds; Frank Baker, tenor; Henry Brant, conductor
Recording Title: The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 8
Record Label: Innova Recordings
Catalog Number: 415
Title: Inside Track
Composer: Henry Brant
Performers: Yvar Mikhashoff, piano; Barbara Hannigan, soprano; Henry Brant, conductor; Robert Aitken, conductor
Recording Title: The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 8
Record Label: Innova Recordings
Catalog Number: 415
