Olympic Arts Contemporary Music Festival; Stockhausen: "Sternklang--Parkmusic for Five Groups"; Part 8

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<v Speaker>[music ends]. <v Rich Capperela>That was Sternklang by Karlheinz Stockhausen in this

<v Rich Capperela>first American performance as part of the Olympic Arts Contemporary Music Festival, <v Rich Capperela>the ensemble of musicians from California Institute of the Arts has assembled on <v Rich Capperela>the North Slope here in Veterans Memorial Park in Sylmar, California. <v Rich Capperela>The audience, thrilled, mesmerized, has risen in unison to applaud <v Rich Capperela>and cheer. That performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen Sternklang <v Rich Capperela>or Star Sound. <v Rich Capperela>Sternklang ended as it began, with a procession of musicians and torchbearers <v Rich Capperela>to the steady tolling of the bell. <v Rich Capperela>They came from the five distant stages and forming a circle around the central stage <v Rich Capperela>with its large Tam tam intoned a silent prayer, and then walking <v Rich Capperela>single file toward the North Slope. <v Rich Capperela>The musicians gathered and turned to face the audience. <v Rich Capperela>For the last three hours you've been listening to a complete and uninterrupted <v Rich Capperela>performance of Sternklang, Park Music for five groups composed

<v Rich Capperela>in 1971 by Karlheinz Stockhausen. <v Rich Capperela>The ensemble of musicians from California Institute of the Arts was under the musical <v Rich Capperela>direction of Stephen Mosko. <v Rich Capperela>This performance of Sternklang marks the first time this work has been performed <v Rich Capperela>in the United States. In coming weeks, we'll bring you many more World and American <v Rich Capperela>premieres by today's most distinguished composers on these broadcast concerts from the <v Rich Capperela>Olympic Arts Contemporary Music Festival. <v Rich Capperela>Join us next week for the world premiere of Morton Subotnick's tone poem, The Double <v Rich Capperela>Life of Amphibians. <v Rich Capperela>We'd like to thank California Institute of the Arts for its cooperation in the production <v Rich Capperela>of this broadcast. Franz von ?Rustom? <v Rich Capperela>Festival Director, musical director Lucky Mosko, producer Larry Stein, <v Rich Capperela>sound designer Peter Otto, and the entire Cal Art staff. <v Rich Capperela>Thanks also goes to the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, Karen <v Rich Capperela>Grant, supervisor. This program was recorded at Veterans Memorial Park, <v Rich Capperela>Sylmar, California on June 19th, 1984 for broadcast

<v Rich Capperela>at this time. The producer is Peter Ruttenberg. <v Rich Capperela>Audio engineers are Ted Ancona, Joseph McGee, and Lucia Delisa with production <v Rich Capperela>assistance from ?Redford? King Jr.. <v Rich Capperela>The executive producer is Peter Ruttenberg, the managing producer for these Olympic Arts <v Rich Capperela>Festival broadcasts is Wallace A. <v Rich Capperela>Smith. I'm Rich Capperela. Thanks for listening. <v Rich Capperela>Broadcasts of the Olympic Arts Festival are made possible by a major grant from the <v Rich Capperela>Times-Mirror Company, the festival's official sponsor and are distributed over the <v Rich Capperela>American Public Radio Network. <v Rich Capperela>This has been a production of KUSC Los Angeles. <v Speaker>This is the American Public Radio Network.