Miscellaneous; Face the Music
- Series
- Miscellaneous
- Episode
- Face the Music
- Producing Organization
- WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-27mpgsdz
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- Program Description
- SYMPHONY SPACE PRESENTS FACE THE MUSIC CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS FOR FANS & SKEPTICS February 18, 1992 8:00 PM Introduction Jedediah Wheeler Performance WINGS, For Solo Clarinet JOAN TOWER David Krakauer, clarinet DUET/DRASTIC CUTS (world premiere) DONALD BYRD Music by Mio Morales Ruthlyn Salomons, Michael Blake, dancers IMPROVISATIONS MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS Muhal Richard Abrams, piano Leroy Jenkins, violin Lindsey Horner, bass -intermission- Conversation MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS * DONALD BYRD * JOAN TOWER JEDEDIAH WHEELER, moderator ***** Robert Bessoir, Lighting Designer Ed Budz, Production Coordinator Sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS is a co-founder of The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and a former music panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. In March, 1990, Mr. Abrams was unanimously selected the first recipient of the Danish Jazz Center's JAZZPAR prize. Mr. Abrams serves on the Board of Directors of The National Jazz Service Organization and The World Music Institute. DONALD BYRD has created over forty works since 1976, thirty of which commissioned original music. He is the artistic director and choreographer of Donald Byrd/The Group. Mr. Byrd is most recently known for his critically-acclaimed and controversial The Minstrel Show, which premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in the fall of 1991. Mr. Byrd's choreography includes works for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, the Nieuwe DansGroep of Holland, Cleo Parker Robinson Ensemble and the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. JOAN TOWER'S recent works include Second Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, commissioned by Absolut Vodka, which premiered at Lincoln Centers' Avery Fisher Hall in November, 1989 and a work for the brass section of the New York Philharmonic and the Empire Brass Quintet for the Carnegie Hall Centennial Celebrations performed in May, 1991. Ms. Tower is currently Asber Edelman Professor of Music at Bard College, where she has taught since 1972. JEDEDIAH WHEELER is president and creator of International Production Associates (IPA) Inc., an arts management/production company which focuses on new and unusual performance arts projects worldwide. LEROY JENKINS began training on the violin at the age of eight in Chicago's Southside and continued with a musical scholarship to Florida A & M University. During his career, The Kennedy Center included him in their American Composers Series and he was invited to conduct master classes at Carnegie Mellon Institute as Artist-in-Residence. In 1990, Mr. Jenkins completed his opera for dance, The Mother of Three Sons, commissioned by Hans Werner Henze and the Munich Biennele, which premiered the production in 1990. The piece was choreographed and danced by Bill T. Jones & Company. LINDSEY HORNER has his M.A. in Music from Julliard. Mr. Horner's album, Never No More, was released last year and received popular acclaim. He leads a band with singer, Jeanne Lee, and co-leads the group, The Chromatic Persuasions. Throughout his career, Mr. Horner has played with a wide variety of musicians from Jimmy Rowles to Pharoah Sanders. MIO MORALES has written scores for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Milton Myers, Bill Young, Dayton Contemporary Dance Ensemble and The Nieuwo Dansgroep in Amsterdam. MICHAEL BLAKE performed with the Jose Limon Company from 1986 to 1991, the Murray Louis Company and Joyce Trisler Danscompany under the direction of Milton Myers, Mr. Blake managed and directed a dance school in Osaka, Japan from 1985-90, and continues to commute to Japan to teach, choreograph and perform in between his professional engagements in the United States. RUTHLYN SALOMONS, a native of the Dutch West Indies, received most of her dance training at the Alvin Ailey Dance Center. After three years, she joined the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and thereafter went on to perform with The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Ms. Salomons is entering her third season with Donald Byrd and The Group. DAVID KRAKAUER is internationally known as a performer in many diverse styles, including classical chamber music, Eastern European Jewish Klezmer music, and his own avant-garde improvisational/theatrical compositions. He has played with Continuum, The Klezmatics, Music from Marlboro, New York Philomusica, downtown composer Anthony Coleman, and the late singer/actress Martha Schlamme, among others, in major halls, clubs, and performance spaces throughout the U.S., Europe, the U.S.S.R., South America, and Japan. FACE THE MUSIC is also made possible through grants from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Inc., Meet the Composer's Composers Performance Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Join us again on Tuesday, May 5th at 8 PM for the second program of this season's FACE THE MUSIC.and DANCE when MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS is joined by composer RICHARD PEASLEE and director/choreographer MARTHA CLARKE.
- Genres
- Performance
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 01:46:10
- Credits
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Composer:
Tower, Joan, 1938-
Composer: Abrams, Muhal Richard, 1930-
Composer: Byrd, Donald
Composer: Morales, Mio
Engineer: Haber, Edward
Engineer: Shultis, Stephen
Performer: Krakauer, David, 1956-
Performer: Salomons, Ruthlyn
Performer: Blake, Michael
Performer: Jenkins, Leroy
Performer: Horner, Lindsey
Producer: Chernow, Allison
Producing Organization: WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68369.1 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: DAT
Generation: Original
Duration: 01:46:10
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68369.2 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Dub
Duration: 01:46:39
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Miscellaneous; Face the Music,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 6, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-27mpgsdz.
- MLA: “Miscellaneous; Face the Music.” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 6, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-27mpgsdz>.
- APA: Miscellaneous; Face the Music. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-27mpgsdz