OFFBEAT: Jan 7th 2012 Tara Kamangar - Interview and Portrait

Tara Artemis Kamangar

In the first broadcast of 2012, Karishmeh Felfeli explores lesser-known piano music from the Caucasus region as part of a profile on Iranian-American pianist Tara Kamangar who has devoted most of her professional life bringing this music to a larger audience. Tara also shares her own story, her musical insights and highlights from her career so far, which includes combining classical piano recitals with jazz-gypsy rock concerts. For Tara, a gifted pianist is also violinist with the Iranian band Kiosk. This profile and interview also features music from Tara Kamangar's brand new debut recording titled 'East of Melancholy: Piano Music from Russia to Iran'. The motivation behind this recording, and the musical selections featured on it are also explored in this radio broadcast.
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PLAYLIST
Aminoullah Hossein: Prelude No. 1 ' Homage to Omar Khayyam'**
Kamangar: Melody*
Balakirev/Glinka: The Lark**
Rachmaninov/Hossein: Closing section of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Piano Concerto No. 2, respectively.* Both taken from a live performance featuring Tara Kamangar on piano with the Oakland East Bay Symphony conducted by Michael Morgan.
Bach: Prelude from Suite No. 1 for solo cello - performed on santur by Luidmila Behadzed*
Bach: Prelude from English Suite No. 5 - opening bars performed first on harpsichord by Mahan Esfahani, then on piano by Glenn Gould.*
Loris Tjeknavorian: Dance of Elegy from Fantastic Dances op. 2**
Kiosk: Agha! Negah Dar.***
Khachaturian: Adagio from Spartacus*

*These musical examples are short extracts.
** Heard in their entirety and taken from Tara Kamangar's debut recording 'East of Melancholy'.
*** Live recording of a Kiosk concert


FIND OUT MORE ABOUT TARA KAMANGAR BY VISITING HER WEBSITE
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT KIOSK


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Offbeat: New years Eve 2011: Music from Five Countries

AIR DATE: 31 December 2011

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MUSIC FROM FIVE COUNTRIES - INDIA, CANADA, AMERICA, ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

For this New Years Eve edition of Offbeat, Karishmeh's musical selection is influenced, in part, by all the places she has lived in (and broadcasted Offbeat from) at various times in her life which include: Pune/Bombay/Goa (India), Baltimore/Oberlin/Houston (USA), Toronto (Canada), London (UK) and Counties Dublin/Mayo (Ireland).

Offbeat Dec 24th - Music by Jean de Brebeuf, Shostakovich, Beegie Adair, Pink Floyd, Pete Seeger, Stephen Foster, Anton Webern, The Ramones and more..

AIR DATE: 24 December 2011

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 PLAYLIST

Jean de Brebeuf: Huron Carol (arr. Heather Dale)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Jazz Suite 1

Beegie Adair:  I've got my love to keep me warm

Pink Floyd: The Merry Xmas song

Anton Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra, op. 1
Pete Seeger: Carol of the Beasts

Stephen Foster: Hard Times Come again no more (first recording, 1905)

The Ramones: Merry Christmas, I don't want to fight tonight
A Muppet Family Christmas - Medley
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2, Second Movement (Andante)

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OFFBEAT 12 November - Derek and The Dominoes, Margaret Bonds, Florence Price, Marian Anderson, Zapp, Janis Ian, Gil Scott Heron Gig Alert - Karen Power/Mary Nunan Movement of Sound Tour

Marian Anderson

Gil Scott-Heron

AIR DATE: 12 November 2011
9 p.m. GMT

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PLAYLIST

Derek and the Dominoes: Why does love got to be so sad?
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Waters *
Florence Price: Piano Sonata in E Minor, Movement 2 - Andante *

OFFBEAT 15 Oct - Music by David del Tredici, Mozart, Harry Partch, Thought-Fox, Vasant Rai and Alla Rakha

AIR DATE:15 October 2011


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eX - Shipwrecked

Harry Partch

Mozart

Alla Rakha and Vasant Rai

David del Tredici's Final Alice
 

OFFBEAT 8 OCT - Music by Monteverdi, Kusasi Tribe, Baden Powell, Paul White Orchestra, Gershwin, Roy Harris and Robert Schumann

 AIR DATE: 8 October 2011

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An intimate Glenn Gould special: Stephen Posen, Executor of Gould's Estate, remembers his close friend on the eve of Gould's 79th Birthday

Stephen Posen and Karishmeh Felfeli

 

Glenn Gould (b. 25th September 1932)

"As far as I was concerned, Glenn was a warm, brilliant, funny fellow." - Stephen Posen

Air Date: 
24 August 2011

LISTEN TO PART 1 - Stephen Posen and Karishmeh Felfeli remember Glenn Gould 

LISTEN TO PART 2 - Stephen Posen and Karishmeh Felfeli remember Glenn Gould

This program is the second in a series of upcoming specials devised and produced by Karishmeh Felfeli and devoted to Glenn Gould between August 2011 and October 2012. On the eve of what would have been Glenn Gould's 79th Birthday, Offbeat presenter and Gould scholar Karishmeh Felfeli explores the Canadian man and musician whose work she has been researching for the past decade, and whose philosophies were instrumental in her own musical journey. In this intimate program, Karishmeh explores that side to Glenn Gould that is often glossed over, his empathetic, kind, good-natured, fun personality. Her guest on the program is Stephen Posen, a Toronto based lawyer, who was Glenn Gould's close friend, lawyer and who has been the Executor of the Estate of Glenn Gould since the time of the pianist's untimely death in 1982. Steve shares his thoughts on his friend, and also sheds some light on what he was like as a person, thereby debunking a lot of the common preconceptions people have about Glenn Gould. Karishmeh and Steve also discuss Gould's will and legacy, and its future for coming generations. The conversation is coloured by some musical examples - Bizet, Schoenberg, Beethoven, Liszt, Sibelius and Bach. Ultimately, this program is a simple tribute of sorts, shedding some light on Glenn Gould, human being extraordinaire, as opposed to the common perception of Gould as an "eccentric, musical genius." 

PLAYLIST
Schoenberg - Piano Concerto, Molto Allegro
Bach - Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, Fugue in F sharp major
Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano in G, Movt 3 - Scherzo Allegro Trio
Brahms - Concerto in d minor, Adagio*
Bizet - Nocturne in D major
Beethoven arr. Liszt  - Symphony No. 6* 
Bach - Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, Movt 2

All works marked with * are extracts, the rest of the musical examples are complete recordings.

For more information about any of the above recordings, and direct links to them on Amazon, check out Karishmeh's Glenn Gould Project Website "Read and Listen" page.

You can also get these recordings and much more on the iTunes Glenn Gould Page here

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• If you missed Karishmeh Felfeli's programs with Glenn Gould's biographer Kevin Bazzana you can listen to them here. 
• Check out Karishmeh's Glenn Gould Project Blog and Website to read her own thoughts on Gould, as well as on music, animals and life, or follow her on Twitter here. 
• Find out more about the CBC's upcoming 10 DVD collection "Glenn Gould on Television" here.
• Visit the Sony Classical Website about Glenn Gould.
• Find out more about the work of the Glenn Gould Foundation here. 

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OFFBEAT 17 Sept - Music by R.D.Burman, Stelios Kazantzidis, Chopin, Philip Martin, Berg, Charlie Palloy, Liszt

                       

AIR DATE: 17 September 2011
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PLAYLIST

Francesco Turrisi and the Zahr Project

AIR DATE: 27 August 2011, repeated on 3rd September 2011

Listen to the feature on Francesco Turrisi here
 

Featuring pianist/composer Francesco Turrisi in advance of his Zahr Project Irish tour and performance at the next Kaleidoscope Night which takes place on 7th September at the Odessa Club. 

A Journey to Iran, with writer Nicholas Jubber

Nicholas Jubber

 AIR DATE: 20 August 2011

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Featuring writer Nicholas Jubber as well as music, old and new, from Iran. 

The third program of the month to feature Karishmeh Felfeli in conversation with a writer, this edition of Offbeat is set in Iran. British-born writer Nicholas Jubber, author of "Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard" talks to Karishmeh about his travels in Iran (and Afghanistan), Zoroastrianism, modern-day Iran as compared to pre-revolution Iran, as well as Jubber's interest in the Persian poet Ferdowsi, whose Shahnameh, provides much of the inspiration in the travel writer's own book. The program also features music from Iran, some of which is inspired by sections of the Shahnameh, while a lot of it spans a wide variety of genres and eras - from western classical and symphonic, to popular and rap.