The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever (Series)
Produced by 98.7 WFMT & the WFMT Radio Network
Most recent piece in this series:
November 4, 1964: The Premiere of Terry Riley’s In C
From 98.7 WFMT & the WFMT Radio Network | Part of the The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever series | 59:00
This piece, which debuted at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and the minimalist outpouring that it sparked, were a reaction to the rigid strictures of serialism and the stranglehold of the academic composers of the time.
February 24, 1607: The Premiere of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
From 98.7 WFMT & the WFMT Radio Network | Part of the The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever series | 59:00
Program 1 of 13
This is a program about the dawn of opera, but also about secular music becoming through-composed high art (something that had been the exclusive purview of church music). We’ll look at precursors to L’Orfeo in Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as Jacopo Perri’s Euridice, written a generation before Monteverdi.
