184 - Interview with Joan La Barbara

singer and composer Joan speaks about her journey into singing, new music and composing. She worked with fellow musicians John Cage Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Steve Reich, Philip Glass and her husband, Morton Subotnick and talks about her experiences developing pieces with these composers who wrote for her unique abilities, concepts and specialized techniques. She talks about composing, writing and specific aspects of the human voice and how she found her own means of expressing her inner thoughts and ideas. www.JoanLaBarbara.com "Persistence of Memory" premiere performance at MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele https://vimeo.com/137767660 "Angels, Demons and Other Muses" performance (excerpt) at Roulette (NYC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nPu1xVc1ek Sesame Street signing alphabet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y819U6jBDog MTT, Jessye Norman and Joan La Barbara on John Cage's "Song Books" (interview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKvcjCyMbZE Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der „neuen musikzeitung“, dem Kooperationspartner von „neue musik leben“. www.nmz.de Wer mich nach 2 Jahren Podcast gerne finanziell unterstützen möchte, frage mich entweder nach meiner Bankverbindung oder schicke mir das Geld via Paypal über meine Email-Adresse: [email protected]. Jeder Betrag ist willkommen! Danke! Hier kannst du Band 1 das Buch zum Podcast bestellen: https://are-verlag.de/produkt/kurka-irene-neue-musik-leben-das-buch-zum-podcast-band-i/ www.irenekurka.de mail@irenekurka.de