Nicolas Slonimsky

["Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=other_min
ds&collectionid=SlonimskyBerkPianoBar

I recently stumbled upon the internet archive.  There is some
incredible information available through that site...

Anyway, everybody wishing to enhance their musical prowess go the
forementioned link. It's a little slow at first but Nicolas Slonimsky
is one of the pioneers of moderned music and it will be worth taking
an hour and half to listen to his lecture from 1971.

Here a description from the website:
In this lecture and demonstration, Nicolas Slonimsky covers topics
such as polytonality, atonality, scales, the perils of introducing
the music of Charles Ives and Edgar Varese to the Hollywood Bowl
audiences in 1933, polyrhythm, and The Grandmother Chord. He then
recounts comments made about composers by their contemporary writers,
e.g., there are criticisms of Chopin, Wagner and Stravinsky. A review
of his experiences with Performance Art follows and is not to be
missed. Answers to questions on John Cage's 4'33", electronic music,
John Coltrane, microtonal composition, American women composers,
quarter tones, comments by Tchaikovsky on Brahms, comments on
Toscanini and Leonard Bernstein follow and conclude this whirlwind
tour of this gifted individual's complex and extraordinary mind.