Program 831: Guy, Won’t You Play Your Accordion?
KALW Broadcast Date: June 29, 2025 | Host: Adrienne Cardwell
In memory of composer-accordionist Guy Klucevsek (February 26, 1947–May 22, 2025), Adrienne Cardwell presents a special batch of archival recordings ca. the 1980s focused on live performances by Klucevsek, and some of collaborators performing his works. Guy Klucevsek championed new music for the accordion and bridged a natural relativity between experimental and traditional musics with the instrument. Like Pauline Oliveros, he has also influenced how the accordion (and accordion player) are perceived and played, making room for new thought and sound. We’ll hear Klucevsek play his own works and others by Henry Cowell, Ramón Sender, William Duckworth, William Obrecht, Jim Hiscott, Arne Nordheim, William Schimmel, and Carl Finch.
Program Audio
30-Second Spot
Track Info & Links
Title: An Air of Gathering Pipers
Composer: Guy Klucevsek
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion
OM Archive ID: MC.1992.11.05.B
Title: Iridescent Rondo in Old Modes
Composer: Henry Cowell
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion
OM Archive ID: REL.1982.10.23.C
Title: Desert Ambulance
Composer: Ramón Sender Morningstar
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion and voice
OM Archive ID: REL.1982.06.11.D
Title: Oscillation #5
Composer: Guy Klucevsek
Performers: Laurel Wyckoff, flute; Florence Ierardi, percussion; Jerry Tannenbaum, percussion; Robert Zollman, percussion; John Dulik, piano
OM Archive ID: REL.1982.06.11.C
Title: Guy Won’t You Play Your Accordion
Composer: William Obrecht
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion and vocals
Title: Sweet Chinoiserie [arr. by Margaret Leng Tan]
Composer: Guy Klucevsek
Performer: Margaret Leng Tan, toy piano, toy accordion, melodica, toy drums & rattles, glasses, dishes and cans
OM Archive ID: OMF.1999.03.27.D
Title: Polking Around
Composer: William Duckworth
Performers: Guy Klucevsek, accordion
OM Archive ID: NMA.1987.10.07.2.c1.C
Title: MacCrimmon Will Never Return
Composer:Jim Hiscott
Performers: Steve Marcucci, alto saxophone; Guy Klucevsek, accordion
OM Archive ID: REL.1982.04.17.D
Title: Oscillation #2 for piano (1980)
Composer: Guy Klucevsek
Performer: Tina Davidson, piano
OM Archive ID: REL.1980.12.07.C
Title: The Grass It Is Blue (Ain’t Nothin’ But A Polka)
Composer: Guy Klucevsek
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion and vocals
OM Archive ID: NMA.1987.10.07.2.c1.Q
Title: Dinosaurus for Accordion and Tape
Composer: Arne Nordheim
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion
OM Archive ID: REL.1982.04.17.B
[Excerpt from Speaking of Music with Lois V Vierk]
Title: Scenes from a Mirage
Composer: Guy Klucevsek
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion
OM Archive ID: SOM.1987.04.23.B
Title: Fables
Composer: William Schimmel
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion
OM Archive ID: REL.1980.12.07.A
Title: Prairie Dogs Polka
Composer: Carl Finch
Performer: Guy Klucevsek, accordion
OM Archive ID: NMA.1987.10.07.2.c1.T
