Music and the mind of the world

1976

MATMOTW_1

Now Playing

Saturday, December 25, 1976

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

22:45

MATMOTW_2

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Saturday, December 25, 1976

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

31:27

MATMOTW_604

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Saturday, December 25, 1976

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

08:35

1977

MATMOTW_3

Now Playing

Saturday, January 8, 1977

Part 1

With Dan.

16:31

MATMOTW_4

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Saturday, January 8, 1977

Part 2

With Dan.

13:28

MATMOTW_5

Now Playing

Saturday, January 8, 1977

Part 3

With Dan.

30:04

MATMOTW_6

Now Playing

Tuesday, January 25, 1977 & Wednesday, January 26, 1977

Part 1

David's piano.

19:48

MATMOTW_7

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Tuesday, January 25, 1977 & Wednesday, January 26, 1977

Part 2

David's piano.

21:54

MATMOTW_8

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Tuesday, January 25, 1977 & Wednesday, January 26, 1977

Part 3

David's piano.

04:18

MATMOTW_9

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Tuesday, January 25, 1977 & Wednesday, January 26, 1977

Part 4

David's piano.

06:46

MATMOTW_10

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Tuesday, January 25, 1977 & Wednesday, January 26, 1977

Part 5

David's piano.

05:01

MATMOTW_14

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Thursday, May 5, 1977 & Friday, May 6, 1977

Part 1

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

11:55

MATMOTW_15

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Thursday, May 5, 1977 & Friday, May 6, 1977

Part 2

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

11:49

MATMOTW_16

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Thursday, May 5, 1977 & Friday, May 6, 1977

Part 3

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

15:14

MATMOTW_17

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Thursday, May 5, 1977 & Friday, May 6, 1977

Part 4

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

04:11

MATMOTW_11

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Saturday, May 7, 1977

Part 1

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

10:00

MATMOTW_12

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Saturday, May 7, 1977

Part 2

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

01:52

MATMOTW_13

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Saturday, May 7, 1977

Part 3

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

34:10

MATMOTW_18

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Saturday, May 7, 1977

Part 4

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

04:01

MATMOTW_19

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Saturday, May 7, 1977

Part 5

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

41:29

MATMOTW_20

Now Playing

Saturday, May 7, 1977

Part 6

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

45:47

MATMOTW_23

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Monday, May 23, 1977

45:03

MATMOTW_21

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Tuesday, May 24, 1977

Part 1

25:07

MATMOTW_22

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Tuesday, May 24, 1977

Part 2

19:54

MATMOTW_24

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Wednesday, May 25, 1977

Part 1

45:37

MATMOTW_25

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Wednesday, May 25, 1977

Part 2

22:58

MATMOTW_26

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Wednesday, May 25, 1977

Part 3

22:39

MATMOTW_28

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Thursday, May 26, 1977

Part 1

20:58

MATMOTW_29

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Thursday, May 26, 1977

Part 2

23:40

MATMOTW_30

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Thursday, May 26, 1977

Part 3

07:48

MATMOTW_27

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Sunday, May 29, 1977

Part 1

37:21

MATMOTW_35

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Sunday, May 29, 1977

Part 2

05:37

MATMOTW_33

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Wednesday, June 1, 1977

Part 1

39:57

MATMOTW_34

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Wednesday, June 1, 1977

Part 2

22:53

MATMOTW_36

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Thursday, June 2, 1977

Part 1

10:32

MATMOTW_37

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Thursday, June 2, 1977

Part 2

14:47

MATMOTW_31

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Thursday, June 2, 1977

Part 3

01:25

MATMOTW_32

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Thursday, June 2, 1977

Part 4

20:55

MATMOTW_38

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Friday, June 3, 1977

Part 1

20:33

MATMOTW_39

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Friday, June 3, 1977

Part 2

24:03

MATMOTW_40

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Friday, June 3, 1977

Part 3

21:54

MATMOTW_42

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Monday, June 6, 1977

Part 1

10:43

MATMOTW_43

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Monday, June 6, 1977

Part 2

29:42

MATMOTW_605

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Monday, June 6, 1977

Part 3

11:42

MATMOTW_606

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Monday, June 6, 1977

Part 4

19:51

MATMOTW_607

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Monday, June 6, 1977

Part 5

03:04

MATMOTW_608

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Monday, June 6, 1977

Part 6

15:28

MATMOTW_44

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Tuesday, June 7, 1977

Part 1

05:36

MATMOTW_45

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Tuesday, June 7, 1977

Part 2

19:28

MATMOTW_46

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Tuesday, June 7, 1977

Part 3

30:52

MATMOTW_609

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Tuesday, June 7, 1977

Part 4

05:32

MATMOTW_47

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Wednesday, June 8, 1977

Part 1

33:24

MATMOTW_48

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Wednesday, June 8, 1977

Part 2

08:58

MATMOTW_49

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Wednesday, June 8, 1977

Part 3

03:18

MATMOTW_51

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Thursday, June 9, 1977

18:15

MATMOTW_50

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Friday, June 10, 1977

Part 1

23:08

MATMOTW_52

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Friday, June 10, 1977

Part 2

34:29

MATMOTW_53

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Friday, June 10, 1977

Part 3

07:50

MATMOTW_54

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Friday, June 10, 1977

Part 4

25:18

MATMOTW_55

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Friday, June 10, 1977

Part 5

20:25

MATMOTW_58

Now Playing

Friday, June 17, 1977

Part 1

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

03:53

MATMOTW_59

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Friday, June 17, 1977

Part 2

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

09:52

MATMOTW_60

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Friday, June 17, 1977

Part 3

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

11:08

MATMOTW_61

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Friday, June 17, 1977

Part 4

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

06:52

MATMOTW_62

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Friday, June 17, 1977

Part 5

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

12:27

MATMOTW_56

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Saturday, June 18, 1977

Part 1

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

12:04

MATMOTW_57

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Saturday, June 18, 1977

Part 2

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

32:06

MATMOTW_63

Now Playing

Monday, August 22, 1977 & Tuesday, August 23, 1977

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

09:52

MATMOTW_64

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Monday, August 22, 1977 & Tuesday, August 23, 1977

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

08:41

MATMOTW_65

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Monday, August 22, 1977 & Tuesday, August 23, 1977

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

02:43

MATMOTW_66

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Monday, August 22, 1977 & Tuesday, August 23, 1977

Part 4

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

09:45

MATMOTW_67

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Monday, August 22, 1977 & Tuesday, August 23, 1977

Part 5

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

09:58

MATMOTW_68

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Monday, August 22, 1977 & Tuesday, August 23, 1977

Part 6

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

21:14

MATMOTW_69

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Thursday, August 25, 1977

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

12:40

MATMOTW_70

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Thursday, August 25, 1977

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

30:56

MATMOTW_71

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Thursday, August 25, 1977

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

04:01

MATMOTW_610

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Thursday, August 25, 1977

Part 4

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

16:44

MATMOTW_611

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Thursday, August 25, 1977

Part 5

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

01:37

MATMOTW_72

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Friday, August 26, 1977

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

30:07

MATMOTW_73

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Friday, August 26, 1977

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

10:04

MATMOTW_612

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Friday, August 26, 1977

Part 3

04:07

MATMOTW_613

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Friday, August 26, 1977

Part 4

02:24

MATMOTW_614

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Friday, August 26, 1977

Part 5

05:38

MATMOTW_74

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Saturday, September 17, 1977

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

15:26

MATMOTW_75

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Saturday, September 17, 1977

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

15:37

MATMOTW_76

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Saturday, September 17, 1977

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

08:49

MATMOTW_77

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Saturday, September 17, 1977

Part 4

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

22:16

MATMOTW_78

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

31:10

MATMOTW_87

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 10

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

17:08

MATMOTW_88

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 11

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

04:56

MATMOTW_89

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 12

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

04:58

MATMOTW_90

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 13

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

02:17

MATMOTW_91

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 14

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

12:44

MATMOTW_92

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 15

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

32:36

MATMOTW_93

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 16

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

10:19

MATMOTW_79

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

03:05

MATMOTW_80

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

05:17

MATMOTW_81

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 4

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

04:30

MATMOTW_82

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 5

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

09:03

MATMOTW_83

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 6

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

03:01

MATMOTW_84

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 7

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

18:58

MATMOTW_615

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 7

05:54

MATMOTW_85

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 8

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

08:00

MATMOTW_86

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Sunday, September 18, 1977

Part 9

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

04:09

MATMOTW_95

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Monday, September 19, 1977

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

04:15

MATMOTW_96

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Monday, September 19, 1977

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

02:07

MATMOTW_98

Now Playing

Tuesday, September 20, 1977

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

11:34

MATMOTW_99

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Tuesday, September 20, 1977

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

31:13

MATMOTW_619

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Tuesday, September 20, 1977

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

19:35

MATMOTW_100

Now Playing

Thursday, September 29, 1977

Part 1

30:32

MATMOTW_101

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Thursday, September 29, 1977

Part 2

19:28

MATMOTW_102

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Thursday, September 29, 1977

Part 3

11:03

MATMOTW_103

Now Playing

Friday, September 30, 1977

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

21:44

MATMOTW_108

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Friday, September 30, 1977

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

20:23

MATMOTW_109

Now Playing

Friday, September 30, 1977

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

24:06

MATMOTW_110

Now Playing

Friday, September 30, 1977

Part 4

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

01:28

MATMOTW_104

Now Playing

Tuesday, October 4, 1977

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

09:28

MATMOTW_105

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Tuesday, October 4, 1977

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

29:03

MATMOTW_106

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Tuesday, October 4, 1977

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

02:09

MATMOTW_94

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Tuesday, October 4, 1977

Part 4

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

34:25

MATMOTW_107

Now Playing

Friday, October 7, 1977

11:40

MATMOTW_114

Now Playing

Sunday, October 9, 1977

Part 1

Whiteman Street. Yellow Springs, Ohio.

02:14

MATMOTW_115

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Sunday, October 9, 1977

Part 2

Whiteman Street. Yellow Springs, Ohio.

11:16

MATMOTW_116

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Sunday, October 9, 1977

Part 3

Whiteman Street. Yellow Springs, Ohio.

02:17

MATMOTW_117

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Sunday, October 9, 1977

Part 4

Whiteman Street. Yellow Springs, Ohio.

27:08

MATMOTW_97

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Tuesday, October 11, 1977

Part 1

02:14

MATMOTW_616

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Tuesday, October 11, 1977

Part 2

16:30

MATMOTW_617

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Tuesday, October 11, 1977

Part 3

04:48

MATMOTW_618

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Tuesday, October 11, 1977

Part 4

07:36

MATMOTW_122

Now Playing

Thursday, October 13, 1977

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

46:02

MATMOTW_123

Now Playing

Friday, October 14, 1977

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

45:58

MATMOTW_118

Now Playing

Friday, October 14, 1977

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

33:56

MATMOTW_119

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Friday, October 14, 1977

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

04:34

MATMOTW_120

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Friday, October 14, 1977

Part 4

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

03:15

MATMOTW_121

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Friday, October 14, 1977

Part 5

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

03:17

MATMOTW_124

Now Playing

Saturday, October 15, 1977

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:34

MATMOTW_125

Now Playing

Saturday, October 15, 1977

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

09:36

MATMOTW_126

Now Playing

Thursday, October 20, 1977

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano (Heintzman). With Polidori.

12:54

MATMOTW_600

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Thursday, October 20, 1977

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano (Heintzman). With Polidori.

15:58

MATMOTW_127

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Thursday, October 20, 1977

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano (Heintzman). With Polidori.

29:25

MATMOTW_128

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Thursday, October 20, 1977

Part 4

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano (Heintzman). With Polidori.

13:02

MATMOTW_129

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Thursday, October 20, 1977

Part 5

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano (Heintzman). With Polidori.

17:51

MATMOTW_130

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Thursday, October 20, 1977

Part 6

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano (Heintzman). With Polidori.

26:01

MATMOTW_131

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Thursday, October 20, 1977

Part 7

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano (Heintzman). With Polidori.

04:27

MATMOTW_132

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Friday, October 21, 1977

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:37

MATMOTW_133

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Friday, October 21, 1977

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:37

MATMOTW_135

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Friday, October 21, 1977

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:00

MATMOTW_113

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Wednesday, October 26, 1977

30:00

MATMOTW_41

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Friday, October 28, 1977

29:48

MATMOTW_136

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Saturday, October 29, 1977

30:01

MATMOTW_138

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Monday, October 31, 1977

Part 1

45:46

MATMOTW_139

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Monday, October 31, 1977

Part 2

45:37

MATMOTW_137

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Monday, October 31, 1977

Part 3

30:03

MATMOTW_111

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1977-10-Unknown

Part 1

19:05

MATMOTW_112

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1977-10-Unknown

Part 2

10:39

MATMOTW_141

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Tuesday, November 1, 1977

24:41

MATMOTW_143

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Wednesday, November 2, 1977

Part 1

19:58

MATMOTW_144

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Wednesday, November 2, 1977

Part 2

10:54

MATMOTW_142

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Thursday, November 3, 1977

30:46

MATMOTW_147

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Sunday, November 6, 1977

Part 1

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

16:10

MATMOTW_148

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Sunday, November 6, 1977

Part 2

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

10:04

MATMOTW_150

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Thursday, November 10, 1977

30:52

MATMOTW_149

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Sunday, November 13, 1977

25:17

MATMOTW_620

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Sunday, November 13, 1977

05:10

MATMOTW_151

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Monday, November 14, 1977

45:47

MATMOTW_145

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Tuesday, November 15, 1977

Part 1

09:26

MATMOTW_146

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Tuesday, November 15, 1977

Part 2

18:24

MATMOTW_156

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Tuesday, November 15, 1977

Part 3

21:16

MATMOTW_152

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Wednesday, November 16, 1977

Part 1

45:20

MATMOTW_157

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Wednesday, November 16, 1977

Part 2

06:27

MATMOTW_158

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Wednesday, November 16, 1977

Part 3

00:18

MATMOTW_160

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Wednesday, November 16, 1977

Part 4

45:03

MATMOTW_134

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Sunday, November 20, 1977

09:41

MATMOTW_159

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Wednesday, November 23, 1977

Part 1

45:35

MATMOTW_140

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Wednesday, November 23, 1977

Part 2

24:33

MATMOTW_162

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Monday, November 28, 1977

31:30

MATMOTW_161

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Tuesday, November 29, 1977

31:23

MATMOTW_165

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Wednesday, November 30, 1977

31:13

MATMOTW_163

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Saturday, December 3, 1977

25:44

MATMOTW_164

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Monday, December 5, 1977

Part 1

05:29

MATMOTW_166

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Monday, December 5, 1977

Part 2

30:41

MATMOTW_167

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Tuesday, December 6, 1977

30:57

MATMOTW_168

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Wednesday, December 7, 1977

Part 1

30:49

MATMOTW_170

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Wednesday, December 7, 1977

Part 2

13:54

MATMOTW_169

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Wednesday, December 7, 1977

Part 3

02:54

MATMOTW_172

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Monday, December 12, 1977

30:51

MATMOTW_175

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Friday, December 16, 1977

30:23

MATMOTW_173

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Sunday, December 18, 1977

Part 1

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

01:31

MATMOTW_176

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Sunday, December 18, 1977

Part 2

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

31:14

MATMOTW_177

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Sunday, December 18, 1977

Part 3

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

11:08

MATMOTW_174

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Sunday, December 18, 1977

Part 4

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

03:57

MATMOTW_178

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Monday, December 26, 1977

30:24

MATMOTW_182

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Tuesday, December 27, 1977 & Wednesday, December 28, 1977

Part 1

28:39

MATMOTW_621

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Tuesday, December 27, 1977 & Wednesday, December 28, 1977

Part 2

16:49

MATMOTW_179

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Tuesday, December 27, 1977

Part 1

30:37

MATMOTW_180

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Tuesday, December 27, 1977

Part 2

30:31

MATMOTW_181

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Wednesday, December 28, 1977

45:32

MATMOTW_186

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Thursday, December 29, 1977

Part 1

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

07:58

MATMOTW_185

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Thursday, December 29, 1977

Part 2

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

20:45

MATMOTW_184

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Thursday, December 29, 1977

Part 3

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

10:06

MATMOTW_183

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Thursday, December 29, 1977

Part 4

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

04:18

MATMOTW_188

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Thursday, December 29, 1977

Part 5

Tiding Over'. The Kitchen. New York, New York.

04:40

MATMOTW_189

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Thursday, December 29, 1977

Part 6

Tiding Over'. The Kitchen. New York, New York.

04:54

MATMOTW_187

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Thursday, December 29, 1977

Part 7

Tiding Over'. The Kitchen. New York, New York.

25:54

MATMOTW_622

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Thursday, December 29, 1977

Part 8

Tiding Over'. The Kitchen. New York, New York.

24:55

MATMOTW_190

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Friday, December 30, 1977

Part 1

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

31:07

MATMOTW_191

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Friday, December 30, 1977

Part 2

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

20:06

MATMOTW_192

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Friday, December 30, 1977

Part 3

Tiding Over'. The Kitchen. New York, New York.

31:10

MATMOTW_193

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Friday, December 30, 1977

Part 4

Tiding Over'. The Kitchen. New York, New York.

21:59

1978

MATMOTW_195

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Sunday, January 1, 1978

Part 1

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

30:54

MATMOTW_196

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Sunday, January 1, 1978

Part 2

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

01:26

MATMOTW_194

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Sunday, January 1, 1978

Part 3

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

06:01

MATMOTW_197

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Sunday, January 1, 1978

Part 4

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

31:02

MATMOTW_198

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Sunday, January 1, 1978

Part 5

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

05:59

MATMOTW_199

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Monday, January 2, 1978

18:00

MATMOTW_171

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Friday, January 13, 1978

30:41

MATMOTW_200

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Thursday, January 19, 1978

28:06

MATMOTW_204

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Friday, January 20, 1978

30:55

MATMOTW_205

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Saturday, January 21, 1978

30:53

MATMOTW_206

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Sunday, January 22, 1978

Part 1

30:36

MATMOTW_207

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Sunday, January 22, 1978

Part 2

30:39

MATMOTW_208

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Monday, January 23, 1978

Part 1

24:30

MATMOTW_209

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Monday, January 23, 1978

Part 2

31:06

MATMOTW_623

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Monday, January 23, 1978

Part 3

05:03

MATMOTW_210

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Tuesday, January 24, 1978

Part 1

25:02

MATMOTW_601

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Tuesday, January 24, 1978

Part 2

05:23

MATMOTW_211

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Tuesday, January 24, 1978

Part 3

30:38

MATMOTW_201

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1978-01-Unknown

Part 1

10:18

MATMOTW_202

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1978-01-Unknown

Part 2

10:58

MATMOTW_203

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1978-01-Unknown

Part 3

06:37

MATMOTW_213

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Monday, February 6, 1978

Part 1

26:49

MATMOTW_212

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Monday, February 6, 1978

Part 2

03:36

MATMOTW_624

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Monday, February 6, 1978

Part 3

03:43

MATMOTW_214

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Thursday, March 2, 1978

Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley, California.

25:40

MATMOTW_216

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Saturday, March 18, 1978

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

26:49

MATMOTW_217

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Saturday, March 18, 1978

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

03:53

MATMOTW_215

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Saturday, March 18, 1978

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

30:55

MATMOTW_218

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Saturday, March 18, 1978

Part 4

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano. With Dan.

22:23

MATMOTW_219

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Saturday, March 18, 1978

Part 5

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano. With Dan.

05:18

MATMOTW_220

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Saturday, March 18, 1978

Part 6

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano. With Dan.

03:05

MATMOTW_221

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Sunday, March 19, 1978

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

30:59

MATMOTW_222

Now Playing

Sunday, March 19, 1978

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano. With Dan.

30:08

MATMOTW_223

Now Playing

Sunday, March 19, 1978

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano. With Dan.

30:11

MATMOTW_225

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Sunday, March 19, 1978

Part 4

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

16:06

MATMOTW_226

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Sunday, March 19, 1978

Part 5

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

13:38

MATMOTW_224

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Monday, March 20, 1978

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

13:58

MATMOTW_227

Now Playing

Saturday, March 25, 1978

Part 1

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

12:44

MATMOTW_228

Now Playing

Saturday, March 25, 1978

Part 2

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

02:27

MATMOTW_229

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Saturday, March 25, 1978

Part 3

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

12:27

MATMOTW_230

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Saturday, March 25, 1978

Part 4

Anne's house. Newton, Massachusetts.

15:11

MATMOTW_231

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Wednesday, April 26, 1978

40:59

MATMOTW_233

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Sunday, June 25, 1978

Part 1

30:45

MATMOTW_234

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Sunday, June 25, 1978

Part 2

30:33

MATMOTW_237

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Tuesday, June 27, 1978

30:44

MATMOTW_235

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Wednesday, June 28, 1978

Part 1

13:50

MATMOTW_236

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Wednesday, June 28, 1978

Part 2

16:34

MATMOTW_238

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Thursday, June 29, 1978

Part 1

46:09

MATMOTW_239

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Thursday, June 29, 1978

Part 2

46:14

MATMOTW_241

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Thursday, June 29, 1978

Part 3

46:17

MATMOTW_240

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Monday, July 3, 1978

Part 1

46:18

MATMOTW_242

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Monday, July 3, 1978

Part 2

30:43

MATMOTW_243

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Monday, July 3, 1978

Part 3

30:46

MATMOTW_244

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Tuesday, July 4, 1978

Part 1

28:16

MATMOTW_625

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Tuesday, July 4, 1978

Part 2

03:59

MATMOTW_626

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Tuesday, July 4, 1978

Part 3

07:12

MATMOTW_627

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Tuesday, July 4, 1978

Part 4

04:11

MATMOTW_246

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Thursday, July 6, 1978

Part 1

30:35

MATMOTW_247

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Thursday, July 6, 1978

Part 2

09:58

MATMOTW_248

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Thursday, July 6, 1978

Part 3

19:44

MATMOTW_245

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Sunday, July 9, 1978

46:18

MATMOTW_249

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Tuesday, July 11, 1978

Part 1

30:02

MATMOTW_250

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Tuesday, July 11, 1978

Part 2

30:42

MATMOTW_251

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Tuesday, July 11, 1978

Part 3

30:35

MATMOTW_252

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Tuesday, July 11, 1978

Part 4

30:36

MATMOTW_253

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Tuesday, July 11, 1978

Part 5

30:40

MATMOTW_254

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Tuesday, July 11, 1978

Part 6

30:46

MATMOTW_255

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Wednesday, July 12, 1978

Part 1

30:45

MATMOTW_256

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Wednesday, July 12, 1978

Part 2

30:49

MATMOTW_257

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Wednesday, July 19, 1978

Part 1

20:25

MATMOTW_258

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Wednesday, July 19, 1978

Part 2

30:39

MATMOTW_259

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Wednesday, July 19, 1978

Part 3

30:26

MATMOTW_260

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Monday, July 24, 1978

Part 4

30:40

MATMOTW_261

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Wednesday, July 26, 1978

Part 1

30:37

MATMOTW_262

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Wednesday, July 26, 1978

Part 2

30:39

MATMOTW_263

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Thursday, July 27, 1978

Part 1

46:28

MATMOTW_264

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Thursday, July 27, 1978

Part 2

29:37

MATMOTW_265

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 2, 1978

Part 1

30:41

MATMOTW_269

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Thursday, August 3, 1978 & Friday, August 4, 1978

24:14

MATMOTW_266

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Thursday, August 3, 1978

Part 2

30:45

MATMOTW_267

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Friday, August 4, 1978

Part 1

06:37

MATMOTW_268

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Friday, August 4, 1978

Part 2

31:18

MATMOTW_271

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Tuesday, August 8, 1978

Part 1

28:35

MATMOTW_628

Now Playing

Tuesday, August 8, 1978

Part 2

01:46

MATMOTW_270

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Thursday, August 10, 1978

30:55

MATMOTW_274

Now Playing

Monday, September 4, 1978 & Tuesday, September 5, 1978

Yellow Springs, Ohio. Ted's piano.

31:14

MATMOTW_276

Now Playing

Wednesday, September 20, 1978

12:38

MATMOTW_279

Now Playing

Friday, September 22, 1978

31:10

MATMOTW_280

Now Playing

Wednesday, September 27, 1978

21:09

MATMOTW_273

Now Playing

1978-09-Unknown

30:32

MATMOTW_281

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Thursday, October 5, 1978

30:27

MATMOTW_277

Now Playing

Friday, October 13, 1978 & Saturday, October 14, 1978

Part 1

18:07

MATMOTW_278

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Friday, October 13, 1978 & Saturday, October 14, 1978

Part 2

05:34

MATMOTW_285

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Tuesday, October 24, 1978

28:47

MATMOTW_287

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Thursday, October 26, 1978

Part 1

Unknown public library. Electric piano.

30:52

MATMOTW_288

Now Playing

Thursday, October 26, 1978

Part 2

Unknown public library. Electric piano.

30:52

MATMOTW_289

Now Playing

Friday, October 27, 1978

Part 1

30:54

MATMOTW_290

Now Playing

Friday, October 27, 1978

Part 2

30:48

MATMOTW_272

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1978-10-Unknown

27:25

MATMOTW_629

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1978-10-Unknown

02:50

MATMOTW_291

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Wednesday, November 1, 1978

30:42

MATMOTW_292

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Sunday, November 5, 1978

Part 1

30:42

MATMOTW_293

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Sunday, November 5, 1978

Part 2

46:04

MATMOTW_282

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Monday, November 6, 1978

30:34

MATMOTW_294

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Thursday, November 16, 1978

Part 1

46:05

MATMOTW_296

Now Playing

Thursday, November 16, 1978

Part 2

04:03

MATMOTW_297

Now Playing

Friday, November 17, 1978

Part 1

Media Study storefront. University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano. With Andre and John.

27:44

MATMOTW_298

Now Playing

Friday, November 17, 1978

Part 2

Media Study storefront. University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano. With Andre and John.

02:42

MATMOTW_299

Now Playing

Friday, November 24, 1978

Part 1

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

12:14

MATMOTW_300

Now Playing

Friday, November 24, 1978

Part 2

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

30:38

MATMOTW_630

Now Playing

Friday, November 24, 1978

Part 3

Conrad family home. Baldwin, Maryland. Steinway piano.

17:08

1979

MATMOTW_301

Now Playing

Monday, January 15, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

02:54

MATMOTW_302

Now Playing

Monday, January 15, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

26:23

MATMOTW_303

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Monday, January 15, 1979

Part 3

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

27:19

MATMOTW_304

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Tuesday, January 16, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

25:08

MATMOTW_305

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Tuesday, January 16, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

04:36

MATMOTW_306

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Tuesday, January 16, 1979

Part 3

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

09:45

MATMOTW_631

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Tuesday, January 16, 1979

Part 4

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

20:01

MATMOTW_307

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Wednesday, January 17, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:43

MATMOTW_308

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Wednesday, January 17, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:45

MATMOTW_309

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Thursday, January 18, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

29:54

MATMOTW_310

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Thursday, January 18, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

23:25

MATMOTW_311

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Saturday, January 20, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:54

MATMOTW_312

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Saturday, January 20, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:53

MATMOTW_317

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Sunday, January 21, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:49

MATMOTW_318

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Sunday, January 21, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:51

MATMOTW_315

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Sunday, January 21, 1979

Part 3

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

19:50

MATMOTW_316

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Sunday, January 21, 1979

Part 4

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

04:36

MATMOTW_319

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Monday, January 22, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:52

MATMOTW_320

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Monday, January 22, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:45

MATMOTW_321

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Tuesday, January 23, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:55

MATMOTW_322

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Tuesday, January 23, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

31:08

MATMOTW_314

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Tuesday, January 23, 1979

Part 3

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

06:14

MATMOTW_323

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Wednesday, January 24, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

30:38

MATMOTW_324

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Wednesday, January 24, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

06:39

MATMOTW_632

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Wednesday, January 24, 1979

Part 3

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

08:13

MATMOTW_313

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Thursday, January 25, 1979

30:54

MATMOTW_325

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Monday, February 5, 1979

Part 1

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

15:41

MATMOTW_326

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Monday, February 5, 1979

Part 2

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

03:57

MATMOTW_329

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Tuesday, February 13, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

23:28

MATMOTW_633

Now Playing

Tuesday, February 13, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

06:34

MATMOTW_328

Now Playing

Monday, February 26, 1979

28:29

MATMOTW_330

Now Playing

Tuesday, February 27, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

15:49

MATMOTW_331

Now Playing

Tuesday, February 27, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

15:50

MATMOTW_332

Now Playing

Wednesday, February 28, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

06:15

MATMOTW_333

Now Playing

Wednesday, February 28, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

00:40

MATMOTW_334

Now Playing

Wednesday, February 28, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

13:56

MATMOTW_335

Now Playing

Wednesday, February 28, 1979

Part 4

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

15:28

MATMOTW_338

Now Playing

Monday, March 19, 1979

30:00

MATMOTW_336

Now Playing

Thursday, March 22, 1979

Part 1

16:06

MATMOTW_337

Now Playing

Thursday, March 22, 1979

Part 2

08:58

MATMOTW_339

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Friday, April 6, 1979

Part 1

05:33

MATMOTW_340

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Friday, April 6, 1979

Part 2

30:16

MATMOTW_341

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Wednesday, April 25, 1979

Part 1

Peterborough, Ontario.

02:33

MATMOTW_342

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Wednesday, April 25, 1979

Part 2

Peterborough, Ontario.

20:05

MATMOTW_634

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Wednesday, April 25, 1979

Part 3

Peterborough, Ontario.

22:26

MATMOTW_343

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Sunday, May 20, 1979

Part 1

30:43

MATMOTW_344

Now Playing

Sunday, May 20, 1979

Part 2

25:41

MATMOTW_345

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Sunday, May 20, 1979

Part 3

With Andre.

30:54

MATMOTW_346

Now Playing

Sunday, May 20, 1979

Part 4

With Andre.

30:51

MATMOTW_347

Now Playing

Monday, May 21, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:47

MATMOTW_348

Now Playing

Monday, May 21, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

08:05

MATMOTW_349

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Monday, May 21, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

04:07

MATMOTW_350

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Wednesday, May 23, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

16:04

MATMOTW_351

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Wednesday, May 23, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

14:29

MATMOTW_352

Now Playing

Wednesday, May 23, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

26:24

MATMOTW_353

Now Playing

Wednesday, May 23, 1979

Part 4

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

04:20

MATMOTW_354

Now Playing

Thursday, May 24, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:49

MATMOTW_355

Now Playing

Thursday, May 24, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:47

MATMOTW_356

Now Playing

Thursday, May 24, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

03:32

MATMOTW_357

Now Playing

Sunday, May 27, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

18:33

MATMOTW_358

Now Playing

Sunday, May 27, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:55

MATMOTW_635

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Sunday, May 27, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

12:57

MATMOTW_359

Now Playing

Monday, May 28, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

14:10

MATMOTW_360

Now Playing

Monday, May 28, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

16:27

MATMOTW_361

Now Playing

Monday, May 28, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:36

MATMOTW_365

Now Playing

Saturday, June 2, 1979

Part 1

David's cimbalom.

14:58

MATMOTW_366

Now Playing

Saturday, June 2, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

28:25

MATMOTW_363

Now Playing

Sunday, June 3, 1979

David's cimbalom.

13:53

MATMOTW_362

Now Playing

Monday, June 4, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

16:35

MATMOTW_663

Now Playing

Monday, June 4, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

13:00

MATMOTW_364

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Tuesday, June 5, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

43:45

MATMOTW_367

Now Playing

Wednesday, June 6, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

05:38

MATMOTW_368

Now Playing

Wednesday, June 6, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

24:48

MATMOTW_369

Now Playing

Wednesday, June 6, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:38

MATMOTW_370

Now Playing

Monday, June 11, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:38

MATMOTW_371

Now Playing

Monday, June 11, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:41

MATMOTW_372

Now Playing

Monday, June 11, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:55

MATMOTW_373

Now Playing

Tuesday, June 12, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:49

MATMOTW_374

Now Playing

Tuesday, June 12, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

12:10

MATMOTW_375

Now Playing

Tuesday, June 12, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

18:32

MATMOTW_376

Now Playing

Tuesday, June 12, 1979

Part 4

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:52

MATMOTW_377

Now Playing

Wednesday, June 13, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:44

MATMOTW_379

Now Playing

Wednesday, June 13, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

15:04

MATMOTW_381

Now Playing

Thursday, June 14, 1979

The Kitchen. New York, New York.

23:27

MATMOTW_382

Now Playing

Monday, June 18, 1979 & Monday, August 20, 1979

Part 1

00:14

MATMOTW_383

Now Playing

Monday, June 18, 1979 & Monday, August 20, 1979

Part 2

29:50

MATMOTW_384

Now Playing

Monday, June 18, 1979 & Monday, August 20, 1979

Part 3

10:13

MATMOTW_385

Now Playing

Monday, June 18, 1979 & Monday, August 20, 1979

Part 4

03:56

MATMOTW_386

Now Playing

Monday, June 18, 1979 & Monday, August 20, 1979

Part 5

06:27

MATMOTW_387

Now Playing

Monday, June 18, 1979 & Monday, August 20, 1979

Part 6

09:47

MATMOTW_388

Now Playing

Tuesday, June 19, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

25:57

MATMOTW_389

Now Playing

Tuesday, June 19, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

03:59

MATMOTW_390

Now Playing

Tuesday, June 19, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:20

MATMOTW_391

Now Playing

Friday, June 29, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

28:39

MATMOTW_392

Now Playing

Friday, June 29, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

23:59

MATMOTW_393

Now Playing

Friday, June 29, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

06:27

MATMOTW_396

Now Playing

Monday, July 16, 1979 & Tuesday, July 17, 1979

30:51

MATMOTW_394

Now Playing

1979-07-Unknown

Part 1

30:20

MATMOTW_395

Now Playing

1979-07-Unknown

Part 2

07:50

MATMOTW_399

Now Playing

Sunday, August 5, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

24:55

MATMOTW_398

Now Playing

Monday, August 6, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

31:09

MATMOTW_402

Now Playing

Tuesday, August 7, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

23:23

MATMOTW_636

Now Playing

Tuesday, August 7, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

06:42

MATMOTW_400

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 8, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

14:12

MATMOTW_401

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 8, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

15:59

MATMOTW_403

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 8, 1979

Part 3

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

25:13

MATMOTW_404

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 8, 1979

Part 4

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

05:21

MATMOTW_405

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 8, 1979

Part 5

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

06:21

MATMOTW_637

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 8, 1979

Part 6

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

11:45

MATMOTW_406

Now Playing

Monday, August 13, 1979

WYSO radio station. Antioch College. Yellow Springs, Ohio.

24:58

MATMOTW_407

Now Playing

Thursday, August 16, 1979 & Saturday, August 18, 1979

Part 1

WYSO radio station. Antioch College. Yellow Springs, Ohio.

03:03

MATMOTW_408

Now Playing

Thursday, August 16, 1979 & Saturday, August 18, 1979

Part 2

WYSO radio station. Antioch College. Yellow Springs, Ohio.

10:14

MATMOTW_409

Now Playing

Saturday, August 18, 1979

Part 1

Yellow Springs, Ohio. Ted's piano.

04:47

MATMOTW_410

Now Playing

Saturday, August 18, 1979

Part 2

Yellow Springs, Ohio. Ted's piano.

01:55

MATMOTW_411

Now Playing

Saturday, August 18, 1979

Part 3

Yellow Springs, Ohio. Ted's piano.

00:16

MATMOTW_412

Now Playing

Monday, August 20, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

17:34

MATMOTW_414

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 22, 1979 & Tuesday, September 4, 1979

Part 1

09:56

MATMOTW_415

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 22, 1979 & Tuesday, September 4, 1979

Part 2

16:25

MATMOTW_416

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 22, 1979 & Tuesday, September 4, 1979

Part 3

20:39

MATMOTW_417

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 22, 1979 & Tuesday, September 4, 1979

Part 4

11:25

MATMOTW_418

Now Playing

Wednesday, August 22, 1979 & Tuesday, September 4, 1979

Part 5

12:48

MATMOTW_419

Now Playing

Thursday, August 23, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

28:12

MATMOTW_420

Now Playing

Thursday, August 23, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

02:49

MATMOTW_421

Now Playing

Saturday, August 25, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:42

MATMOTW_422

Now Playing

Saturday, August 25, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

30:38

MATMOTW_423

Now Playing

Monday, September 3, 1979

30:27

MATMOTW_424

Now Playing

Tuesday, September 4, 1979

30:53

MATMOTW_425

Now Playing

Wednesday, September 5, 1979

30:43

MATMOTW_426

Now Playing

Tuesday, October 16, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

07:39

MATMOTW_638

Now Playing

Tuesday, October 16, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

38:44

MATMOTW_427

Now Playing

Thursday, October 18, 1979

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

47:01

MATMOTW_430

Now Playing

Monday, October 22, 1979

Part 1

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

12:44

MATMOTW_639

Now Playing

Monday, October 22, 1979

Part 2

University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

33:55

MATMOTW_428

Now Playing

Thursday, October 25, 1979

Part 1

09:25

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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David's cimbalom.

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Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York. Stuyvesant Pianola piano.

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Antioch College. Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Buffalo, New York.

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Albany, New York.

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1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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Sunday, April 27, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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Friday, May 2, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha piano.

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Monday, May 5, 1980

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Monday, May 5, 1980

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Tuesday, May 6, 1980

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Wednesday, May 7, 1980

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Third Street Music School. New York, New York. Steinway piano.

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Friday, May 9, 1980

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The Kitchen. New York, New York.

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The Kitchen. New York, New York.

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The Kitchen. New York, New York.

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The Kitchen. New York, New York.

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The Kitchen. New York, New York.

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Saturday, May 10, 1980

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The Kitchen. New York, New York.

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Monday, May 12, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 136 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 136 piano.

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Friday, May 23, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha CLP 133 piano.

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Friday, May 23, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha CLP 133 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha CLP 133 piano.

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Monday, May 26, 1980

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With Barb.

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With Barb.

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With Barb.

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Tuesday, May 27, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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Thursday, May 29, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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Friday, May 30, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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Friday, May 30, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Vorsetzer piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 140 piano.

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Tuesday, June 10, 1980

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 132 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 132 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 132 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 132 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 132 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 136 piano.

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University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 136 piano.

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University of California, San Diego.

10:45

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University of California, San Diego.

36:39

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Sunday, June 15, 1980

University of California, San Diego. Yamaha 133 piano.

22:50

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Friday, June 20, 1980

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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California. Lester Spinet piano.

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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California. Lester Spinet piano.

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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California. Lester Spinet piano.

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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California. Lester Spinet piano.

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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California. Lester Spinet piano.

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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California. Lester Spinet piano.

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Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California. Lester Spinet piano.

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Monday, October 20, 1980

Barb's house. Fischer piano.

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Barb's house. Fischer piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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Fischer piano.

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Fischer piano.

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Fischer piano.

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Fischer piano.

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Fischer piano.

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Rob's electric piano.

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Rob's electric piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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University at Buffalo, New York. Weber piano.

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ABOUT THE WORK

From 1976 to 1982, Tony Conrad (1940-2016) created “Music and the Mind of the World,” a piano composition comprising over 200 hours of recorded music. During this time everything Conrad played on the piano was recorded (with the incidental exception of perhaps three or four hours). In this endeavor – which includes the sounds of practicing, banging on the keys, formal exercises, experiments with the harmonic sonority of the piano itself, and even “On Top of Old Smokey” – we witness what might in essence be described as the total encounter between an improvising performer and the central instrument of Western musical culture. Now, for the first time, this influential yet largely unknown work has been published by Arcangel Surfware and is now available online for free at the domain musicandthemindofthe.world.

Me and My Piano: Music and the Mind of the World

May, 2010 Tony Conrad

In 1938, Arthur, my father, got a phonograph for Christmas. Maybe it was fancy for its time; it had a beautiful tall speaker unit, perhaps as tall as I am now, and the radio-phonograph was housed in the top of a blanket chest cabinet, separate from the speaker housing. Did I mention that the phonograph only played 78 rpm records? With re-sharpenable cactus needles? No, I didn’t need to mention that, because that was the only kind of record available in those days. Arthur’s wife Mary, my mother, liked to listen to the opera when it was broadcast from the Met by Texaco, every weekend, but other than that, she took a limited interest in music. I was born in 1940. When I was three or four, I got a little album of 78 rpm records for Christmas one year, and some kind of little phonograph that I could use to play them. It was really my first experience with music of any kind.

On the album, there was a sticker expressing the fact that due to wartime conditions the records were not unbreakable. I was careful with them. They were 7 inch records of classical music melodies: “Humoresque,” something from the “Nutcracker Suite,” an instrumental version of an aria from “La Traviata,” and so forth. Arthur’s records were almost all 12 inch 78s. When he played them, he would go into something like a trance, wave his arms around like a conductor, and obviously become transported. He had the Beethoven “Violin Concerto,” the Tchaikovsky “First Piano Concerto,” Brahms’ “Fourth Symphony,” “Gaite Parisienne” by Offenbach, “Clair de Lune” by Debussy—generally a whole shelf full of romantic music. When I hit fifth grade, I started violin lessons. I had a paper route, and I finally earned enough money one year to buy a cheap violin so that I could continue even after I left fifth grade.

In the 1950s I found myself taking violin lessons from a private teacher. I wasn’t practising very much, and I did pretty badly. Nevertheless, I was taking lessons, so at least I had some kind of contact with a professional world of music, particularly through this young man who wanted to help me understand more about music, about what was going on with music—because music had begun to affect me more and more profoundly. By now Arthur played the phonograph much less, and I played it much more. I got hold of Arthur’s phonograph, and I would play the Tchaikovsky “Piano Concerto” 78s at top volume, over and over, over and over to everyone else’s point of distraction. The recordings of Heifetz playing violin concertos were simply discouraging to me as a violin student, in spite of the fact that all of those romantic classical music records did make my heart soar; soar on the wings of youthful hormones, a big dose of loneliness and desolation (because we lived miles out in the country), and a profound commitment to the classical romantic idiom. I was very curious how all of this worked: how was music put together in such a way as to achieve the kind of effects that I was experiencing?

God help the young violin student who forever has to play all by himself without the supportive sonorities of another instrument. The thin keening of a solo violin, played without vibrato by a beginner, gives rise to many uncertainties—particularly in the context of a virtual comparison with Heifetz. Why, after all, should I practise, when to tell the truth, it was clear that I would never sound like Heifetz? I was so thirsty for sound to listen to, during those agonized adolescent years; I tuned in the radio to listen to faraway stations like WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia, which was so much more romantic than the local country music station in Baltimore. I wished that we had FM radio like my girlfriend’s family. They had a piano, too. A nice hi-fi set, FM radio, and a piano were middle class luxuries that my family seemed unable to afford.

Arthur seemed unsuited to finding a regular job. He was, after all, an artist—Yale BFA, studied watercolor with Eliot O’Hara, worked in naval camouflage during the War—but landscapes and portraiture were in cultural decline. Almost everything in the way of regular work reeked of compromise. When he got occasional commissions to do portraits, it took lean months for him to complete the work. Mary picked up her career teaching French after us kids were old enough to be left on our own for a while, but I never really had any money while I was in school. Finally one Christmas Aunt Louise sent us kids as a gift a little red plastic phonograph that would play 33 rpm and 45 rpm records. Wow. I sent off coupons and joined records societies just to get the free record that was offered as an inducement. There is a sharp and desperate memory that’s easy for me to recover: I’m lying in bed in the dark with my ear pressed uncomfortably against the speaker, almost silently playing a 33 of “Scheherazade” on the little red phonograph.

Meanwhile, my violin teacher Mr. Knudsen had helped me to begin to understand something about the combination of notes that comprises harmony. Since I didn’t play the violin with vibrato, and refused to do so, bowing two strings together created a stark interaction between the two notes involved. When you play the violin your ear is very close to the instrument. Mr. Knudsen pointed out that many violin players became deaf in their left ear over the course of time; I have by now noticed this myself. In any case, while bowing two strings at the same time, I could hear very clearly a number of combination effects: different tones, beats, harmony and dissonance. These exercises began building into a great library of wonderful sounds, the first truly sonorous and plangent experiences I had ever found in the violin—playing harmonic intervals exactly in tune, and then later also retuning the violin to emphasize the magnificent resonance I found in these sustained intervals.

Miraculously, I was admitted to Harvard with a scholarship. One year I took harmony, hoping to get to the bottom of it. It was painfully difficult for me, because I didn’t play the piano and all. I couldn’t even read bass clef at first. The other students hammered their way through the exercises with fingers that fell into the pattern of the keys with practiced ease, while I sorted my way meticulously from one note to the next, hoping for the best. In the end, I didn’t do very well with this, but it became clear that the practice if not the theory of harmony (and probably both) circled around the piano like a vortex. I attended music events—new music, classical performances, and what we would now call “world music” talks and performances. I learned that the curious intrinsic structures of Indian music spiraled outward from the instrumental practices of the veena, and it seemed clear to me that the piano had played the same role in Western harmonic music.

Back home, my family had somehow outfitted itself with an old upright. What a priceless luxury! When I was home to visit, I could try out chords—even though there was really nobody there with whom I could play duets on the violin, should I have been ready to do such a thing. Everything converged one Christmas when my mother died. My father had died Christmas Eve the year before, which made the tragedy somehow more focused and intense. Parents, loss, memory, Christmas, romantic longings, the piano, and music as a recourse and solace for being left alone somehow in the world. It was 1976, and by this point I had already been improvising my own kind of harmonic music for almost two decades, so I decided to turn to the piano. The piano: the center of Western tradition, the embodiment of traditional discipline and practice, a great blank landscape I had never touched except to drift; the harmonic veil through which we all expected to perceive one another’s inner psychological life.

So I decided to record everything I did, every touch to the keys, and I called it “Music and the Mind of the World.” I was interested in the sounds of practising, of banging on the keys, of trying to hammer through old tunes that I knew, of formal exercises that might occur to me from moment to moment, and of course of the harmonic sonority of the piano itself. In relation to the piano as a physical instrument I had some history, in fact, in addition to my harmony course experience. While I was at Harvard I picked up an idea somewhere about a 19-tone equal tempered octave, and this stimulated me to appropriate an old piano that my friends dragged to my dorm room through the street. The tuning adjustments I made on it were extreme, and when I was done it hardly sounded like a piano at all. I had developed a voracious interest in tuning systems and practises by that time, further encouraged by my discovery of scordatura violin music, written for open tunings. I prized a copy of Alfred H. Howe’s Scientific Piano Tuning and Servicing. After I moved to New York in 1962, I bought a small Romanian cimbalom for $15 from Moses Blank’s decrepit music shop at 190 East 2nd Street. It was amenable to tuning, and this had been my plan until Angus MacLise used it in the (eponymous) film Chumlum, and thereby made the instrument irrevocably his own. At that time, as it happened, I was living next door to a piano factory, now long gone, at the corner of Ludlow and Grand.

Henry Flynt tried to get me to accompany him by playing some very simple blues riffs on the piano, but somehow I couldn’t really do it. The piano is a percussion instrument, and I had never played a percussion instrument before; my sense of rhythm, even on the violin, was limited, and the extended duration drone music that I customarily performed, at that time and since, is putatively the most arhythmic music ever written. It had impressed me greatly when my friend Angus, one day during our rehearsals at La Monte Young’s loft, asked me offhandedly if he could try out my violin. Angus was a great percussionist, but the violin is notoriously difficult, as I well knew, and I handed him the violin with a grain of salt, so to speak. Angus simply took up the bow and immediately began to play vigorously and with abandon; he was exciting to hear, it was excellent, and I understood that a percussionist could play anything. I had had a similar lesson from John Cage about listening: with sounds provided at random, the conditions were set for the listener to do the work of liking the music, whatever it might be. There might even be extraneous sounds, incidental sounds, unexpected techniques, different cultural approaches, selections programmed by someone else—as off the radio for example; in effect, anything at all. For me this fundamentally aesthetic challenge had been received as an entirely practical exercise. For years, following my exposure to Cage, I studiously tackled music and sounds that I didn’t like, modulating my preferences and prejudices willfully in the direction of liking, until even some of the most difficult sounds for me to enjoy became truly heartwarming and aesthetically trenchant.

Jack Smith, whom I met in 1963, represented an opposite philosophy to that of Cage. The pop sounds and dance rhythms he liked struck me as distastefully common, easy, and boring. But the pathway I found to liking them was psychologically smooth; the animating elements of nostalgia, familiarity, common practice, natural body rhythm, and singability somehow jumped directly across the conceptual gap that Cage occupied. So it was, that a decade and a half later, I began to see the piano as a fulcrum between the seductive elements of the Western tradition and the conceptual opportunities that remained for sonic exploration. In my pathetic practise, I could use the piano to reach out in the direction of psychological fulfillment and immediate pleasure, grasping at tunes, tone, melodic lilt, rhythmic seduction, and nostalgic nuance, while simultaneously veiling my presentation behind the screens of technical ineptitude, poor recording quality (which was inevitable, due to circumstances), and a kind of hopelessly nerdy outlook.

All of this is not to say that I didn’t by this time know a good amount about music and sound. In particular, I knew what the piano could do with single notes, repeated chords, the resonance effects of the sustain pedal, and simple note combinations that reflected my harmonic interests. I could make the piano fly, soar across endless space, make you close your eyes and see—by strumming, coursing across the keys, picking out a few surprises, and letting the voice of the piano speak loudly for itself. There are lengthy moments among these recordings that for me are a simple joy to hear. These keep me tethered close to the piece, but the more awkward and unlistenable segments are by far the most interesting. The problematic measure of presence in recorded music has been a constant source of irritation and inquiry ever since sound was first recorded at the end of the 19th century. Listening to early cylinder recordings, for example, we need to invest our full attentiveness if we are to begin to pierce the thick technological screen between us and the performance. With enough focus, something like the presence of the originating events begins to emerge, like the outlines of a garden as the snow melts.

At the end of January 1977 a dilly of a blizzard slammed Buffalo, just as Anne Turyn and I were driving in from New York. I had only recorded part or all of four cassette tapes, three of them within a couple of weeks of Mary’s death. She died Christmas Day 1976, and that afternoon I recorded the first piano tape, on the old upright that finally was a part of our family home in Baldwin, Maryland. I still didn’t have a piano, and I didn’t record again until May, when I was able to play on Anne’s family piano in Newton, Massachusetts. It was only in September, 1977 that I finally got hold of a Weber upright, which I kept at that time in a studio room provided to me by Media Study/Buffalo; by this time I had already recorded more than ten hours on other pianos.

Along the way, there were certain figures that I picked up and carried forward. There was, for example, “On Top of Old Smokey,” a folk tune that had struck me very much as a young person. Also, there appeared a kind of theme that persisted over the course of the coming years, a figure that alternated a chord in E flat with a G minor chord. Just a week before the end of the first year, on December 18, I gave the first public performance of my piano work. My trusting friend, Rhys Chatham, had invited me to participate at The Kitchen in the first New Music America Festival, New Music New York. The fact that I was almost completely unprepared was not an issue for me, nor was it an obstacle that I was completely insecure about what I was going to do. These aspects, I felt, were a central concern of the project, and should be foregrounded rather than veiled. The flip side of this, too, was implicated: the fact that I allowed myself undue confidence and self-assurance, especially in certain moments of the presentation. Everything at the level of the performance activity itself was to be legitimized; but for this to happen, it was essential that there be a range of material incorporated, from the familiar to the arbitrary, from the proficient to the diffident, from the novel to the trite, and from the decisive to the tentative. By so scattering the source material, I wanted to animate a level of confusion or consternation in the presence of which the listeners would be required to either slip off into a trance or to remove themselves to a critical distance at which they would receive this polymodal material as the product of a careful design, a gesture of reassigned musical values: a hypostatization of critical level in the direction of what was soon to be thought of as the “postmodern.”

But music flows through time, and it’s difficult to achieve critical distance in the course of live performance. I was expecting a lot, so I shouldn’t have been surprised when I didn’t get very much in the way of critical approbation. The scant response that my performance solicited was negative. The lack of response that predominated spoke to me even more clearly; I was on my own it seemed. So I began in 1978 full of confidence, but isolated in my practice.

About this site

March, 2017 Cory Arcangel

Tony would use two titles – Music and the Mind of the World and Music and the Mind of the Word – when discussing this composition, and decided to use World for this site. musicandthemindofthe.world is generated from audio found on 222 1/8th inch cassette tapes that he delivered Arcangel Surfware in September of 2016. These cassettes were sent to George Blood LP, and digitized at 32 bit, 96000 Hz. Upon receipt, each file – one for each side of a cassette – was listened to by the Arcangel Surfware team and cross-referenced with Tony’s notes written on each cassette. Tony’s notes contained information on the date the recording was made, and sometimes the location of the recording and the piano used. Some cassettes contained recordings made on multiple dates. On this site, Tony and I decided to break piano sessions on a single day into different parts. A part would be determined if a session spanned two sides of a tape, had clear recording breaks (given the fidelity of the recordings–Tony used different recorders– sometimes this was a judgement call), or had large sections of unrelated dialog (which was to be edited out). Once the session parts were determined via timecode, the audio files were run through a script that split them into individual files. These files were then mastered by Jon Cohrs at Spleenless mastering. Programmed by Familiar Design Studo, the site pulls from the spreadsheet complied by Arcangel Surfware. The website is a Jekyll site, hosted on Github pages with all of the .mp3 files being served off of Amazon S3. The sessions are also mirrored on Youtube. We hope you enjoy.

Change log

12-18-2021: Corrected typo, “222 8mm inch cassette tapes” to “222 1/8th inch cassette tapes”. Commented out Twitter bot (while I try to get it up again)
03-07-2017: Beta site up.
04-03-2017: Locations corrected matmotw_477-485. Location added matmotw_619. Youtube vids listed. Launch!
09-27-2017: Twitter bot launched.

Contact

info AT arcangelsurfware DOT biz

CREDITS

Music and the Mind of the World by Tony Conrad has been published by Arcangel Surfware.

Editing, copy-editing & transcription

Cory Arcangel, Gil Gentile, Elliot Kaufman, Amanda Schmidt

Archival programming & data manipulation

Henry Van Dusen

Archival audio services

George Blood, L.P.

Mastering

Jon Cohrs at Spleenless Mastering

Web programming & design

Familiar Studio

Special thanks for their support

Greene Naftali Gallery and Galerie Buchholz