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In The First Person: Lou Harrison
lou harrison in Conversation with John Luther Adams (4/99) John Luther Adams sitsdown, in Alaska, to visit by telephone with lou harrison, in California.
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Extractions: Lou Harrison in Conversation with John Luther Adams (4/99) John Luther Adams sits down, in Alaska, to visit by telephone with Lou Harrison, in California. 1. Overture JLA: In a mesostic written in your honor, John Cage compared your music to a river opening into its delta. He wrote: "Listening to it, we become ocean." I think John was right, your music is absolutely extraordinary for its breadth, its diversity, its sheer quantity, and its constantly exquisite quality. You're an american master with a remarkable body of work. Last year, your 80th birthday was celebrated with performances all over the world. Some major new pieces, including the Pi'pa Concerto, were premiered. Moving into your ninth decade, you're still going strong! LH: Yes, and we just had two more performances of the concerto. One in Seattle, and one with the California Symphony , in the Bay region. There were 2 different virtuosi, and they both went very well. You know I'm a slowpoke I have a difficult time with things like bowing, metronome marks, and all sorts of decisions. Fortunately, most musicians are kind to me and help, which is a good thing. JLA: Well, the collaborative relationship with performers is part of the fun, isn't it?
In The First Person: Lou Harrison
lou harrison Biography lou harrison's life has been a series of archeologicaldigs. lou harrison is not making plastic roses for funeral parlors.
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Extractions: Lou Harrison Biography Lou Harrison 's life has been a series of archeological digs. Whenever and wherever he encountered a site of interest on the artistic landscape, he paused for an exploration. The result is more than the simple acquisition of knowledge, however, for Harrison has always found ways of combining his disparate investigations into new untried syntheses. "There is nothing labored about all this," noted Virgil Thomson in 1987. "Lou Harrison is not making plastic roses for funeral parlors. He is simply speaking in many personae and many languages. The message itself is pure Harrison. And that message is of joy, dazzling and serene, and even at its most intensely serious, not without laughter." Harrison's mentor, Henry Cowell, cautioned us to respect hybrids. Harrison would go further, urging us to celebrate them because there really is nothing else. Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon in 1917, but spent most of his formative years in northern California, where his family moved when he was nine. (The Harrisons moved nearly every year- and sometimes even more frequently-from one town to another: Woodland, Sacramento, Stockton, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Gatos, Redwood City, Belmont, and Burlingame.) Indeed Harrison has been cited as the quintessential West-coast composer, reflecting in his work the region's em-brace of diverse opinions, its fascination with Asia and Latin America, and its devotion to open space. Harrison's musical style was shaped by the San Francisco of the 1930s. There he studied composition with Henry Cowell; accompanied such dancer/choreographers as Carol Beals, Bonnie Bird, Tina Flade, and Lester Horton; and staged high profile percussion concerts with John Cage. At the Golden Gate Exposition on Treasure Island in 1939 he first heard a live Indonesian gamelan orchestra (an ensemble composed primarily of percussion, including metallophones with various types of resonators, and gongs of various sizes, shapes, and orientations). In the city itself he frequented the Chinese opera, which welcomed audiences for 25 cents a show. He and Cage delighted in rummaging through the city's automobile junkyards and import stores for anything that would ping, bong, or twang, and spent hours testing the pitch and resonance of flower pots in the local nurseries.
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lou harrison Includes biography and discography, from New Albion. lou harrison- Includes a short biography and work list, from Frog Peak Music.
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Cmposr Bio Harrison, Lou
OREGON COMPOSERS. lou harrison (1917 ). harrison, L., A lou harrison Reader. Soundings,1987. Miller, L.; Lieberman, F., Composing a World. Oxford, 1988.
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Extractions: Distinguished American composer, writer, educator and gamelan musician. Born in Portland, Oregon, May 14, 1917, he studied with Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg. He has held appointments at the University of Hawaii, San Jose State University, Mills College, and (through a Fulbright scholarship) at four universities in New Zealand. Harrison has had a longtime interest in tuning systems, and has been drawn to the sonorities and textures of Asian music, particularly the gamelan music of Indonesia. Many of his works combine Western instruments with the instruments of the Balinese gamelan. Holdings at the University of Oregon CIRCULATION POLICY Holdings in Orbis catalog ORBIS BORROWING Web sites of interest Selected bibliography Harrison, L., A Lou Harrison Reader. Soundings, 1987.
Lou Harrison
Photo © David Harsany. lou harrison lived his first nine years inPortland, Oregon, where he was born in May 14, 1917. Residences
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Extractions: Lou Harrison lived his first nine years in Portland, Oregon, where he was born in May 14, 1917. Residences since then include Central California, Los Angeles, New York City (ten years), North Carolina, the San Francisco Bay region, Oaxaca, New Zealand, and the Monterey Bay region where he lives now. His studies were with Howard Cooper, Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and Virgil Thomson. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships. Mr. Harrison has established himself as one of the most original and important American composers of the 20th century. As Mr. Harrison likes to point out, American composers must often do other things to support themselves. Among these he has been a record salesman, an animal nurse, a journalist, a florist, a forestry firefighter, and dance accompanist. He is a poet, painter, calligrapher, and type face designer in addition to being a composer. He has helped to introduce the Indonesian gamelan to the United States and, with William Colvig, has constructed two large gamelans now in use at San Jose State University and Mills College. Ned Rorem has said, "Lou Harrison's compositions demonstrate a variety of means and techniques. In general he is a melodist. Rhythm has a significant place in his work, too. Harmony is unimportant, although tonality is. He is one of the first American composers to successfully create a workable marriage between Eastern and Western forms."
Lou Harrison
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Poetry Center - HARRISON, LOU - 4/22/92
Reader harrison, lou. Accession Number 1019. Date 4/22/92. Length 20 MIN.Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity white. Language English.
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Extractions: Content: "Gending," "To Aphrodite," "Chorus to Hades," "Chorus to Persephone," "Chorus About Tiresias," "A Joyous Procession," "Solemn Procession," "Hymn to Persephone," "Thais' Light," "Panceon," "Saphic Syllables In Honor Of Sinan's Tomb," "Inscription To Robert Gordon With A Copy Of Brandons On Throne Of Gold," "Scenes From Cavafy," "In a Tavern," "An Acrostic Hymn," "Fours On Kenneth Rexroth Reading," "Inscription to Mary and Jack Hill," "Two Poems for William Haintz," "Horatian Ode On Bravo Twenty," "A Tanka Ode," "Lines of Nine on A Male Matter."
Poetry Center - Harrison, Lou - 04/22/92
Reader harrison, lou. Accession Number 1121. Date 04/22/92. Length 20 minutes.Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity white. Language English.
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Extractions: Content: "Gending," "To Aphrodite," "Chorus to Hades," "Chorus to Persephone," "Chorus About Tiresias," "A Joyous Procession," "Solemn Procession," "Hymn to Persephone," "Thais' Light," "Panceon," "Saphic Syllables In Honor Of Sinan's Tomb," "Inscription To Robert Gordon With A Copy Of Brandons On Throne Of Gold," "Scenes From Cavafy," "In a Tavern," "An Acrostic Hymn," "Fours On Kenneth Rexroth Reading," "Inscription to Mary and Jack Hill," "Two Poems for William Haintz," "Horatian Ode On Bravo Twenty," "A Tanka Ode," "Lines of Nine on A Male Matter." Catacalos, Rosemary (Intro.) Foley, Jack and Foley, Adele (Co-readers)
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NEW ALBION. Artist harrison, lou, Title Rhymes With Silver. Artist harrison.lou, Title Solo Keyboards. Format CD, Catalog Number CDHARRISOLO.
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Extractions: HARRISON, LOU Prices listed do not include shipping/handling. Click here for our freight chart. All prices in U.S. dollars. To order, click the white checkbox[es] to the left of the "Artist" field, then scroll to the bottom of the page and click the box marked "add checked item". NEW ALBION Artist: HARRISON, LOU Title: Rhymes With Silver Format: CD Catalog Date: ***A set of short pieces commissioned by the Mark Morris Dance Troup from composer and John Cage contemporary LOU HARRISON. A blend of Indonesian-inspired cadences, 20th Century dance forms, and avant garde lyrical strains performed by JOAN JEANRENAUD on solo cello (her first recording since leaving the KRONOS QUARTET), and by the ABEL-STEINBERG-WINANT TRIO (violin, piano, percussion) with BENJAMIN SIMON on viola. Artist: HARRISON. LOU Title: Solo Keyboards Format: CD Catalog
Peermusic Classical - Lou Harrison, Essay
lou harrison. by. Leta E. Miller University of California, Santa Cruz.lou harrison's life has been a series of archeological digs.
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Extractions: Lou Harrison by Leta E. Miller- University of California, Santa Cruz Lou Harrison's life has been a series of archeological digs. Whenever and wherever he encountered a site of interest on the artistic landscape, he paused for an exploration. The result is more than the simple acquisition of knowledge, however, for Harrison has always found ways of combining his disparate investigations into new untried syntheses. "There is nothing labored about all this," noted Virgil Thomson in 1987. "Lou Harrison is not making plastic roses for funeral parlors. He is simply speaking in many personae and many languages. The message itself is pure Harrison. And that message is of joy, dazzling and serene, and even at its most intensely serious, not without laughter." Harrison's mentor, Henry Cowell, cautioned us to respect hybrids. Harrison would go further, urging us to celebrate them because there really is nothing else. Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon in 1917, but spent most of his formative years in northern California, where his family moved when he was nine. (The Harrisons moved nearly every year- and sometimes even more frequently-from one town to another: Woodland, Sacramento, Stockton, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Gatos, Redwood City, Belmont, and Burlingame.) Indeed Harrison has been cited as the quintessential West-coast composer, reflecting in his work the region's em-brace of diverse opinions, its fascination with Asia and Latin America, and its devotion to open space.
Lou Harrison Piano Concerto
lou harrison Piano Concerto. Joanna MacGregor For fifty years, lou harrison hasbeen one of the most innovative and imaginative of American composers.
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Extractions: Sydney Symphony Orchestra For fifty years, Lou Harrison has been one of the most innovative and imaginative of American composers. Before the concept of 'multiculturalism' permeated popular culture, Harrison was successfully integrating Western and Asian musical forms, writing lyrical works influenced by Beijing Opera, Gregorian chant and Indonesian Gamelan Music. Born in Portland, Oregon on 14 May 1917, Lou Harrison grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the same time as studying with Henry Cowell, Virgil Thomson and Arnold Schoenberg, his early partnership with John Cage produced a wealth of inventive percussion music, fashioning instruments out of old brake drums and oxygen tanks. With William Colvig he has constructed two large Gamelans, and over the decades he has maintained an interest in dance, theatre and the craft of instrument building. His oeuvre includes solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works - although Lou also likes to point out that apart from being a composer, he has been a painter, a calligrapher, an animal nurse, a dance accompanist, a forestry firefighter and a poet. Meeting Lou Harrison for the first time in the summer of 1996, I was struck by his warmth and good humour, as well as his generosity and tolerance, which is not surprising, I suppose, given his life-long commitment to Buddhism. From the moment I first worked on this piece with Lou at Dartington Summer School I became entranced. It's a work which somehow obeys all the rules of a piano concerto while simultaneously defying expectation; a piece which manages to encompass a Western art form within a much bigger canvas.
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harrison, lou periodical articles Andrews, P. and A. Rodd. Brin, David M. louharrison Sound of East and West, Strings, 3 March 1990, 55. Brint, Steven.
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Extractions: <" American Record, 43 November 1979, 10-11. Wallace, K.D. "(Rapunzel) Cabrillo Report," Musical America, 16 November 1966, 24-5. Woodard, Josef. "Lou Harrison: His Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese Gamelan," Option, 41 November 1991, 56. Yates, P. "Lou Harrison (Includes List of Works)," American Composers Alliance Bulletin, 9 1960, 2-7.
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harrison, lou dissertations and theses Baker, Don R. The Percussion EnsembleMusic of lou harrison, Urbana- Chamaign, University of Illinois 1985.
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Extractions: Harrison, Lou - dissertations and theses Baker, Don R. "The Percussion Ensemble Music of Lou Harrison," Urbana- Chamaign, University of Illinois: 1985. Brunner, David L. "The Choral Music of Lou Harrison," Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois: 1989. Carey, David L. "Double Music: A Historic-Analytic Study," San Diego, University of California: 1978. Celso, Lynnette V. "A Study and Catalogue of Lou Harrison's Utilization of Keyboard Instruments in his Solo and Ensemble Works," San Jose, San Jose State University: 1979. Dombek, Stephen. "Pitch Organization in Selected Works of Lou Harrison," Indiana, Indiana University: 1982. Gardner, G. "La Koro Sutro by Lou Harrison: Historical Perspective, Analysis and Performance," Dissertation Abstracts Internatinal Consideratins, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 42 1982, 2923A. Gardner, Patrick G. "La Koro Sutro by Lou Harrison: Historical Perspective, Analysis and Performance Considerations," Austin, Tx., University of Texas at Austin: 1981. Ratbun, Virgina M. "Lou Harrison and his Music," San Jose, San Jose State University: 1976. Rutman, N.C. "The Solo Piano Works of Lou Harrison," Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 44 November 1983, 1239A. Rutman, Neil C. "The Solo Piano Works of Lou Harrison," Boston, Peabody Conservatory of Music; 1982. 4/93
American Music: Lou Harrison And The American Gamelan.
lou harrison and the American Gamelan. Author/s Leta E. Miller IssueSummer, 1999. Since the inception of the first Indonesian
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Extractions: Find Articles Home View By Subject View By Name Search Tips ... Help Search all magazines this magazine Arts/Entertain. Automotive Business/Fin. Comp./Tech. Health/Fitness Home/Family News/Society Reference/Ed. Sports for Search Tips : Use quotes to find a specific phrase, e.g. "Abe Lincoln" or "New York". Lou Harrison and the American Gamelan. Author/s: Leta E. Miller, Fredric Lieberman Issue: Summer, 1999 Since the inception of the first Indonesian music performance program in the United States in the 1950s, the number of gamelan in America has mushroomed. A gamelanthe word translates roughly as "orchestra"is an ensemble comprising primarily pitched percussion. The main instruments of the ensemble are keyed metallophones with trough or tubular resonators, and knobbed gongs, some of which are suspended and some of which are laid horizontally on rope supports. The suspended gongs function in traditional compositions as colotomic markers delineating major structural points in the musical composition; the horizontal gongs traditionally serve a melodic function.(1) At the same time, American composersmany, though by no means all, with roots in the West Coasthave begun to create a new repertory of works designed specifically for the gamelan. During the past two decades, composers throughout the United States and Canada have contributed to a growing repertory of works that call for the Indonesian ensemble alone or in consort with Western instrumental resources.(5)
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Links lou harrison (San Jose State University) Includes biography,discography, list of compositions, and links to related sites.
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