Fascinating, Barry. Thanks.
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> TREAT LOU HARRISON
>
>
> Built myself a paper world.
> Exquisite corpses with Cage & Cunningham.
> Read Harry Partch’s book (gift of Virgil Thomson).
>
> Contact made more intimately within sound sources.
> Made love with drones in serial music.
> Said Cage, “Math of the straight and narrow path”.
>
> Building a cathedral and shipping it to outer space.
> Kinetically filled.
> Please enter. No dog inside.
>
> Large and rambunctious expansion--
> mountains here and hear,
> “See what you can make of . . .” [Navaho chants instead]:
>
> Here holiness with innumerable crystalline cells /
> airplant Spanish moss asway . . .
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 3-16-11 (9:46 AM)
>
> I initially approached the major "American Maverick" composer Lou Harrison
> by snapping a sequence of 10 Kodak instant photos of him, John Cage, and
> their patron Betty Freeman relaxing on the grounds of a music festival.
> Thirty four years passed before I was lucky enough to be within
> geographical range of the tripartite SUBLIME CONFLUENCE: THE MUSIC OF LOU
> HARRISON.
>
> http://post-classicalensemble.org/lou-harrison/
>
> After witnessing the useful documentary film, I decided to await additional
> language which might surface during the two subsequent programs. Overall, a
> difficult and elongated writing process. I expect a more fluid experience
> when I work with an audio interview which I’ve just now discovered.
>
> Let me recommend a very strong work by Lou Harrison, his Piano Concerto
> (1985) in a version featuring Keith Jarrett, for whom it was originally
> composed on commission:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d85BW_ZUs0
>
>
>
