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Barrie thanks -yes that was a great place to perform Guggenheim ??(my memory lapses!!!) also wasn't Tallis Spem in alium a spacial work I have not heard it in the round- But when I was young! I used to go to 'Proms' at the Albert Hall London some of those concerts used the space-perhaps we should use it more in poetry performance (perhaps some do? )it would fun to try Cheers Patrick bravely awaiting an invasion of grandchildren! -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barry Alpert Sent: 18 March 2011 14:37 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Snap That Maverick Composer Patrick, As a former architect, you might be intrigued by Henry Brant's blueprint for the positioning of the 3 orchestras performing and his aesthetic statements which appear on the screen while you listen to "Trinity of Spheres". I wish more youtube videos provided such pertinent material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcCEbzZFzdk&feature=related Barry On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:03:12 -0000, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Thanks Wow just heard part of 'Orbits' like a storm thrashing - gosh those flashlight are a bit bof a pain > >-----Original Message----- >From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barry Alpert >Sent: 17 March 2011 16:38 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Snap That Maverick Composer > >I've heard of Brant for years, Hal, but have never had a chance to witness a concert of his works. Have been listening to his compositions via youtube this morning and would like to experience the spatial positioning in person. I wrote about Lou Harrison on this occasion because the "confluence" articulated by the Post-Classical Ensemble was available to me without major difficulty or expense, and I had been introduced to his music many years ago by two young composers who had studied with LH, Peter Garland and Paul Dresher. > >Thanks, Doug & Hal, for assuring me that what I wrote was presentable. I wonder when I revise as much as I did on this occasion. > >Barry > > >On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:26:09 -0600, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>I've never found Harrison's music all that interesting, actually. >>Too much languorous orientalia for my liking. >>Try Henry Brant. >> >Hal >> >> >On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:17:52 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>Despite the difficulties, well caught, Barry. And the explanation, as Hal says: fascinating. >> >>I have Seven Pastorales out from the library right now, & have the Elegiac Symphony, but clearly need to track down the Piano Concerto. >> >>Doug >> >> >>On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:21:46 -0600, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>Fascinating, Barry. Thanks. >> >>Hal >> >> >>On 2011-03-16, at 7:48 AM, Barry Alpert 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