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
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>From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barry Alpert
>Sent: 17 March 2011 16:38
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>Subject: Re: Snap That Maverick Composer
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>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.
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>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.
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>Barry
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>On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:26:09 -0600, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>I've never found Harrison's music all that interesting, actually.
>>Too much languorous orientalia for my liking.
>>Try Henry Brant.
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>Hal
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>On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:17:52 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Despite the difficulties, well caught, Barry. And the explanation, as Hal says: fascinating.
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>>I have Seven Pastorales out from the library right now, & have the Elegiac Symphony, but clearly need to track down the Piano Concerto.
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>>Doug
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>>On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:21:46 -0600, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Fascinating, Barry. Thanks.
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>>Hal
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>>On 2011-03-16, at 7:48 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
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>TREAT LOU HARRISON
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>Built myself a paper world.
>Exquisite corpses with Cage & Cunningham.
>Read Harry Partch's book (gift of Virgil Thomson).
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>Contact made more intimately within sound sources.
>Made love with drones in serial music.
>Said Cage, "Math of the straight and narrow path".
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>Building a cathedral and shipping it to outer space.
>Kinetically filled.
>Please enter. No dog inside.
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>Large and rambunctious expansion--
>mountains here and hear,
>"See what you can make of . . . " [Navaho chants instead]:
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>Here holiness with innumerable crystalline cells /
>airplant Spanish moss asway . . .
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>Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 3-16-11 (9:46 AM)
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>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.
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>http://post-classicalensemble.org/lou-harrison/
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>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.
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>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:
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d85BW_ZUs0
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