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By Bill Alves,Brett Campbell,Mark Morris

ISBN-10: 0253025613

ISBN-13: 9780253025616

ISBN-10: 0253026156

ISBN-13: 9780253026156

American composer Lou Harrison (1917–2003) could be top recognized for not easy the conventional musical institution with his contemporaries and shut colleagues: composers John Cage, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leonard Bernstein; residing Theater founder, Judith Malina; and choreographer, Merce Cunningham. at the present time, musicians from Bang on a Can to Björk are indebted to the cultural hybrids Harrison pioneered part a century in the past. His explorations of recent tonalities at a time whilst the remainder of the avant garde thought of such pursuits heretical set the level for minimalism and musical post-modernism. His propulsive rhythms and ground-breaking use of percussion have encouraged choreographers from Merce Cunningham to Mark Morris, and he's thought of the godfather of the so-called "world track" phenomenon that has invigorated Western tune with worldwide sounds during the last decades.

In this biography, authors invoice Alves and Brett Campbell hint Harrison's existence and profession from the varied streets of San Francisco, the place he studied with track experimentalist Henry Cowell and Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, and the place he chanced on his love for all issues non-traditional (Beat poetry, events, and men); to the aggressive functionality in manhattan, the place he to that end introduced his occupation as a composer, performed Charles Ives's 3rd Symphony at Carnegie corridor (winning the elder composer a Pulitzer Prize), and skilled a devastating psychological breakdown; to the experimental arts establishment of Black Mountain collage the place he was once eager about the 1st "happenings" with Cage, Cunningham, and others; and at last, again to California, the place he might turn into a powerful voice in human rights and environmental campaigns and compose one of the most eclectic items of his career.

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