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Lou Harrison.(Book review)
Lou Harrison. By Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman. (American Composers.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. [viii, 148 p. ISBN 0-252-03120-2. $40.] Illustrations, suggested listening, index, compact disc.
Lou Harrison is the second book by Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman detailing the life and work of this West Coast experimental composer and independent, the first being Lou Harrison: Composing a World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, hereafter Composing a World). After Harrison's death in 2003 and that of his partner William Colvig before him, Miller and Lieberman expanded and updated Composing a World as Composing a World: Lou ...
- In Honor of the Divine Lou Harrison. (Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, New...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Ulrich, Allan April 29, 1997 700+ words
...Now, as dance limps uncertainly toward the millennium, Lou Harrison and Mark Morris look like the latest team to fuse sound and...Grand Duo" (1993), will make up In Honor of the Divine Lou Harrison, one of the Mark Morris Dance Group's two programs at...
- Lou Harrison.(Brief Article)(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes NICHOLLS, DAVID March 1, 2000 700+ words
...Piano); Varied Trio; Grand Duo. Lou Harrison. Triphony [for] Keyboard Solo. New York: C. F. Peters, c1997. [Score...Miller's and Fredric Lieberman's Lou Harrison: Composing a World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998...
- Humanist profile.(Lou Harrison)
- Magazine article from: The Humanist May 1, 2003 700+ words
...Arts Award acceptance speech Lou Harrison 1997 Humanist Arts Awardee Lou Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon...A year later he moved to New York City, where the crowds and...Humanist Arts Award in 1997. Lou Harrison died at the age of eighty...
- It had to be Lou: at 84, Lou Harrison remains one of the great American...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Serinus, Jason March 19, 2002 700+ words
...fun writing," says Lou Harrison, the current dean of...and 2000. In the book Lou Harrison: Composing a World...Harrison migrated to New York City in 1943. There...composer recommends Lou Harrison: A Portrait (Argo...
- Transitions.(obits: conductor John Lanchbery, composer Lou Harrison)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine July 1, 2003 700+ words
...and The Snow Maiden.--Clive Barnes LOU HARRISON Distinguished American composer Lou Harrison, who wrote prolifically for stage and concert...lasting friendship with John Cage, moved to New York in 1943, wrote music criticism, composed...
- Lou Harrison: A Portrait. (Barry Jekowsky, California Symphony Orchestra)
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Ulrich, Allan December 23, 1997 700+ words
Lou Harrison, the country's senior gay composer, could not have ordered up a more...Jean Erdman in 1949 while Harrison was still part of the avant-garde New York scene. Harrison remains living proof that a composer can be true to an...
- COMPOSER LOU HARRISON BRINGS A DIVERSE BACKGOUND TO HIS MUSIC
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff October 16, 1988 700+ words
Lou Harrison has lived one of America's most adventurous lives in music, and, at...parallels the arguments between "uptown" and "downtown" composers in New York, between "establishment" figures and "counterculture" ones. Harrison...
- ABEL-STEINBERG-WINANT TRIO LOU HARRISON: LA KORO SUTRO; VARIED TRIO; SUITE FOR...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff October 6, 1988 700+ words
Ursula Oppens will play Lou Harrison's piano concerto at the Boston Symphony this season, but...and particularly Asian music; it all comes out sounding like Lou Harrison, and American. "La Koro Sutro" is a work for chorus and...