Lou Harrison
Download Lou Harrison full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Lou Harrison ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Lou Harrison
Author | : Bill Alves,Brett Campbell |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780253026439 |
Download Lou Harrison Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A biography on the legendary gay American composer of contemporary classical music. American composer Lou Harrison (1917–2003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries and close colleagues: composers John Cage, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leonard Bernstein; Living Theater founder, Judith Malina; and choreographer, Merce Cunningham. Today, musicians from Bang on a Can to Björk are indebted to the cultural hybrids Harrison pioneered half a century ago. His explorations of new tonalities at a time when the rest of the avant-garde considered such interests heretical set the stage for minimalism and musical post-modernism. His propulsive rhythms and ground-breaking use of percussion have inspired choreographers from Merce Cunningham to Mark Morris, and he is considered the godfather of the so-called “world music” phenomenon that has invigorated Western music with global sounds over the past two decades. In this biography, authors Bill Alves and Brett Campbell trace Harrison’s life and career from the diverse streets of San Francisco, where he studied with music experimentalist Henry Cowell and Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, and where he discovered his love for all things non-traditional (Beat poetry, parties, and men); to the competitive performance industry in New York, where he subsequently launched his career as a composer, conducted Charles Ives’s Third Symphony at Carnegie Hall (winning the elder composer a Pulitzer Prize), and experienced a devastating mental breakdown; to the experimental arts institution of Black Mountain College where he was involved in the first “happenings” with Cage, Cunningham, and others; and finally, back to California, where he would become a strong voice in human rights and environmental campaigns and compose some of the most eclectic pieces of his career. “Lou Harrison’s avuncular personality and tuneful music coaxed affectionate regard from all who knew him, and that affection is evident on every page of Alves and Campbell’s new biography. Eminently readable, it puts Harrison at the center of American music: he knew everyone important and was in touch with everybody, from mentors like Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives and Harry Partch and Virgil Thomson to peers like John Cage to students like Janice Giteck and Paul Dresher. He was larger than life in person, and now he is larger than life in history as well.” —Kyle Gann, author of Charles Ives’s Concord: Essays After a Sonata
Lou Harrison
Author | : Leta E. Miller,Fredric Lieberman |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252031205 |
Download Lou Harrison Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Music's inclusivity - its potential to unite cultures, disciplines, and individuals - defined the life and career of Lou Harrison. This book talks about Harrison's music through an exploration of his stance on pacifism, gay rights, ecology, and respect for minorities - all of which directly impacted his musical works.
Lou Harrison
Author | : Bill Alves,Brett Campbell |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0253026156 |
Download Lou Harrison Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
American composer Lou Harrison (1917–2003) is perhaps best known for challenging the traditional musical establishment along with his contemporaries and close colleagues: composers John Cage, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and Leonard Bernstein; Living Theater founder, Judith Malina; and choreographer, Merce Cunningham. Today, musicians from Bang on a Can to Björk are indebted to the cultural hybrids Harrison pioneered half a century ago. His explorations of new tonalities at a time when the rest of the avant garde considered such interests heretical set the stage for minimalism and musical post-modernism. His propulsive rhythms and ground-breaking use of percussion have inspired choreographers from Merce Cunningham to Mark Morris, and he is considered the godfather of the so-called "world music" phenomenon that has invigorated Western music with global sounds over the past two decades. In this biography, authors Bill Alves and Brett Campbell trace Harrison's life and career from the diverse streets of San Francisco, where he studied with music experimentalist Henry Cowell and Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, and where he discovered his love for all things non-traditional (Beat poetry, parties, and men); to the competitive performance industry in New York, where he subsequently launched his career as a composer, conducted Charles Ives's Third Symphony at Carnegie Hall (winning the elder composer a Pulitzer Prize), and experienced a devastating mental breakdown; to the experimental arts institution of Black Mountain College where he was involved in the first "happenings" with Cage, Cunningham, and others; and finally, back to California, where he would become a strong voice in human rights and environmental campaigns and compose some of the most eclectic pieces of his career.
Composing a World
Author | : Leta E. Miller,Fredric Lieberman |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0252071883 |
Download Composing a World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Since its original publication, Composing a World by Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman has become the definitive work on the prolific California composer Lou Harrison, often cited as one of America's most original and influential figures. Composing a World presents a compelling and deeply human portrait of an exceptionally beloved pioneer in American music.This paperback edition is an updated version of the highly acclaimed Lou Harrison: Composing a World. The product of extensive research, as well as seventy-five interviews with the composer and those associated with him over half a century, this new edition features an updated works catalog reflecting compositions completed after 1997, adds a brief description of the circumstances of Harrison's death, and corrects a few minor errors. It also includes an annotated works-list detailing more than 300 compositions and a CD featuring over 74 minutes of illustrative Harrison compositions, including several unique and previously unrecorded works.Extending beyond simple biography, Composing a World includes chapters on music and dance, intonation and tuning, instrument building, music criticism, political activism, homosexuality, and Harrison's Asian influences, among other topics. This indispensable study of Harrison's life and works--currently out of print--will be welcomed back by performing artists, students, and scholars of American music."
Lou Harrison
Author | : Leta E. Miller,Fredric Lieberman |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252091926 |
Download Lou Harrison Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Music's inclusivity--its potential to unite cultures, disciplines, and individuals--defined the life and career of Lou Harrison (1917-2003). Beyond studying with leading composers of the avant-garde such as Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg, conducting Charles Ives's Pulitzer Prize-winning Third Symphony, and staging high-profile percussion concerts with John Cage, Harrison has achieved fame for his distinctive blending of cultures--from the Chinese opera, Indonesian gamelan, and the music of Native Americans to modernist dissonant counterpoint. Miller and Lieberman also pull readers into Harrison's rich world of cross-fertilization through an exploration of his outspoken stance on pacifism, gay rights, ecology, and respect for minorities--all of which directly impacted his musical works. Though Harrison was sometimes accused by contemporaries of "cultural appropriation," Miller and Lieberman's brisk study makes it clear why he is now lauded as an imaginative pioneer for his integration of Asian and Western musics, as well as for his work in the development of the percussion ensemble, his use of found and invented instruments, and his explorations of alternative tuning systems. Harrison's compositions are examined in detail through reference to an accompanying CD of representative recordings.
A Lou Harrison Reader
Author | : Peter Garland |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : UOM:39015056667663 |
Download A Lou Harrison Reader Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Articles, interviews and letters by and about Lou Harrison.
The Percussion Ensemble Music of Lou Harrison 1939 1942
Author | : Don Russell Baker |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Percussion ensembles |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013606705 |
Download The Percussion Ensemble Music of Lou Harrison 1939 1942 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
La Koro Sutro by Lou Harrison
Author | : Patrick Grant Gardner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Gamelan |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106012234958 |
Download La Koro Sutro by Lou Harrison Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle