![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Henry Cowell Musical Autobiography - Henry Cowell
Henry Cowell talks about his life and plays examples of his music from his entire career as a composer—a fascinating document. He mentions the diversity interests from his childhood, giving up violin at age 8, hearing Irish tunes hummed by his father, early American Ozark mountain tunes sung by his mother. Living in San Francisco, he was exposed to international influences, playing and humming along with his Japanese, Chinese & Tahitian playmates.
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| Other Minds Presents: Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, Concert One - Other Minds
On November 12, 2009, at the Valley Presbyterian Church in Portola Valley, CA, Other Minds presented the first of two concerts dedicated to the music of Henry Cowell. Born in nearby Menlo Park in 1897, Cowell began his musical career as a concert pianist, and is perhaps best known for pioneering such “ultramodern” performance techniques as “tone clusters,” in which the arms are used to play a number of notes simultaneously, and the direct manipulation of the strings of the piano, in a ma...
Keywords: Other Minds; Henry Cowell; Music; New Music
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| FMFFP Podcast Episode 2
Episode 2 of Free Music for Free People, chronicling the evolution of sound. Check us out at feeds.feedburner.com/FMFFP.
Keywords: noise; noise music; futurism; modernism; theosophy; henry cowell; percussion
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| Other Minds Presents: Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music, Concert Two - Other Minds
On November 13, 2009, at the Presidio Chapel in San Francisco, CA, Other Minds presented the second of two concerts dedicated to the music of Henry Cowell. Born in Menlo Park in 1897, Cowell began his musical career as a concert pianist, and is perhaps best known for pioneering such “ultramodern” performance techniques as “tone clusters,” in which the arms are used to play a number of notes simultaneously, and the direct manipulation of the strings of the piano, in a manner that presaged...
Keywords: Other Minds; Henry Cowell; Music; Lecture; Panel Discussion; New Music
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