![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Lou Harrison: The Tuning of the Babylonian Harp
Harrison discusses the recent translation of an ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablet, in which the musical scale used by the Babylonian’s is described. This discovery has pushed back the origin of musical theory by at least 1,500 years. Harrison accompanies his talk with auditory illustrations of ancient scales and other plectrum pleasantries. The musical knowledge developed by the ancient Babylonians was passed on and refined by Pythagorus and Ptolemy and eventually influenced the Western musica...
Keywords: Interview; Microtonal Music; Lou Harrison
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| Young Caesar: A Puppet Opera by Lou Harrison
On December 25, 1974, as a Christmas special, the Fruit Punch Collective presented a recording of the 1971 world premiere performance of Lou Harrison’s gay-oriented opera, “Young Caesar”. The story of the opera explores the meeting and purported subsequent love affair between the young Julius Caesar and King Nicomedes IV of Bithynia. In addition to desiring to write an opera with a homosexual theme Harrison was also attracted to the story about Caesar and Nicomedes because it represented t...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Opera; New Music; Lou Harrison
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| Imaginary Landscape: Lou Harrison - 40 Years of Music (A 60th Birthday Tribute)
On May 14, 1977 Lou Harrison celebrated his 60th birthday. Composers, musicians, music lovers, and friends paid tribute at St. John’s Church in Berkeley CA. The concert was produced by Paul Dresher, Peter Garland and Rae Imamura. The performers included the Repercussion Unit from the Cal Institute of the Arts, The East Bay New Music Ensemble directed by Robert Hughes, and the Berkeley Gamelan. Carl Stone and Leni Isaacs from KPFK play selections of Lou Harrison’s work...
Keywords: Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical; Lou Harrison
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| Lou Harrison: Incidental Music to Corneille's Cinna performed at Other Minds 8, 2002 - Lou Harrison
An 85th Birthday Celebration for Lou Harrison at Other Minds Music Festival 8, 2002 at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California. Lou Harrison: Incidental Music to Corneille's Cinna (1955-56) Medium fast Slow Medium slow Grand Linda Burman-Hall, tack piano Support for Linda Burman-Hall's appearance provided by New Albion Records.
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical; Other Minds Festival; Lou Harrison
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| Lou Harrison: Serenade for Frank Wigglesworth; Music for Solo Guitar performed by David Tanenbaum at Other Minds 8, 2002 - Lou Harrison
Music for Solo Guitar by Lou Harrison performed by David Tanenbaum on classical guitar at the Other Minds Music Festival 8 in San Francisco California. Serenade is dated 12 February 1952 and was originally entitled in Esperanto "Serenado por Guitaro." It was written as part of a letter to a composer friend who was studying guitar at the time. Lou Harrison says, "This Serenade' for guitar was written for Frank Wigglesworth as part of a private letter to him...
Source: Other Minds
Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Music; Lou Harrison; David Tanenbaum; Other Minds Festival
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| Percussion Music: From Lou Harrison’s collection of 78 rpm acetate records
On this installment of Ode to Gravity, Charles Amirkhanian unearths rare gems from Lou Harrison’s personal record collection. Amirkhanian focuses on percussion music from the late 1930s and early 1940s, broadcasting selections by American composers Harrison, Henry Cowell, Johanna Beyer and William Russell. Many of these recordings were made live at one of John Cage’s famous percussion concerts, in 1939 at the Cornish School in Seattle...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Ode to Gravity Series; Lou Harrison; Percussion Music; New Music; acetate discs; 78rpm
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