Lou Harrison : American musical maverick / Bill Alves and Brett Campbell.
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 choreo...
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Table of Contents:
- Oregon trails
- The silver court (1917-1934)
- The vast acreage
- A wonderful whirligig (1935-1936)
- The ultramodernist (1935-1936)
- The grand manner (1936-1937)
- Changing world (1937-1938)
- Double music (1938-1939)
- Drums along the Pacific (1939-1941)
- Into the labyrinth (1941-1942)
- Western dance (1942-1943)
- A hell of a town
- The lonesome isle (1943-1945)
- New York waltzes (1945-1946)
- Praises for the archangel
- Day of ascension (1946-1947)
- Tears of the angel (1947-1948)
- The perilous chapel (1948-1949)
- Pastorales (1949-1950)
- The white goddess
- A great playground (1951-1952)
- Lake Eden (1952-1953)
- Full circle
- A paradise garden of delights (1953-1955)
- Free style (1955-1957)
- Wild rights (1957-1961)
- Pacifica
- The human music
- Pacific rounds (1962-1963)
- The family of the court (1963-1966)
- Stars upon his face (1967-1969)
- Young Caesar and old granddad (1969-1974)
- Elegies (1973-1975)
- The great melody
- Golden rain (1975-1977)
- Playing together (1977-1979)
- Showers of beauty (1978-1982)
- Paradisal music (1982-1984)
- Stampede (1984-1987)
- New moon (1986-1990)
- Book music (1991-1995)
- An eden of music and mountains (1995-1997)
- Asian artistry (1997-2002)
- White ashes
- Appendix A: glossary of musical terms
- Appendix B: list of Harrison's compositions.