Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments...

aluminum. Harrison worked with John Cage in the 40s on percussion compositions with found metal objects, resulting in alternate scaled music. Lou Harrison and...

Lou Harrison composed in a wide array of musical styles and for various ensembles. The following list is all of his compositions sorted by both genre and...

electrician and amateur musician who was the partner for 33 years of composer Lou Harrison, whom he met in San Francisco in 1967. Colvig helped construct the American...

addition to his work in contemporary classical music—notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise...

context. Composers such as Charles Ives, Dane Rudhyar, Duke Ellington, and Lou Harrison connected the emancipation of the dissonance with the emancipation of...

Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, p.515, n.12. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253026439. Çoğulu, Tolgahan (Apr 14, 2010). Lou Harrison -...

Composer Lou Harrison has been one of the most recent proponents and developers of new pentatonic scales based on historical models. Harrison and William...

Francisco Symphony & Edo de Waart "Suite for Symphonic Strings: Nocturne" (Lou Harrison) – The New Professionals Orchestra & Rebecca Miller "Lizard Point" –...

recognized through the efforts of contemporaries like Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison, and he came to be regarded as an "American original". He was also among...

consciously or unconsciously by the desire for the regeneration of mankind. Lou Harrison reviewed a 1945 concert of Hovhaness' music, which included his 1944...

well-temperaments, including Pythagorean tuning, including works by Lou Harrison, LaMonte Young, John Cage, and Harry Partch. He often arranges pieces...

date from 1984 and 1990. In 1988, New World Records released the CD Lou Harrison: Piano Concerto and Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra, featuring...

century, they have prominently featured in the work of composers such as Lou Harrison, Giacinto Scelsi, Alfred Schnittke and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and later...

In the 1940s, composers John Cage, Virgil Thomson, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison, composed a set of pieces using this same process—writing a measure of...

serving as a great influence to similar artists at the time, including Lou Harrison, George Antheil, and John Cage, among others. He is considered one of...

Young Caesar is an opera written in 1970 by Lou Harrison which depicting the younger years of Roman dictator Julius Caesar, such as his relationship with...

in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison. He built his own instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions...

of a few non-Chinese composers, including Unsuk Chin, Jukka Tiensuu, Lou Harrison, Tim Risher, Daníel Bjarnason, Guus Janssen and Christopher Adler. Some...

1950) Lou Groza (1924–2000), American footballer, Hall of Fame placekicker for the Cleveland Browns Lou Harrison (1917–2003), American composer Lou Hedley...

Bradley Joseph, John Adams, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic...

Miller, Fredric Lieberman (2006). Lou Harrison, p.72. ISBN 0-252-03120-2. Leta E. Miller, ed. (1988). Lou Harrison: Selected keyboard and chamber music...

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, NY ECM 2019 1986-01-30, 1988-05-21, -22 Lou Harrison: Piano Concerto - Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra With The...

Additionally, notable contributors to the subsequent repertoire include Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney, and Christian Wolff. When a properly...

The U.S. and the Holocaust. Currently Gyan is engaged as the 2023/24 Lou Harrison House Composer in Residence in Joshua Tree, CA. Food for the Bearded...

Miller Theater, including Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing, For Lou Harrison, and In the White Silence. On February 8, 2015, Adams was awarded a GRAMMY...

Cowell, John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Johanna Beyer. The year 1939 saw the composition of Cage's First Construction (in Metal) and Harrison's Canticle no. 1...

(1941). During this period his notable students included John Cage and Lou Harrison. In 1941, he became a citizen of the United States. Here he was the first...

1905–1988, intuitive linear tone deviations, quarter tones, eighth tones) Lou Harrison (U.S.A., 1917–2003, just intonation) Ivor Darreg (U.S.A., 1917–1994)...

Quartet and Silk Road Ensemble, and has premiered works by Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, Zhao Jiping, and Zhou Long, among...