Lou Harrison (1917-2003)

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Mon, 05/15/2017 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
CENTENARY CELEBRATION

The title of this week's show is also the title of a newly published Harrison biography by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, finished just in time to celebrate the centenary of the composer's birth (May 14, 1917).  Portland State University will be hosting a CeLOUbration in mid June: two concerts and a symposium. And this evening, A Different Nature will offer our musical tribute to one of the 20th Century's great originals, and one our favorites, Portland native Lou Harrison.

Episode Playlist

  • Time
    8:02
    Artist
    Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan
    Song
    Lou Harrison: Threnody for Carlos Chavez
    Album
    unreleased-from 30th Anniversary Concert, 2010
    Label
  • Time
    8:14
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    First Concerto (1939), for flute and percussion 1-Earnest, fresh, and fastish
    Album
    An Homage To Lou Harrison Vol. 2
    Label
    Dynamic (Italy)
  • Time
    8:16
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    First Concerto (1939), for flute and percussion 2-Slow and poignant
    Album
    An Homage To Lou Harrison Vol. 2
    Label
    Dynamic (Italy)
  • Time
    8:19
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    First Concerto (1939), for flute and percussion 3-Strong, singing, and fastish
    Album
    An Homage To Lou Harrison Vol. 2
    Label
    Dynamic (Italy)
  • Time
    8:30
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Music for Violin with Various Instruments - European, Asian & African: I Allegro, Virgoroso
    Album
    Drums Along The Pacific
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    8:34
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Music for Violin with Various Instruments - European, Asian & African: II Largo
    Album
    Drums Along The Pacific
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    8:38
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Music for Violin with Various Instruments - European, Asian & AfricanIII Alegro Moderato
    Album
    Drums Along The Pacific
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    8:44
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Song Of Quetzalcoatl
    Album
    Drums Along The Pacific
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    9:02
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Pacifika Rondo: 4. In Sequoia's Shade
    Album
    Pacifika Rondo & Other Works
    Label
    Phoenix
  • Time
    9:05
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Pacifika Rondo: 5. Netzahualcoyotl Builds a Pyramid
    Album
    Pacifika Rondo & Other Works
    Label
    Phoenix
  • Time
    9:07
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Pacifika Rondo: 6. A Hatred of the Fifth Bomb
    Album
    Pacifika Rondo & Other Works
    Label
    Phoenix
  • Time
    9:10
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Pacifika Rondo: 7. From the Dragon Pool
    Album
    Pacifika Rondo & Other Works
    Label
    Phoenix
  • Time
    9:14
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    La Koro Sutro - Kunsonoro Kaj Gloro
    Album
    Pacifika Rondo & Other Works
    Label
    Phoenix
  • Time
    9:20
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Kunsonoro Kaj Gloro
    Album
    La Koro Sutro
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    9:22
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Strofo 1
    Album
    La Koro Sutro
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    9:34
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Strofo 2
    Album
    La Koro Sutro
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    9:38
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Strofo 3
    Album
    La Koro Sutra
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    9:39
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Strofo 4
    Album
    La Koro Sutro
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    9:44
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Strofo 5
    Album
    La Koro Sutro
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    9:52
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Strofo 6
    Album
    La Koro Sutro
    Label
    New Albion
  • Time
    9:55
    Artist
    Lou Harrison
    Song
    Strofo 7 (excerpt)
    Album
    La Koro Sutro
    Label
    New Albion

Comments

ulpanaylaylo's picture

Bill Alves' and Brett Campbell's long overdue upcoming bio on Pacific Rim musical pioneer Lou Harrison should also cover the NW to Bay Area bohemian underground railroad and its listener-sponsored FM radio havens from KRAB in Seattle to KBOO in Po'Town and down to the greater Bay Area based in Berkeley's KPFA studios lodged in a cramped rickety walk-up above Edy's greasy spoon late-night diner on Shattuck Avenue and out to the Oakland hills at musical vanguard Mills College. The forthcoming book on Po'Town homeboy who never really got his due and his Medford partner also overlooked in Ore Lore dove-tails nicely with this welcome playlist by former TimbukTunes curator-proprietor and long-time A DIFFERENT NATURE collective contributor Andy Hosch's always sublime frequencies. If only there was more curiosity for the safe space that brave and creative trail-blazers like Lou Harrison and his musical instrument making partner Bill Colvig along with the host of their poetry (the Magus of Oakland Robert "OPENING OF THE FIELD" Duncan), dancers (ghosts of modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan's troupe) \movement actors, war-resistors, theater ritualists and Asian-influenced entrancing template-shattering musicians secured for U.S. all. As Campbell notes in this preview run a couple of days ago in Oregon ArtsWatch:
http://www.orartswatch.org/lou-harrison-at-100-a-global-musical-legacy-b...

The only free-form aural collagists to compare with KBOO's collectivists on A DIFF NATURE and Daniel Flessas's Friday After Midnight drop-in improvisers, players and mash-up plate-spinners on THE OUTSIDE WORLD would've been OTHER MIND founder and very creatively curious Fresno State College KPFA novice and Lou Harrison percussion apprentice turned sound collagist, aural artist and 1750 Arch Records studio co-founder\artist\ producer ongoing curator Charles Amirkhanian whose OTHER MINDS hasn't let much time pass between a fete for Lou Harrison's last live participatory project and this summer's international post-humus homage or CeLOUbration :
http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Amirkhanian.shtml

http://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/An-Other-tribute-to-Lou-Harriso...

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