Research topic: Lou Harrison

Lou Harrison 1917-2003, American composer, b. Portland, Oreg. He studied composition in California with Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg . His early work stresses percussion while combining Western, Asian, African, and Latin American rhythms and often using unorthodox "found" instruments. In this period he also collaborated with John Cage . Moving to New York in 1943, Harrison became a music critic, part of Virgil Thomson 's circle, and a friend of Charles Ives , whose music he championed. All these composers influenced Harrison's extremely varied oeuvre. In 1953 he moved... Read more