Lou Harrison - Chamber and Gamelan Works

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Lou Harrison - Chamber and Gamelan Works

Daniel Kobialka (violin), Machiko Kobialka (tack piano I), James Barbagallo (tack piano II), Patricia Jennerjohn (celesta), Don Marconi (percussion), Jerome Neff (percussion), Scott L. Hartman (French horn), Susan Bates (violin) & Lou Harrison (suling player)

Gamelan Sekar Kembar, Kronos...

Release Date: 19th Nov 2007
Catalogue No: NW80643
Label: New World
Length: 66 minutes

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Harrison, L: Concerto In Slendro

Work length9:40

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Patricia Jennerjohn, Don Marconi, Machiko Kobialka, James Barbagallo, Jerome Neff, Daniel Kobialka
Gamelan Sekar Kembar, Kronos Quartet, Manhattan Percussion Ensemble
Robert Hughes

I. Allegro

Track length3:06

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II. Molto adagio

Track length4:18

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III. Allegro

Track length2:16

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Harrison, L: Main Bersama-Sama

Work length7:22

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Scott L. Hartman
Gamelan Sekar Kembar
Paul Price

Harrison, L: Threnody for Carlos Chavez

Work length7:06

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Susan Bates
Gamelan Sekar Kembar
Paul Price

Harrison, L: Serenade for Betty Freeman and Franco Assetto

Work length5:53

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Lou Harrison
Gamelan Sekar Kembar
Paul Price

Harrison, L: String Quartet Set

Work length26:31

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Joan Jeanrenaud, Daivd Harrington, John Sherba, David Harrington, Hank Dutt
Kronos Quartet
Paul Price

I. Variations

Track length5:19

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II. Plaint

Track length4:12

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III. Estampe

Track length4:00

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IV. Rondeaux

Track length8:20

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V. Usul

Track length4:40

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Harrison, L: Suite for Percussion

Work length9:37

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Gamelan Sekar Kembar
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Paul Price
Paul Price

I. Moderato

Track length3:45

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II. Slow

Track length3:10

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III. Recitative; Moderato allegro

Track length2:42

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Lou Harrison (1917–2003) believed fervently in music’s power to create cultural bridges. To this end he applied his prodigious skills and creative energies to creating syncretic works that link diverse musical languages. Faulted at times for his eclecticism, Harrison responded with a vibrant defense of hybridity, cultivating a musical multiculturalism long before that term—or even the concept—held the currency it now enjoys.

Harrison’s major contributions to twentieth-century American music lie in three main areas: (1) the development of the percussion ensemble as a viable performance medium; (2) the linkage of Asian and Western musical styles; and (3) the exploration of just intonation tuning systems. All three are represented in the works on this disc.

The influences manifest in the works on this disc remained with Harrison for the rest of his career. He ultimately composed over three dozen gamelan pieces and the estampie became one of his favorite forms (he used it in a dozen works, ranging from solo keyboard to full orchestra). Nor did his advocacy of just intonation systems diminish: he called for pure intervals in works in all genres. But the most distinctive characteristic of Harrison’s music lies in its inherent plurality. He was drawn to community, both in performance groups such as the gamelan and the percussion ensemble, and in the compositions themselves, which unite elements from various times and places. Harrison’s originality lay in the way he creatively combined these elements to produce novel syntheses. His fervent advocacy of hybridity led to a type of transethnic music that truly foreshadowed the post-modern celebration of diversity.

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Gamelan Sekar Kembar, Kronos Quartet & The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Robert Hughes & Paul Price

Lou Harrison - Chamber and Gamelan Works

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