Thursday, September 7th
timeless
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Suite for Violin with American Gamelan (1973)
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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2021
Thursday, March 25th
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Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Song of Queztecoatl (1941); Third Coast Percussion, live (studio), 2014
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other day, Chicago
2021
Thursday, March 11th
like nobody else
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra (1959); Todd Reynolds (violin), Third Coast Percussion, John Corkill (percussion), 2018
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I’d have to be really quick
to describe clouds—
a split second’s enough
for them to start being something else.— Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012, MCOTD Hall of Fame), from “Clouds” (translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak)
2020
Wednesday, April 29th
This I could listen to all day.
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), compositions; ensemble 0, live, France (Pau), 2010
Fugue
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2014
Monday, August 25th
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Second Symphony (“Elegiac,” 1988); BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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never growing old
Mr. and Mrs.
Butterfly—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2013
Monday, November 11th
People talk about getting enough of this or that in their daily diet. But what about beauty? There’s an epidemic, unreported by TV, radio, newspapers, of beauty malnutrition.
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Threnody for Carlos Chavez (1978); William Winant Percussion Group with David Abel (viola), live, Berkeley, Calif., 2010
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art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago (while waiting for the jury to return a verdict in a trial involving an alleged conspiracy to steal millions of dollars of diamonds)
Paul Cezanne, The Bay of Marseilles, Seen From L’Estaque, c. 1885
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