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	Lou Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harrison is particularly noted for incorporating elements of the music of other cultures into his work, with a number of pieces featuring traditional Indonesian gamelan instruments, and several more featuring versions of them made out of tin cans and other materials.
		Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon, but moved with his family to a number of locations around the San Francisco Bay area as a child.
		Harrison's mature musical style is based on "melodicles", short motifs which are turned backwards and upsidedown to create a musical mode the piece is based on.
	www.ukpedia.com /l/lou-harrison.html (822 words)

	In The First Person: Lou Harrison
		Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon in 1917, but spent most of his formative years in northern California, where his family moved when he was nine.
		Harrison had always been known for his fluent compositional capabilities, but now he had the luxury of free time as well, in addition to physical space, quiet, and inspiring natural surroundings.
		Harrison's devotion to pacifism and world fellowship is even reflected in the work's title, which uses the international language Esperanto (another of his passions).
	www.newmusicbox.org /archive/firstperson/harrison/bio.html (3177 words)

	"I Remember Lou"
		Lou Harrison sixty years ago was concocting raga-type ostinatos identical to those today of Glass or Reich, with the notable difference that while all three men prepare canvases that are nonpareil, only Harrison super-imposes a drawing–a melody upon the canvas which gives it a reason for being.
		Lou Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon in 1917.
		Lou was unique, in the beauty of his music, in the depth and variety of his interests, in his generosity, and in his erudition.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Irememberlou.shtml (8730 words)

	Cizmic Interviews with Lou Harrison, ECHO volume 1 issue 1 fall 1999
		Harrison spent his youth in San Francisco studying composition with experimental composer and new music advocate Henry Cowell, and is thus indebted to an experimental strain of American composition that has had a strong Californian contingent.
		Harrison’s conscious decision to return to California and live in "Pacifica" was in a sense also a decision to turn away from the dominance of the Western European art-music tradition, preferring to keep them at hand only insofar as they seem useful.
		Harrison’s mantra "it’s all music," begins to emerge in a different light; it is, in fact, an obstinately egalitarian vision in the face of acknowledged strife.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /echo/Volume1-Issue1/cizmic/cizmic-interview.html (4546 words)

	SJSU School of Music & Dance - Lou Harrison - Highlights
		Correspondence from the 30's indicates a sort of tug-of-war between Lou's interest in music and poetry which was thankfully resolved in his scripting of lyric and his work with many writers and poets such as Elsa Gidlow, James Broughton, Robert Gordon and Jonathan Williams.
		Harrison attended the East-West Music Conference in Tokyo and through a Rockefeller grant was allowed to return and study and teach.
		Lou and his partner William Colvig have designed and built two Javanese style gamelan (in use at San Jose State University and Mills College) as well as the "Old Grand-dad" of American Gamelans finished in 1970 for the premiere performance of Lou's Buddhist liturgical work "La Koro Sutro".
	www.music.sjsu.edu /links/harrison/harrison_highlights.html (578 words)

	Lou Harrison - Works 1939-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harrison completed the Gregorian-like chant for the entire 5 movements of the work, but only finished the percussion accompaniment for the first 2.
		Harrison first gained notoriety in the late 1930s for the pioneering San Francisco percussion concerts he staged with John Cage, having prowled Chinatown for gongs and temple blocks and scoured junkyards for brake drums, washtubs and other "found" instruments.
		The new recording, "Lou Harrison - Works 1939-2000," was largely completed under the composer's supervision and features a delightful sampling of instrumental and vocal works from throughout his career.
	www.mode.com /catalog/122harrison.html (1801 words)

	Embellishments 7: Lou Harrison: Selected Keyboard and Chamber Music, 1937-1994
		Lou Harrison's ability to combine wide-ranging influences, while at the same time projecting a sense of cohesion and stylistic individuality, is the essence of his skill.
		Harrison's path out of his mental crisis was arduous: it took nearly a decade before he felt fully healed.
		Harrison generally begins the compositional process by devising a set of "controls" designed to manage the array of possibilities offered by his historical and cultural influences.
	www.areditions.com /rr/embellish/1999_07/harrison.html (1145 words)

	Frog Peak Artist: Lou Harrison
		Scores for Lou Harrison's compositions for gamelan are also listed in the catalog of the American Gamelan Institute.
		Harrison: Symphony on G; Ruggles: Organum; Men and Mountains.
		This is an edition of Johanna Beyer's choral work assisted by Lou Harrison.
	www.frogpeak.org /fpartists/fpharrison.html (249 words)

	Harrison, Lou on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harrison had an ongoing interest in Balinese music and is considered the founder of the American gamelan (a mainly percussion Indonesian orchestra) movement.
		Harrison was also a college teacher, poet, essayist, painter, and longtime gay activist.
		It had to be Lou: at 84, Lou Harrison remains one of the great American composers.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HarrisonL1.asp (476 words)

	For Composer Lou Harrison, Penmanship Counts
		Harrison also has composed for pieces of percussion that are rather more domestic in nature: brake drums, clock coils, coffee cans, garbage pails and flower pots, for example.
		Harrison was concerned that the letters would be well-shaped and could be read in a variety of sizes without modification.
		Harrison acknowledged this was the case, although he deemed the effort's comprehensiveness as unintentional.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/mirapaul/051597mirapaul.html (1660 words)

	Lou Harrison
		Lou Harrison lived his first nine years in Portland, Oregon, where he was born in May 14, 1917.
		Harrison has established himself as one of the most original and important American composers of the 20th century.
		Lou Harrison passed away Sunday evening, February 2, 2003, on his way to attend a festival of his music at Ohio State University at Columbus.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Harrison.shtml (252 words)

	Lou Harrison Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lou Harrison was one of the great composers of the twentieth century--a pioneer in the use of alternate tunings, world music influences, and new instruments.
		Harrison also published a study of the music of atonal composer Carl Ruggles, and the influence of Ruggles and Schoenberg comes through in works such as Harrison's Symphony on G and his opera Rapunzel.
		As a composer, artist, poet, calligraphist, peace activist, Lou Harrison dedicated his life to bringing beauty into the world, and those of us who remember his warm generosity, his integrity of spirit, and his irrepressible joyfulness, owe a great debt of gratitude that he did.
	www2.hmc.edu /~alves/harrisonbio.html (694 words)

	USATODAY.com - George Harrison photos stolen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lou Harrison said someone shattered a window of her car and stole a briefcase containing photos of her and her brother and the lyrics to a number of her brother's songs.
		Harrison had driven from her southern Illinois home to donate memorabilia to the downtown Little Rock library, which is scheduled to open Nov. 18.
		Harrison said she decided to donated the items because she sees a connection between Clinton and The Beatles.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-10-05-harrison-photos_x.htm (307 words)

	classical music - andante - lou harrison, american music's 'grand old maverick,' is dead at age 85
		He collapsed on Sunday evening, apparently due to a heart attack, at a restaurant in Lafayette, Indiana, while traveling from his California home to a festival of his music to be held this week in Columbus, Ohio.
		Harrison was known as a maverick, even in the context of the American contemporary new music scene.
		For years this accessibility kept Harrison from being taken seriously by the East Coast-centered contemporary music establishment in the United States — his works were dismissed in some New York circles as Californian "happy music" —; and for some years Europe seemed barely aware that he existed.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=19858 (800 words)

	Cabrillo Music Festival \|\| Lou Harrison
		Lou Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon in 1917, but spent his formative years in California where his family moved when he was 9.
		Harrison moved back to California in 1953, settling in the (then) rural village of Aptos where he has lived ever since.
		In 1975, Harrison met the renowned gamelan master and teacher K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat (Pak Cokro) and began an intensive study of traditional Javanese gamelan techniques.
	www.cabrillomusic.org /2001/bios/harrison.html (589 words)

	New Albion Artists: Lou Harrison
		Harrison fell in an apparent heart attack and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
		Harrison, and released a number of his recordings, with two more in process, yet we are just a small spoke in the wheel of friends, composers, musicians, conductors, labels, publishers, artists and creative individuals who have been inspired by the deep spirituality and indomitable melodic line Lou offered the world.
		Lou Harrison has travelled extensively, adding to the global resonance his artistry, performing and studying with the musical masters of varied cultures, and presenting his work to enthusiastic audiences everywhere.
	www.newalbion.com /artists/harrisonl (507 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Lou Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		COMPOSER Lou Harrison's exotic creative idiosyncrasies notwithstanding, it's the respect and admiration for his music shown by performing musicians that accounts for his continual resurrection in the public consciousness.
		Harrison's was a unique and groundbreaking vocabulary, one that boldly embraced the music of dissimilar traditions, then was synthesized in his own calligraphy and sung in his own voice.
		Though the body of contemporary harpsichord music is small, most of it is interesting to play, she says, adding, "Lou's [pieces] were among the only ones that were pretty in addition to interesting." Over the years, Harrison attended Turner's SJCO concerts at Le Petit Trianon, including one just before his death in 2003.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.02.05/harrison-0509.html (680 words)

	WNYC - Music - Tribute to Lou Harrison on Evening Music
		Composer Lou Harrison, the beloved éminence grise of contemporary American music, died at the age of 85 on February 3.
		Harrison pioneered world music and was among a line of iconoclastic 20th century American composers that included such innovators as Charles Ives and John Cage.
		Harrison extensively revised it over the next five years and the finished version was played in 1995 by the California Symphony, led by Barry Jekowski.
	www.wnyc.org /music/articles/11218 (394 words)

	classical music - andante - the divine lou harrison
		Lately "the Divine Lou" (as choreographer Mark Morris calls him) has been threatening to take a sabbatical from his prolific composing to focus on what he considers higher priorities: the new winter home he designed for himself in the California desert; his poetry and painting; studying sign language.
		Above all, Harrison wants to concentrate on playing, teaching and composing the Javanese gamelan music —; which he calls "the sound of honeyed thunder" — that has so beguiled him for the last quarter-century.
		Lou Harrison: When I was a kid in Portland [Oregon], my mother went to play mah-jongg in the afternoons and we kids had to entertain one another, usually by listening to the radio or phonograph records.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=19715 (1225 words)

	Lou Harrison - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harrison spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was influenced by everything from Cantonese Opera to Gregorian chants to traditional Mexican music.
		Early on in his career, Harrison studied composition with Henry Cowell, worked closely with John Cage, studied in Los Angeles with Arnold Schoenberg, and conducted the New York Little Symphony in the premiere of Charles Ives's Third Symphony (Ives even shared his Pulitzer Prize with Harrison).
		Harrison and his late partner William Colvig built one of the first American gamelans using aluminum slabs, empty #10 tin cans, and galvanized garbage cans.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/louharrison.html (467 words)

	Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Lou Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harrison represented the last in line of 20th-century American individualist composers.
		He pioneered world music, and he was amoung the first composers to create all-percussion pieces and to integrate the musical traditions and instruments of Asia and the West.
		Harrison also taught at San Jose State University and Mills College in Oakland, Ca.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7207976&pt=Lou+Harrison (152 words)

	NewMusicbox
		During his high school years he formally studied jazz piano, Gregorian chant, composition, and conducting, although it was his exposure to the music of many different cultures during the 1930s—including Cantonese opera, Indonesian gamelan, and Native American and Mexican music—that had the most significant role in shaping his compositional output.
		It was Cowell who first introduced Harrison to a young, fellow-Californian named John Cage, and the two of them organized a series of now legendary percussion concerts that featured their own homemade instruments constructed from household items and street junk.
		Harrison began teaching at Mills College in 1936, where to this day students study and perform on Harrison’s instruments.
	www.newmusicbox.org /news.nmbx?id=00194 (946 words)

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