CALARTS WILL OFFER COMPOSER'S WORKS.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. will present a free concert celebrating the life of the late California composer Lou Harrison at noon Thursday in the Main Gallery on campus. Harrison died earlier this month of a heart attack on his way to a concert of his works in the Midwest. The CalArts concert will feature works by the composer performed by CalArts faculty and students Trevor Berens, Natalie Brejcha, Johnny Chang, Alma Fernandez, Peter Miyamoto, Debra Penberthy, Jonathan Stehney, Nick Terry, Phala Tracy and Sarah Wass. The program will include Harrison's ``Vestiunt Salve salve (sav) ointment. salve n. An analgesic or medicinal ointment. salve v. salve ointment. ,'' ``Songs in the Forest,'' ``Summerfield Set and Triphony,'' ``Grand Duo'' and ``Serenade serenade [Ital. sera=evening], term used to designate several types of musical composition. Opera and song literature yield numerous examples of the serenade sung or played by a lover at night beneath his beloved's window; outstanding is in C.'' Harrison's musical composition and performance were said to transcend cultural boundaries. Born in Oregon in 1917, Harrison grew up in the culturally diverse San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay , where Cantonese opera and the music of California's Spanish and Mexican cultures all influenced his work. He also developed an interest in Indonesian Gamelan gamelan Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. music through early recordings. His early compositions included a large body of percussion music, combining Western, Asian, African and Latin American rhythmic influences with homemade ``junk'' instruments. In the mid-1940s he worked for the New York Herald Tribune The New York Herald Tribune was a daily newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald. The Herald Tribune as a music critic, then returned to California a decade later. Harrison's involvement in the synthesis of Pacific Rim musical cultures is reflected in such works as ``Pacifica Rondo'' and ``Lo Koro Sutro'' for chorus and gamelan. Over the decades, he maintained an interest in dance, theater and the craft of instrument building and was also an accomplished puppeteer who composed for puppet theater. CalArts is at 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia. For information on the free concert, call (661) 253-7800. |
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