Lou Harrison concerto (was microtonal music for orchestra)

Joseph Pehrson wrote:

> As a related aside: I'm attending the Lou Harrison piano concerto by
> the ACO in a couple of weeks... I don't know about anybody else...

Maybe. When and where? Is this the piece that Keith Jarrett plays?

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* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
* 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm

--- In tuning@egroups.com, David Beardsley <xouoxno@v...> wrote:

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> Joseph Pehrson wrote:
>
> > As a related aside: I'm attending the Lou Harrison piano concerto
by the ACO in a couple of weeks... I don't know about anybody else...
>
> Maybe. When and where? Is this the piece that Keith Jarrett plays?
>

It's Sunday, October 15, 2000, 3PM at Carnegie Hall. Yes,
this is the piece was commissioned by Jarrett), but Ursula
Oppens is the pianist this time.

Here is the doodah:

http://www.americancomposers.org/rel20001015.htm

For people too lazy to click their mouzes, here is the extract:

ACO PRESS RELEASE:
"Currently one of the wise elders of American composition, Lou
Harrison was one of the first native-born American musical pioneers
to discover the creative point where West meets East. Fascinated by
gamelan music, Asian rhythmic and tuning systems, and endowed with a
musical sense of adventure and experimentation like no other, Lou
Harrison has written some of the most innovative music of the
century: long before it became an innovation in cuisine, Lou Harrison
embraced "Pacific Fusion." Harrison's Piano Concerto was written for
and first performed by Keith Jarrett with the ACO and Davies in 1985.
The specially tuned piano (all the white keys are tuned to "just
intonation" and the black keys to fourth and fifth intervals) opens
up a new melodic world in the first movement that is reminiscent of
the Indonesian gamelan. The second, third, and fourth movements are
riotous, meditative, and elegant, respectively. One of the great
heroes of contemporary composers, pianist Ursula Oppens, is the
soloist."
____________ ____ __ _
Joseph Pehrson

I'm hoping to write up a little something about it afterward for the
little "New Music Connoisseur" magazine...
___________ ____ __ _ _
Joseph Pehrson

or rather, Lou Harrison in general:

I recently bought scores to both his 'Summerfield Set' for piano or
harpsichord (1988) and his Sonata for harpsichord or fortepiano, quite
recent. Neither score recommends a tuning. Did he ever specify anything? I
play them on harpsichord which is NEVER in equal temperament, so far I
haven't had an 'aha!' moment where I think I've found one that makes the
Harrison sound suddenly new.

Judith Conrad, Clavichord Player (jconrad@tiac.net)
Music Minister, Calvary Baptist Church, Providence, RI
Director of Fall River Fipple Fluters
Piano and Harpsichord Tuner-Technician