Lou Harrison- _Serenado_

Lou Harrison- _Serenado_
David Tanenbaum, guitar
William Winant, percussion
New Albion Records NA123

On the piece 'Scenes from Nek Chand' Tanenbaum plays a National Steel
guitar in a tuning made especially for the recording.

From the liner notes:

"I don't think increasing complexity is the answer to anything. I don't
think significance is opposed to beauty." -Lou Harrison

---
Hanuman Zhang, musical mad scientist (no, I don't wanna take over the world,
just the sound spectrum...)

"What strange risk of hearing can bring sound to music - a hearing whose
obligation awakens a sensibility so new that it is forever a unique, new-born,
anti-death surprise, created now and now and now. .. a hearing whose moment
in time is always daybreak." - Lucia Dlugoszewski

"The wonderousness of the human mind is too great to be transferred into
music only by 7 or 12 elements of tone steps in one octave." - shakuhachi master
Masayuki Koga

"There's a rabbinical tradition that the music in heaven will be microtonal"
-annotative interpretation of Schottenstein Tehillim, 92:4, the verse being:
"Upon a ten-stringed * instrument and upon lyre, with singing accompanied by
harp." [* utilizing new tones]

NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"

"God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself." -Thomas
Merton

LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what happens
when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art
of creation"

John Schneider did the same Harrison pieces for a CD he put out. J