CD Harrison, Lou: The Perilous Chapel

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Tracks:

Harp Suite
1. Serenade for Frank Wigglesworth 1:50
2. Avalokiteshvara 2:16
3. From Music for Bill & Me 3:33
4. Jhala 2:00
5. Sonata in Ishartum 1:32
6. Beverly's Troubadour Piece 1:24
7. A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen 2:05
 
Serenade for Guitar and Percussion
8. Round 1:40
9. Air 3:06
10. Infinite Canon 1:30
11. Usul 2:43
12. Sonata 2:00
 
Perilous Chapel
13. Prelude: andante - Poco maestoso 4:06
14. Barbaro - Brilliante - Energico 4:48
15. Alleluia: Poco adagio 4:15
 
16. Fugue for Percussion 3:48
17. Song of Quetzelcoatl 6:30
18. May Rain 3:05
 
Total: 54:04

 

Please note: in the spring of 2003 this title was discontinued when the guitar works were reissued with additional music on Lou Harrison's "Serenado"

In the late thirties of this century and the early forties I was, as have been many Californians, enamored of Mexico. At about this time a small book of reproductions from Mexican codices, all in color, came into my possession, and I immediately wanted to do something about the life of the culture-hero Quetzalcoatl which was there depicted. It was also a period in which one or two films were made in which the camera explored a painting in detail with musical accompaniment. Thus I immediately thought of such a thing in connection with the Mexican codices. I did not have any access to film at the time, but went ahead enthusiastically to the composition of a score. This must have been a hint to Eric Marin a few years ago, for in the excellent film about me and Bill, "Cherish, Conserve, Consider, Create", he made a passage in which part of the score is used with still photos of Mexican architecture and people. I still think that a complete film could be made based on my original idea, but in any event the score, which is played with fair frequency, I like to think reminds audiences of the extraordinary and often very beautiful civilization of Mexico and its pre-Columbian history. We first performed the work in San Francisco, and I believe that that was in the concert that John Cage and I gave in the California Hall - the concert which was concluded by the "Double Music" which he and I composed together and which resulted in the first public recording of one of my works for percussion ensemble.

--Lou Harrison

 

 

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