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Subject:	Lou Harrison
From:	Owen Daly Harpsichords <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Harpsichords and Related Topics <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 3 Sep 2017 07:22:35 -0700
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It was very hard to track down, but you should know about the stunning recording made of Harrison’s harpsichord (and other keyboard) music, in all sorts of interesting temperaments, made back in 2002 by Linda Berman-Hall, who teaches at UC Santa Cruz. As a matter of personal pleasure, I got to hear on the harpsichord that is now once again my own after many decades, the performance premier of a piece Linda had commissioned from Harrison, at a special series of concerts put-on at the Berkeley Festival in ’02 by Wildboar founder the late Joseph Spencer.

I have a copy here, but had a difficult time tracking down information about the recording. Here is a useful site, but it would, I think, be worth Lee’s time to contact Linda directly to discuss this. The recording is quite simply stunning.

A link:

https://www.discogs.com/Lou-Harrison-Linda-Burman-Hall-Complete-Harpsichord-Works-Music-For-Tack-Piano-Fortepiano-In-Histori/release/10592597 <https://www.discogs.com/Lou-Harrison-Linda-Burman-Hall-Complete-Harpsichord-Works-Music-For-Tack-Piano-Fortepiano-In-Histori/release/10592597>


Owen Daly  
> 
> Date:    Sun, 3 Sep 2017 01:31:12 +0000
> From:    Lee S Ridgway <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Lou Harrison
> 
> In this his centenary year, have any of you performed any of Harrison's harpsichord music? I have heard it only in recordings (on YouTube), of which there are very few, and it sounds well crafted and rather idiomatic to the instrument.
> 
> And in lieu of a harpsichord, Harrison suggested a tack piano. Yes, it is exactly what you think it is: thumbtacks placed in the felts of the hammers. There is a recording of some of the harpsichord pieces as played on the tack piano by Harrison himself. Interesting, but I will take the harpsichord.
> 
> Of course, the harpsichord also lends itself to Harrison's fascination with tunings and temperaments other than equal, especially "just" temperament.
> 
> Lee Ridgway 
> Boston


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