Lou Harrison’s World of Tuning
Lou Harrison and Eva Soltes I can think of no more fitting way to inaugurate the MicroFest blog than to introduce the first event of our 2013 season, as it pays homage to a pioneer of music beyond the...
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Bill Alves Visual Music Ensemble By Bill Alves Our next MicroFest event will feature my Visual Music Ensemble, so here’s a little bit about this possibly puzzling title. Artists have adopted the term...
View ArticleThe Semaphores send Morse-code
by Wolfgang von Schweinitz (MicroFest will feature soprano Rebecca Tomlinson giving the American premiere of Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s “O-Ton “Automne” – Linguistikherbst” on our April 11th concert at...
View ArticleMassed Microtonal Guitars!
By Felix Salazar Los Angeles Electric 8 is a chamber group of eight electric guitarists dedicated to revitalizing chamber music for a new generation of listeners. The octet’s repertoire spans the late...
View ArticleGenesis of an Eroica
by Chris Banta How the original Marimba Eroica began: Back in the 1950’s, composer, Harry Partch, a philosophic music man seduced into carpentry, designed and built musical instruments to fit his...
View ArticleBecome Ocean: John Luther Adams and the Legacy of Lou Harrison
By BRETT CAMPBELL John Luther Adams, Bill Colvig, and Lou Harrison. Photo by Dennis Keeley MicroFest’s April 26 concert will present premieres from the American musical pioneer Lou Harrison as well as...
View ArticleText and Tuning: Accordant Commons at Automata
By Argenta Walther On May 7 th, MicroFest will present the vocal music group Accordant Commons, performing a diverse array of microtonal vocal works by Daniel Corral, Nomi Epstein, Evan Johnson and...
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Massed Microtonal Guitars!
By Felix Salazar is a chamber group of eight electric guitarists dedicated to revitalizing chamber music for a new generation of listeners. The octet’s repertoire spans the late Renaissance to the...
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Genesis of an Eroica
by Chris Banta How the original Marimba Eroica began: Back in the 1950’s, composer, Harry Partch, a philosophic music man seduced into carpentry, designed and built musical instruments to fit his...
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Become Ocean: John Luther Adams and the Legacy of Lou Harrison
By BRETT CAMPBELL MicroFest’s April 26 concert will present premieres from the American musical pioneer Lou Harrison as well as another composer who considered him one of his most important mentors,...
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Text and Tuning: Accordant Commons at Automata
By Argenta Walther On May 7th, MicroFest will present the vocal music group Accordant Commons, performing a diverse array of microtonal vocal works by Daniel Corral, Nomi Epstein, Evan Johnson and Leah...
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Plucking Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, available on Amazon. By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is...
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Harrison, Polansky, and Fiore
By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is blogging about the Harrison works on the concerts of MicroFest 2017. Alves and Brett Campbell are...
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Happy Birthday Lou!
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, available on Amazon. By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is...
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Lou Harrison and UCLA
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, available on Amazon. By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is...
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The Gamelan Works of Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, available on Amazon. By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is...
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Rare Gems of Lou Harrison in Pasadena, California
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, available on Amazon. By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is...
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Plucking Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, available on Amazon. By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is...
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Harrison, Polansky, and Fiore
By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is blogging about the Harrison works on the concerts of MicroFest 2017. Alves and Brett Campbell are...
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Happy Birthday Lou!
Lou Harrison: American Musical Maverick, by Bill Alves and Brett Campbell, available on Amazon. By Bill Alves In honor of the centennial of composer Lou Harrison, composer and author Bill Alves is...
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