关于卢·哈里森

卢哈里森 lived his first nine years in Portland, Oregon, where he was born on 1917年5月14日. Subsequent residences included San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City (ten years), North Carolina, Oaxaca, New Zealand, and the Monterey Bay region, where he made his permanent home from 1963 until his death in 2003. 他和 Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, Howard Cooper, and Virgil Thomson. 在奥. 哈里森的 many grants and awards were those from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim fellowships, Rockefeller fellowships, the Fromm Foundation, Phoebe Ketchum Thorne, and Betty Freeman.

Residencies awarded for teaching and composing included Reed College, University of Hawaii, Black Mountain College, University of New Mexico, City of Basel 音乐 Academy, the Mozart Academy in the Czech Republic, and Dartington Hall in England. Mr. 哈里森 taught at San José State University, Mills College (from which he received an honorary doctorate), Cabrillo College, Greenwich House 音乐 School and, on a Fulbright scholarship, at the four main locations of the University of New Zealand. Mr. 哈里森收到 commissions for compositions from Lester Horton, Jean Erdman, Merce Cunningham, Cabrillo 音乐 Festival, the Mark Morris Company, Louisville 管弦乐队, San Francisco Symphony, 还有很多其他的. Major performances of his work have been held in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Bonn, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Sapporo, Ind一个sia, Korea, Basel, and elsewhere.

In addition to teaching and composing, Lou worked as a music critic, animal nurse, florist, dance accompanist, and forestry firefighter. He was also a calligraphist and poet (his poetry anthology Joys and Perplexities was printed in 一个 of his original fonts), painter, and writer. 1993年，他的书 音乐底漆 was republished in Tokyo in both English and Japanese. Lou helped introduce the Ind一个sian gamelan to the United States and, with William Colvig, constructed two large gamelan now in use at San José State University and Mills College.

Among major performances of Mr. 哈里森's work in 1995 were his 大提琴组曲 竖琴 by the Oakland Ballet for Remy Charlip's 路德维希和卢快乐的人 游行的 麻省理工, which opened the San Francisco Symphony season celebrating the inauguration of director Michael Tilson Thomas. The Brooklyn Philharmonic under the direction of Dennis Russell Davis, presented Lou's New First Suite for 字符串 in November of that year.