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Article: Lou Harrison: A Portrait. (Barry Jekowsky, California Symphony Orchestra)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1997
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Lou Harrison, the country's senior gay composer, could not have ordered up a more sumptuous 80th birthday present--the first compact disc devoted to his music by a major company, performed by one of America's brightest young ensembles, the ten-year-old California Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its debonair young founding maestro, Barry Jekowsky.
The piece de resistance of this 80-minute anthology is the joyous Symphony No. 4 ("Last Symphony"), which draws on Harrison's love of Asian, Native American, and ancient European musics and features as narrator pop vocalist Al Jarreau. Included also is a bright performance of ...