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Article: It had to be Lou: at 84, Lou Harrison remains one of the great American composers. (music).(Brief Article)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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- March 19, 2002
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"I've had a lot of fun writing," says Lou Harrison, the current dean of American symphonic composers. "I still do. If it's fun, it's real. If it's no fun, then it isn't art. Art is advanced play."
On March 7-8, two months before his 85th birthday, the marvelous maverick will be feted at San Francisco's Other Minds Festival. Harrison will deliver the preconcert talk for the world premiere of his new "Scenes From Nek Chand" for steel guitar and enjoy performances of seven other works he wrote between 1952 and 2000.
In the book Lou Harrison: Composing a World, Harrison states that music is essentially "a song and a dance"--a combination of winning melody ...