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Article: A NEW MUSIC HARVEST WILL TO BE REAPED IN OCTOBER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 16, 1989
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What the Boston Early Music Festival is to long-dead composers
played on old instruments, a brand new venture called the New Music
Harvest/Boston 1989 hopes to be to the hear and now. The initial
gathering of this harvest is the final week of October.
Two years in the planning, the festival has been shaped by
composer Charles Fussell, who teaches at Boston University. He had
expert advice from three other composers -- Lukas Foss, Henry
Threadgill and Christopher Kendall -- who, as outsiders, could keep
Boston's dazzling riches in perspective.
Everyone wanted to do something. From the 90 proposals for
concerts and related events, the planners chose 15 organizations to
give full-length ...