GAMELAN (AND ON): THE ENDURING LEGACY OF LOU HARRISON
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Saturday May 2nd, 2009 - 7:30pm
King Street Theatre
36 King Street West, Kitchener
Tickets - TBA
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Co-presented with the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound
This special concert will feature the Evergreen Club Gamelan Ensemble and guests performing contemporary music for Indonesian gamelan ensemble. The concert will focus in particular on the work of American composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003) who wrote extensively for gamelan.
The concert will be preceded at 4 pm by the Canadian premiere screening of Lou Harrison: A World of Music, a new documentary about Lou Harrison’s life and work. Check the Open Ears website for more details www.openears.ca.
Programme:
Suite for percussion
Lou Harrison
Double Music for percussion Quartet
Cage/Harrison
Ibu Trish for gamelan
Lou Harrison
Threnody for Carlos Chavez
Lou Harrison
new work for prepared piano and gamelan
Gordon Monahan
Eight Haiku
John Cage
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