The Chronicles of Lou

A day by day account of Squire Harrison's professional activities from 1986 to 1993.

1986

• January 4: Lecture, San Francisco Architectural Club-- "Harmonic Proportions in Classical Architecture."
• January 30 - February 20: Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
• March 1-4: Lectures, University of Louisiana. Lafayette.
• March 5: Honored guest of the American society of University Composers, Toronto.
• March 10-12: Residency and Concerts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• April 10: Lectures, Stanford University.
• April 11: Performance, Piano Concerto, Keith Jarret, soloist San Francisco Symphony.
• April 14-20: Residency, lectures, concerts, Cornish Institute, Seattle.
• April 25: Gamelan Concert, Stanford University.
• April 26: Gamelan concert, Humbolt State University, Arcata, CA.
• April 30: Lecture, San Jose State University.
• May 15: Gamelan concert, Ohlone College, San Jose, California.
• July 1: Premiere, "Three Songs", Portland Gay Men's Chorus, Portland, Oregon.
• July 8 - 21: Lectures, performances, Cheltenham Festival, England.
• July 22 -August 3: Major performances, "La Koro Sutro", "Piano Concerto", Cabrillo Festival, Santa Cruz, California.
• August 5-14: Gamelan concerts, Piano Concerto", "Third Symphony", etc., Saratoga Performing Arts Center, New York, Philadelphia Orchestra.
• August 19-20: Gamelan concerts, Expo 86, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
• August 28: First service on funding committee, Santa Cruz Cultural Council.
• September 8 to December: Teaching gamelan class for Cabrillo College.
• October 18: Lecture and workshop, University of California Santa Cruz.
• November 2: Concert for American Music Week, UC Santa Cruz.
• November 5-6: Concert for American Music Week, UC Santa Barbara:
• November 7-8: Concert for American Music Week , UC Los Angeles.
• November 10 : Concert for American Music Week , UC San Diego.
• November 14: Lecture, Stanford University
  
• November 15: Concert for American Music Week, UC San Francisco.
  
• December 2-7: Lectures and concerts, Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and Third Symphony, Cincinnati Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies conductor.
  
• 22: Distinguished Achievement award, American Music Center, Lincoln Center, New York.

1987

• January 26 to May: Cabrillo College gamelan class.
  
• January 27: Lecture, UC Berkeley.
• February-March: Exhibit of instruments designed with William Colvig, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco.
• March 11: Radio Interview, Pacifica KPFA, Berkeley
• March 14: Gamelan concert in honor of William Colvig, Sponsorship by California Crafts Council, UC San Francisco.
• March 17-21: Premiere, ballet by Clark Morris to Restrict Songs", Meany Auditorium, Seattle Men's Chorus, and KUOW radio interview aired on National Public Radio.
• March 29: Gamelan concert, premiere, "Four Coyote Stories", St. John's Church, Capitola.
• April 9-19: Panels, concerts, guest of American Society ox University Composers, University of Illinois, Evanston.
• April 25-26: Concert and lecture, "The Baroque in Modern Art and Music", San Francisco Architectural Club, Green Room, Opera House, San Francisco.
• April 29: Percussion concert, UC Santa Cruz. iviav
• May 1-2: 70th birthday concert, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
• May 10: Showings of Eric Marinas film "Cherish, Conserve, Consider, Create", Santa Cruz.
• May 14: 70th birthday concert, Mills College, premiere, "Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan", and "Ariadne", flute and percussion, and "Varied Trio". A Lou Harrison Reader issued. By Peter Garland, published by Soundings Press.
• May 17: 70th birthday concert by New Music for~xs, Watsonville.
• May 18: Gamelan concert, Cabrillo College.
• May 21: Concert, Portland Gay Men's Chorus, Portland, Oregon.
• May 28: Honors awarded concert, Santa Cruz County, Cabrillo College.
• May 29: Concert, Nell Music \forks, Santa Cruz.
• May 30-31: Premiere, string orchestra version of "Strinq Quartet Set, arranged and conducted by Norman Masonson, San Anselmo and Olema, California.
• June 5: Eric Marines ''Cherlsh, Conserve, Consider, Create" at Roxv Theater, San Francisco.
• June 19: Gamelan Si Betty concert, San Francisco State University.
• July 16: "Elegiac Symphony", Cabrillo Festival, Dennis Russell Davies conductor.
• July 18: Gamelan concert, "Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan", wayang, Cabrillo Music Festival.
• July 19: String quartet concert and panel, Cabrillo Music Festival.
• July 30: Interview for RFD magazine, winter 87-88 issue.
• August 7: Reunion with Liang Tsai-Ping in Santa Cruz.
• August 19-l6:Catslxill Conservatory concerts, Windfall Barn, Courtwright Center, and Renssalearville Instute, New Yorn state.
• September 19: Assembly and binding party for Chris Daubert's serigraph edition of 'Mass for Salnt Cecilia's Day".
• September 14: New version "Ariadne", UC Santa Cruz.
• September 25: Record "Philemon and Baukis", Dan Kolbialka, violin, Gamelan Si Betty, San Jose State University concert hall.
• November 2: Gamelan concert, SJSU.
• November 6: Concert, "La Koro Sutro", Philip Brett, conductor, UC Berkeley Hertz Hall.
• November 8-9: Record alla Koro Sutro", unvaried Trio", and "Suite for Violin and American Gamelanll (co-composer Richard Dee), Hertz lIall, for Foster Reed and New Albion Records.
• November 12-15: Films, lectures, concert, Sacramento State University.
• December 15: Re-record 'Philemon and Baukis", SJSU concert hall.

1988

• January 28: Premiere, "Summerfield Set" for harpsichord and organ, Mills College.
• February 29-March 12: Residency, lectures, University of Southern California. "Concerto in Slendro" performance by Los Angeles Philharmonic.
• March 17: Lectures, concert, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• March 18: "Coyote Stories" as wayang and movement I of "Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan~~, Barbara Benary, dalang, Ivar Mikaschoff, piano, Gamelan Son or Lion, Buffalo Festival, Buffalo, New York.
• March 19: Complete Lou Harrison concert, Trinity Lutheran Church, Buffalo.
• March 26: James Broughton films with Lou Harrison music, Castro Theater, San Francisco.
• April 9-10: The revised second opera "Young Caesar" producedby Portland Gay Mens Chorus, Intermediate Theater, Portland Oregon.
• April 14: Lecture, concerts, New Music Society, Syracuse, N.Y.
• April 23-25: Lectures, concerts, "Voices of Change", co-guest with Takumitsu, Dallas, Texas.
• May 2: Gamelan concert, Cabrillo College.
• May 20: Gamelan concert, (Si Aptos and Si Betty), St. Bede's church, Palo Alto.
• May 22: Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa degree conferred, Mills College, Oakland, California.
• June 12-13: Lectures, concerts, Houston, Texas.
• June 14-16: for Jean Erdman's video project, Manhattan.
• July 23: Premiere "Air for the Poet", Cabrillo Music Festival.
• July 28: Premiere "Grand Duo for Violin and Piano' (Tecco and Davies), Cabrillo Festival.
• August 13-21: "Composer-to-Composer" conference, Telluride, Colorado, meetings, public lecture with William Colvig.
• October 6-10: Third Symphony, 4 performances, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dennis Davies conductor, panel for New Music America, Philadelphia.
• October 19-23: Guest composer with Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dennis Russel Davies, conductor. Performance of Piano Concerto, Ursula Oppens, piano.
• November 13: Indonesian music panel at UC Santa Cruz.
• November 18: Premiere, Mass for Saint Cecilias Day at Santa Cruz.
• November 26: Opera panel, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose
• November 30-Dec. 2: New York: Eleqiac Symphony at Carnegie Hall. Dennis Russell Davies, conductor. Same recorded at SUNY Purchase for Musical Heritage Society. American Composers Orchestra. Visit Virgil Thomson. At Miami: During New Music America festival, Third Symphony performed by New World Symphony, Davies conducting.
• December 17: Record Mass for Saint Cecilias Day at studio in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

1989

• February 16: Exploratorium, San Francisco--film and demonstrations with William Colvig
• March 15-17: Residency at University of Arizona in Tempe--Film, lectures, rehearsals, all-Harrison concert
• April 1: Interview, assistance, Peter Sculthorpe and crew filming at Aptos for Australian Broadcasting
• April 23: Tuning concert, UC Santa Cruz, Lou and Bill play.
• April 24: Tuning concert, Monterey, Lou and Bill play.
• April 25-May 7: At Community Hospital, Santa Cruz, for triple-bypass heart surgery.
• July 10-12: Record Canticle #3, Ariadne, and Summerfield Set for Music Masters with Leta Miller, Willie Winant, and Nohema Fernandez, Davies cond. At UCSC.
• July 20-30: Cabrillo Music Festival: Grand Duo performed at Aptos, (Dennis Russell Davies and Romuald Tecco); Solstice at Paul Masson Vinyards, Davies cond., Canticle #3, Ken Harrison cond.
• July 31: At UCSC Solstice recorded, Davies cond.
• August 3-8 Ravinia Dell Festival, Chicago, Davies cond. Third Symphony and Grand Duo (Davies and Tecco); also Harrison played in gamelan concert with Gamelan Si Betty (Trish Neilsen, cond.) For the Pleasure of Ovids Chances, Gendinq in Honor of Aphrodite (new version), and Gendinq Dennis.
• August 4: Interviewed along with William Colviq by Studs Terkel for his radio show of August 7.
• September 14-17: At University of Miami, Festival Miami residency. Performed: Suite for Cello and Harp and Concerto for Violin and Percussion
• September 14-17: At the University of Miami, Festival Miami residency. Performed: Suite of Cello and Harp and Concerto for Violin and Percussion
• November 6-12: University of Alaska, Fairbanks lectures, concert, radio. Gamelan Degung brought; perhaps the first ever gamelan performance in Alaska.
• November 16: Lectures at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
• November 18: "La Koro Sutro" performed at Nipomo.

1990

• January 13: Premiere of "Soediatmoko Set", commissioned by Peter Poole of Edmonton, Alberta, for the Soedjatmoko family in Jakarta. Louis and Clarke University, Portland, Ore.
• March 1: Lecture at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
• March 16-17: Composer judging, Colorado Arts Commission, Denver.
• April 3: Premiere "Trio", Miracourt Trio comm., Da Camera Soc., Houston
• May 12: Guest at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright center at Scottsdale, Arizona. "Ariadnel'" performed by Eva Soltes.
• July 29: "Third Symphony" final piece of Cabrillo Music Festival.
• August 6-10: Mills College, Oakland, gamelan workshop.
• November 2: Premiere, "Last Symphony" (#4), Brooklyn Philharmonic. (Also performances on the 3rd and 4th.)
• November8: Grand Duo recorded at SUNY Purchase, New York
• November10: Lecture, School of Architecture, Notre Dame University.
• November 22-December 7: Lectures and concerts in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nagoya

1991

• January 23-27: Lectures and concerts at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• February 1: Attend Trio performance at Los Angeles County Museum.
• April 22-24: Lectures and concerts at University of Arizona, Tuscon.
• April26-28: Again a guest at Taliesin West. Gamelan demonstration.
• June 10: "Lifetime Achievement Award" bestowed by San Francisco Bay Guardian.
• July 27: Panel, Cabrillo Music Festival.
• August 10-11: Record gamelan at San Jose State Univ. for two CDs, MusicMasters.
• August 21-December: Teach World Music class. Cabrillo College, Aptos.
• September 4: Opening of new studios of radio station KPFA in Berkeley with commission "Homage to Pacifica".
• September6: Featured at Bowling Green University, Ohio. Panel and talks. gamelan music, including a premiere.
• October 13: LH work performed at New Music Works concert, Santa Cruz.
• November 15: Lecture at San-Francisco Conservatory.
• November 20-21: Percussive Arts Society at Disneyland Hotel--all Harrison percussion concert including gamelan.
• November 12: Attended "Seven Pastorales" recording for MusicMaster label at White Plains, NY.

1992

• January 16: PBS TV crew at residence.
• January 21-27: Cornish College in Seattle. Lou Harrison-John Cage birthday celebration. Three concerts with Cage. Talks and public appearances.
• January 29-30: Attend Atlanta Symphony with Ursula Oppens playing "Piano Concerto".
• February 12-13: State Arts Commission of Arizona, Phoenix. Composition judglng.
• February 23: New Music Works--LH Birthday concert, Aptos.
• February 29: Camellia Symphony, Sacramento. LH composition played.
• February 23-28: Portland, Ore. birthday concerts.
• March 30: California Institute of the Arts concert and panel at Japan Center, Los Angeles. LH played.
• April l: Lecture, Porter College, UC Santa Cruz.
• April 5: Concert, UCSC, LH music.
• April 6: Percussion concert for LH birthday at San Jose State Univ.
• April 17: Attend Amargosa Opera at Death Valley Junction.
• April 22: Read poetry with Jack and Adele Foley at SF State Univ.
• April 24-26: Birthday honors at SF State U. Films and concert.
• May 10-16: Portland, Ore. birthday concerts--Virtuosi Della Rosa, soloists, Portland Gay Mens Chorus. "Lou Harrison Festival" at Louis and Clarke College. Concerts at Portland Art Museum and Renaissance Theater.
• May 30: Oakland, La Koro Sutro'7 Oakland Symphony Chorus.
• June 7: With William Colvig, Grand Marshal in Santa Cruz Gay Pride parade.
• June 9: Portland, Ore. Record 'Mass" for Koch International Classics label. Oregon Repertory Singers.
• July 17: "Music of the Spheres" gamelan concert at Lick Observatory. Premiere, Sending in Honor of Max Beckmann".
• July 24: Radio interview, KKUP, Mountain View
• July 26: Radio interview, VPRO Dutch radio.
• August 6-September 12; Art-exhibit from Colvig-Harrison collection, Santa Cruz Octagon art gallery.
• September 8: Cabrillo Music Festival--"Fourth Symphony", revised.
• September 9: Cabrillo Music Festival "Songs In the Forest" at San Juan Batista.
• September 15: Cabrillo Music Festival .--LH orch. version of Cage "Suite for Toy Piano".
• September 24: Resume teaching at Cabrillo College. -- Book of Lou Harrison poetry, "Joys and Perplexities, in LH font, published. A project of Jargon Society, UCSC Special Collections, and Cabrillo Music Festival.
• October 18: Lou reads poetry at Different Light bookstore, San Francisco.
• November 9: With William Colvig on "Closet-free Radio" show, KZSC Santa Cruz.
• November 20: Poetry reading, McHenry Library, UCSC, with Jack and Adele Foley. All-Harrison birthday concert, UCSC.
• November 21-22: Recording for Music Masters label at UCSC.
• November 21: Narrated with Wm. Colvig in LH "Suite from the Marriage At the Eiffel Tower"with Santa Cruz County Symphony.
• December 23: "Tandy's Tango", written for Tandy Beal , played at Pickle Family Circus. During 1992 and continuing: a Lou Harrison documentary, "Cherish, Conserve, Consider, Create" film by Eric Marin shown on public television.

1993

• January -- An all-Canada, two-hour broadcast, all Lou Harrison,
• January 4: Radio interviewith theCanadian Broadcasting Corp. "Two New Hours"
• January 14: "Set for Four Haisho with Two Percusionists" commissioned by National Theater of Japan, premiered in Tokyo. (panpipes).
• January 25: Begin teaching gamelan class for Cabrillo College.
• February 6: Took part in Yale's Oral History Project, with Vivian Perlis at Music Library Assn. conference at St. Francis Hotel, S.F. LH gamelan piece played at banquet.
• February 13: Keynote speaker at Sonneck Society conference as Asilomar. Honorary membership bestowed.
• February 27-28:"Third Symphony" performed by California Symphony in Concord.
• April 4: "Suite for Cello and Harp" at New Music Works, Santa Cruz.
• April 12: "Songs in the Forest", San Francisco Contermprary Music Players
• April 14: "Piano Concerto"--UC Santa Cruz.
• April 15: Poetry reading at San Jose State University
• May 1: Reno, Nev. Speech at meeting of ??
• May 5: Interview by Radio Nederlands.
• May 14: Concert at San Jose State U.--Cabrillo gamelan class.
• May 18: Poetry show, radio KUSP Santa Cruz.
• May 26: UCSC dance concert--Remy Charlip--"Suite for Cello and Harp'
• May 27: Cabrillo College gamelan concert, Aptos.
• May 28: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree bestowed, Sacramento State University.
• June 1: Record at KUSP for NPR poetry program.
• June 9: Interview by French radio at Canterbury, U.K.
• June 12-15: Visit Jonathon Williams, poet,
• July 6: Lectures at European Mozart Fdn., Dobris castle, Prague, Czech Republic.
• July 10-31: Sapporo, Japan--Pacific Music Festival, Michael Tilson Thomas cond.
• July 17: "Concerto for Violin With American Gamelan" arr. by Kerry Lewis and Michael Tilson-Thomas at civic aud.
• July 18: Repeat program at Art Park.
• July 20: "Set for Four Haisho with Two Percussionists" at Gallery Bumpodo, Tokyo.
• July 21-22: Gamelan Degung at Bumpodo--"Threnody for Carlos Chavez" and "Main Bersama-Sama".
• July 29: Sapporo--"Vn. W/Am. Gam." and "La Koro Sutro".
• August 8: Cabrillo Music Festival--"Second String Suite".
• August 12: Phone interview, BBC, AM. TV documentary crew, PM.
• September 16: Planning meeting at Fort Ord for future CSU-Monterey Bay.
• October 17: Portland, Oregon--Book and record signing.
• October 21- 23: Aurora, NY--Hammer Symposium.
• October 24: Lebanon, NH--visit Frog Peak Music.
• October 28-29: Toronto--Interviewed on CBC, Gam. Degung conc., LH pcs.
• October 30-31: Buffalo--Concerts at BSU and Albright Gallery--LH pcs.
• November 9: Interview taped for NPR at KUSP
• November 15-19: Lectures and concerts at Univ. of Utah; Salt Lake and Logan.
• November 26: Pickle Family Circus, Santa Cruz--"Tandy's Tanyo".
• November 21: Visit from Mark Morris.