| Composer(s): |
Henry Cowell, Charles Dodge, David Mahler, Larry Polansky, Ruth Crawford, Stefan Wolpe, George Antheil, Johanna Beyer |
| Cat. No.: |
80641 |
| Genre: |
Classical |
| Description: |
Miwako Abe, violin
Michael Kieran Harvey, piano
Henry Cowell (1897–1965), in the introduction to the first edition of his prophetic "symposium" titled American Composers on American Music (1933), described features of contemporary American music and outlined categories of composers. The first group he introduced - "Americans who have developed indigenous materials or are specially interested in expressing some phase of the American spirit in their works" - might be taken as a historical framework for the composers represented on this recording. The tradition that C... more |
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