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Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 - December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:

“Henry Cowell’s music covers a wider range in both expression and technique than that of any other living composer. His experiments begun three decades ago in rhythm, in harmony, and in instrumental sonorities were considered then by many to be wild. Today they are the Bible of the young and still, to the conservatives, “advanced. “… No other composer of our time has produced a body of works so radical and so normal, so penetrating and so comprehensive. Add to this massive production his long and influential career as a pedagogue, and Henry Cowell’s achievement becomes impressive indeed. There is no other quite like it. To be both fecund and right is given to few.”
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  • caldoriaheights

    he spent four years in San Quentin for homosexual activities. huge influence on Lou Harrison.

    March 2012

  • mahleria

    15 years in San Quentin on a "morals" charge really broke him. Broke his heart too, when Charlie Ives regarded him coolly the rest of his life.

    September 2011

  • Jack_fe

    The whole argument doesn't work. The word 'classical' and 'composer' aren't synonymous with 'good' anyway, so what do you care?

    November 2010

  • barryvs

    Jesus Christ, civility and decency really take a beating in this shoutbox.

    October 2010

  • insomniacme

    it's still quite poor really ..

    June 2010

  • Aeroaviones

    "Brown people music" doesn't need and has never needed to be taken seriously by Western culture. That you think so just reveals how "white people" still think like they did back in the nineteenth century; just a bunch of colonialist assholes. Cowell's great, and we just need to be a little more contextually forgiving, so to speak. We can be so with him, but you, you're completely out of sync and are a retrograde.

    January 2010

  • The_Red_Agent

    I found about about both Henry Cow and Henry Cowell separately. One day I was just like, "Oh, that's neat"

    December 2009

  • SixShooterSam

    yes.

    November 2009
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