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Release Date:01/01/1993
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  • All Music Guide

    This is a collection of Cowell's more conservative but still original later works that reflect a fascination with "world music" and re-defining traditional harmony and counterpoint. Performed beautifully by The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Richard Aulden Clark, this CD contains: "Persian Set", "Old American Country Set", "American Melting Pot", "Hymn and Fuguing Tune", "Air" and "Adagio" from "Ensemble".

    - "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music Guide

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Henry Cowell

Of all the early-20th-century American musical revolutionaries, it is composer Henry Cowell whose influence was most vivid and far-reaching. Born in 1897, Cowell studied the violin briefly at age five, and began to write his own music by his eleventh birthday. Until he began musical studies with Charles Seeger at the University of California at Berkeley in 1914 Cowell r... Read more