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Article Excerpt
Essential Cowell: Selected Writings on Music by Henry Cowell, 1921-1964. Edited by Dick Higgins. New York: McPherson, 2002. [345 p. ISBN 0-929701-63-1. $35.] Music examples, discography, index.
Henry Cowell: Selected Writings, compiled by Dick Higgins, gathers fifty-five diverse writings of American composer Henry Cowell into a single, compact volume, accompanied by a discography updated to the year 2001. Kyle Gann supplies a preface describing Cowell's enduring, relatively unheralded influence on North American composers since about 1933. A welcome complement to the rapidly growing body of Cowell scholarship, this collection includes nearly one-quarter of Cowell's total output--Bruce Saylor's bibliography The Writings of Henry Cowell (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, 1977) lists just fewer than 240 items. Editor Dick Higgins (1938-1998) studied composition with Cowell at Columbia University, was later a student of John Cage, and was among the original members of Fluxus, the avant-garde performance art movement that included La Monte Young. Yoko Ono, and others. Higgins acknowledges Cowell's influence on his own work and brings a composer s perspective to th e project.
In addition to being a prolific composer (as many as twelve hundred works, although scholars disagree on the precise number), Cowell also produced more than two hundred articles, speeches,...
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