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| MUSIC_PAST WORKS OTHER RECORDINGS RUMI: Lovedrunk CD (2004). A world music collaboration featuring Shahram Shiva’s translations and narratives of Rumi’s poetry. Music composed by Olivier Glissant and Harrison, and produced in collaboration with Shiva and Glissant Select Performances Love’s Glory: Mystical poems of Rumi & Hafiz (2000)(CD release pending). A collaboration with Gabrielle Young featuring translations and narratives of poems Persian poets Rumi & Hafiz with Harrison performing four original works for the harmonic piano tuned in pure intonation : Night Vigil, Rumi Suite, Dorian Dolphin Dance (harmonic piano solo), and Hafiz Suite (64 minutes). From Ancient Worlds. New Albion Records CD, 1992 (Harrison as pianist). Harrison’s first extended work composed for piano tuned in pure intonation (" From Ancient Worlds" just tuning). Recorded on his “harmonic piano,” an extensively modified grand piano with the ability to alternate between two different tunings to play 24 notes per octave on a conventional keyboard. This CD was recorded in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and was voted the “No. 2 Best Recording of the Year” on WNYC-FM’s New Sounds Listener’s Poll (62 minutes). Select Performances In Flight. Fortuna Records CD, 1986 (Harrison as pianist). Eight early piano works: In Flight, The Swan Has Flown to the Mountain Lake, Because of You, Echo of Time, The Joy of Life, Ocean Dance, Winter’s Dream, and Mira (40 minutes). The title track was used by Columbia Pictures in the movie trailers and television advertisements for the Academy Award winning movie Awakenings and also released on Windows: Windham Hill 25 Years of Piano (2001) , and the Windham Hill Records Piano Sampler (1984). The Crystal Flame (original 1980 recording out of print). Seven early works for piano, violin and string bass: Spanish Raga, Dance of Love, Mercury, Dance of the Sorcerers, The Universel, Scottish Dance, and The Pyramid. Michael Harrison, piano; Don Lax, violin; and Brian Crittenden, bass. EARLY ENSEMBLE & ORCHESTRAL WORKS: For My Father: Flute, violin, cello and piano, 1994 Song of the Rose: Cello and piano, 1993 Birds of Paradise: Jazz ensemble, 1990 1001 Nights: Jazz ensemble, 1990 Symphonic Cortege: Full orchestra, 1987-88 (approx. 15 minutes) [click to hear sample] Select Performances African Child: world music ensemble (also in solo piano version)(tuned in Harrison’s "Adjacent Syntonic Comma” just tuning), 1988 [click to hear sample] Tactus: Flugelhorn, Piano and percussion, (also in solo piano version), 1984-85 The Swan Has Flown to the Mountain Lake: Flute, harp and cello, 1984 Ecstatic poems of Rumi: Soprano and piano, 1983-84 For Oboe: Oboe, 1983 Reminiscent Dances: String Orchestra (also in solo piano version),1982 Choral Work No. 1: Five singers (SAATB), 1981 Choral Work No. 2: Five singers (SAATB), 1981 Crystal Kyrie: 2 sopranos, 13 crystal goblets in pure intonation (or bowed vibraphone), 1979 Zikr: SATB Choir with soprano soloist, 1979 Atlantis: Flute, clarinet, piano and tabla (optional), 1979 Call of the Beloved: Soprano, flute, harp and piano, 1979 Dance of the Sorcerers: Flute, cello, piano, tabla & tamboura (optional), 1977-78 Sonnet XVIII: Alto and piano, 1977 EARLY PIANO SOLOS: Blue Camel, versions for piano tuned in pure intonation ("From Ancient Worlds" just tuning), and equal temperament, 1998-99 Colorado, 1996, 1993 Vivace, 1993 1001 Nights, 1990 For My Father, 1990 The Skeletons Come Out to Play: Harmonic piano with muted strings and digital delay tuned in pure intonation ("From Ancient Worlds" just tuning), 1988 First Light, 1988 Lyric Cortege, 1987 The Swan Has Flown to the Mountain Lake: Versions for piano tuned in pure intonation ("From Ancient Worlds" just tuning), and equal temperament, 1986, 1981 Forgotten Time, 1986 Piano Study No.2, 1983 The Celestial Suite: Piano tuned in pure intonation ("From Ancient Worlds" just tuning, 1981 Piano Study No. 1, 1981 Conquistadora, 1978 Birth of a Stream, 1975 The Gift of Life, 1975 Schizoid, 1975 Queen Hatshepsut, 1974 |
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