Lou Harrison @ 100
Video 1
About the Work
To celebrate Lou Harrison's centennial in 2017, MAFISHCO defies gravity with the help of a jahla composed in 1989 by Lou. Lou was an avid dancer and composer for dance. Margaret Fisher, director of MAFISHCO, was Lou's music copyist from 1986. Here, as below, Fisher adopts Lou's occasional strategy of drawing on earlier work to create new work.
Credits
- Performers: Margaret Fisher, Stassa Morgan-Shank
- Music: Jahla by Lou Harrison (from Pedal Sonata, 1989)
- Music arranged for harpsichord and performed by: Linda Burman-Hall
- Produced by: Second Evening Art and MAFISHCO
- Written, Directed, Edited by: Margaret Fisher
- Genres: Music Video. Dance Video. Experimental Video.
- Release date: 2017. TRT: 1.5 minutes.
- Screened: Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland CA.
- Published: Open Space Web Magazine
Video 2
About the Work
In Jahla, Part 2, Fisher extends her 1994 performance work "To be seen in and out of the light, even . . ." (a collaboration with Charles Shere) to include a 1972 jahla by Harrison.
Credits
- Performers: Elvyn Blair, Margaret Fisher, Robert Hughes, Claudia Naganuma, Bob Saito, Brenda Stine, Toyoji Tomita
- Music: Jahla by Lou Harrison (Jahla in the form of a Ductia to please Leopold Stokowski
on his 90th Birthday, 1972) - Music arranged by: David Tanenbaum
- Music performed by: David Tanenbaum, guitar / William Winant, percussion
- Costumes: Cynthia DuVal
- Set Design: Jerry Carniglia, Mara Lena Corter, Chris McFee
- Produced by: Second Evening Art and MAFISHCO
- Written, Directed, Edited by: Margaret Fisher
- Genres: Music Video. Dance Video. Experimental Video.
- Release date: 2017. TRT: 2.0 minutes.
- Screened: Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland CA.
- Published: Open Space Web Magazine