Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]> inquires:
>Terry Newstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Lou Harrison -- Concerto for Violin and Percussion
>
>Did the program notes describing this piece get translated into Esperanto?
>Harrison is a speaker of this artificial language; & the official title -
>don't have it with me; so i can't transcribe it - of the piece is written
>in Esperanto....
No. There were almost no printed program notes for any of the pieces.
(The same booklet served for over a dozen concerts in the four-week
series.) One of the performers (a percussionist, in this case) orally
introduced each piece at the concert I attended. In English. He had his
colleagues demonstrate the sounds of some of the "found" instruments --
flower pots, metal pipes, and washtubs.