Webcast of Joshua Pierce Playing Michael Harrison's Revelation: Music
for the Harmonically Tuned Piano Available at NewMusicBox Web magazine

NewMusicBox has announced their latest webcast featuring the
world premiere performance of Michael Harrison's new extended score
of Revelation for harmonically tuned piano, performed by Joshua
Pierce.  You can see and listen to the performance at

   http://www.newmusicbox.org/webcasts/revelation/index.nmbx

Grammy nominated pianist Joshua Pierce has performed in prestigious
music centers throughout the world as a soloist and with an extraordinary
array of orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonia,
Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Moscow State Philharmonic, Berlin Radio
Symphony Orchestra, and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra.  He has
recorded nearly 200 works including numerous world premieres as a soloist
and with orchestra for EMI Classics, Carlton Classics, Helicon, Koch
International Classics, MMC, Phoenix, Pro Arts, Sony Classics, Vox and
other labels.  His landmark series of recordings of John Cage's music
on the Wergo label has earned him tremendous acclaim worldwide.  His
25-year collaboration with the pianist Dorothy Jonas, as part of the
two-piano team, Pierce & Jonas, has resulted in numerous acclaimed
recordings and performances, including a command performance with the
Royal Philharmonic for England's Royal Family.  For more information,
visit http://www.jamesarts.com/pierce/index2.html

Composed for a new "non-tempered" microtonal tuning that Michael
Harrison invented, this 90-minute magnum opus is a modern approach
to the ancient principles of pure intonation and harmonic resonance.
Revelation introduces never-before-heard combinations of modes, harmonies,
and acoustical phenomenon that have been praised in The New York Times
as "a new harmonic world...  generating huge golden balls of vibrant
sound," and in Stuart Isacoff's new book Temperament as "he seemed to
free an angelic choir above." This performance marks the first time that
Revelation has been performed by a pianist other than the composer.  You
can read the composers program notes at

   http://www.newmusicbox.org/webcasts/revelation/notes.nmbx

Composer and pianist Michael Harrison is one of the world's leading
composers working with just intonation and rational number based
tuning systems as applied to the piano. His work has been hailed as "an
indisputable landmark in Western tuning's circuitous history" (Kyle Gann,
The Village Voice).  In 1986, he created the "harmonic piano" with the
ability to play up to 24 notes per octave.  As a disciple of La Monte
Young, Harrison prepared all of the specialized tunings for Young's 6-"
hour historical work, The Well-Tuned Piano, and became the only other
person to perform the work.  In 1999 Harrison performed his own epic
composition, From Ancient Worlds (New Albion Records), in Rome at the
"Festival 4 Pianoforti." A celebration of America's visionary
composer/pianists, the festival featured full-length solo performances
by Harrison, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Charlemagne Palestine.
Revelation received its world premiere in 2001 at Germany's prestigious
Klavier Festival Ruhr.  In October of the same year the work was premiered
in the U.S.  at Composers Collaborative's Solo Flights festival at Lincoln
Center.  For more information visit http://www.michaelharrison.com/

For more information about these artists, please contact Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask]

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