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Henry Cowell – Living in the Whole World of Music

Posted on the November 12th, 2009 under Cowell,Musical education

Born in Menlo Park, Calif., in 1897, Cowell toured the world in the 1920s as a pianist, winning amazed reviews and publicity when he, for example, smashed rows of adjacent piano keys with a forearm or played directly on the piano strings and sound board. Such techniques added musical color and ::More