{"id":1632,"date":"2003-12-15T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/lou-harrison-biography-there-exists\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:26:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:26:33","slug":"lou-harrison-biography-there-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/lou-harrison-biography-there-exists\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Lou Harrison biography<\/h3>\n<p>There exists a biography of Lou Harrison, which was written during his lifetime.  It makes him out to be something of a saint, but this is perfectly alright because everyone makes him out to be something of a saint, and with good reason.  the biography has an extremely good articles about his tuning systems and how he built gamelans and stuff.  when I did my presentation on <em>La Koro sutro<\/em>, I borrowed the biography because I knew it would contain information on the tuning system of the piece and indeed, it did, which I then used in my report.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at the beginning of the semester, i was assigned to read the biography and report back on it.  The teacher told us that when responding to an author&#8217;s viewpoint about a work, we should &#8220;take them on.&#8221;  So my report was about the weakest areas of the biography instead of the strongest areas.  apparently, I misunderstood what it meant to &#8220;take them on.&#8221;  but, despite being somewhat off-track, this was ok and I got to educate my fellow grad students on Esperanto.<br \/>\nThe teacher of the seminar just sent me email saying that he&#8217;d talked to Lou&#8217;s biographer about what I said about Esperanto and she wants my notes.<br \/>\npretty cool, if you ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Harrison biography There exists a biography of Lou Harrison, which was written during his lifetime. It makes him out to be something of a saint, but this is perfectly alright because everyone makes him out to be something of a saint, and with good reason. the biography has an extremely good articles about his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/lou-harrison-biography-there-exists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}