His best known pieces with tone clusters include The Aeolian Harp and Three Irish Legends, the latter of which contains The Tides of Manaunaun.
Leopold Stokowski took four pieces this composer wrote for John O. Varian's play The Building of Bamba and orchestrated them as Tales from Our Countryside. For a while, this composer mostly wrote Eastern-inspired music: Iranian influence shows in his Persian Set and Homage to Persia, while Japanese shows in The Eternal Flute for solo shakuhachi, a harmonica concerto for John Sebastian, and Ongaku. His work got less edgy after he served a prison sentence for consensual oral sex with a 17 year old boy - earlier, he pioneered the technique of (*) "string piano" in which one literally plucks the piano strings, as well as "primitive tonal clusters" in works like Dynamic Motion. His best known pieces with tone clusters include The Aeolian Harp and Three Irish Legends, the latter of which contains The Tides of Manaunaun. For 10 points, name this avant-garde American composer and teacher of John Cage.
Leopold Stokowski took four pieces this composer wrote for John O. Varian's play The Building of Bamba and orchestrated them as Tales from Our Countryside.
Henry Cowell