May 14 - Lou Harrison (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Lou Harrison (14 May 917 – 2 February 2003) was an American composer with a strong interest in alternative tunings and unusual instruments.
[For last year's verse on Otto Klemperer click here.]

Outliers

"Like Charles Ives, Harrison completed four symphonies." - Wikipedia

It’s not a fair comparison,

This pairing of Lou Harrison

                With Ives.

For though both have their partisans

Just one of these two artisans

                 Still thrives.

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