◇ image via WikipediaHenry Cowell
Henry Cowell is a Classical act. Their sound grew out of Béla Bartók and Alban Berg. Those roots explain a lot about how Henry Cowell arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Witold Lutosławski and Brian Ferneyhough, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nicolas Slonimsky, Folkways Records, Pete Seeger, Yoko Ono and Burt Bacharach, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Henry Cowell, reaching back through Béla Bartók and forward to Nicolas Slonimsky. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Henry Cowell connections
Henry Cowell grew out of Béla Bartók and Alban Berg, shares an orbit with Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Witold Lutosławski and Brian Ferneyhough, went on to shape Nicolas Slonimsky, Folkways Records, Pete Seeger and Yoko Ono. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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