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Renaissance Man: a Portrait of Lukas Foss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Raymond Yiu
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His name may not be familiar to some readers, but since the première of his first major work The Prairie in 1944 Lukas Foss has remained one of the most distinctive voices in American contemporary music. He is a unique kind of musician, equally renowned as composer, conductor, pianist, educator, and spokesman for his art.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 221 , July 2002 , pp. 15 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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References

1 Liner notes to Epic lc 3886, 1964.

2 Liner notes to Nonesuch recording H-71202 (LP), NS-1202 (cassette).

3 Strini, Tom, ‘Foss: Reshaping the Renaissance’, Milwaukee Journal 16 11 1986 Google Scholar: 9E.

4 Henri Dutilleux, note on his Violin Concerto L'arbre des songes, translated for Chandos CHAN 9504.

5 Programme note to performance of the work given by the American Composers Orchestra, 18 March 2001.

6 Ibid.

7 Programme note, world première by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

8 Interview with the present writer, New York, summer 2001.

9 Johnston, James, ‘Lukas Foss–What only music can express’, Bostonia, Spring 1994, Number 1 Google Scholar.