Essential Cowell

Selected Writings on Music, 1921-1964

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by Henry Cowell,

Edited by Dick Higgins,

Preface by Kyle Gann

McPherson & Co

Due/Published February 2003, 342 pages, cloth

ISBN 0929701631

Henry Cowell (1887-1965) was a leading composer, critic and educator who worked largely in the experimental vein of American music. He was born in California and attended Stanford University. Throughout the 1950s he lived in New York City and upstate New York, and taught at the New School. Through his journal (New Music Quarterly), his concert promotions, and his WBAI-New York radio programs, he is credited with having ÒrediscoveredÓ Charles Ives, published Carl Ruggles, and effectively promoted Edgard Varese. Aside from his famous book, New Musical Resources, however, Henry CowellÕs many essays, reviews, manifestos, and other writings have never before been gathered and published in book form.