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Lou Harrison
When Lou Harrison was commissioned to write a new vocal work for the Pacifica Foundation in 1991, America had just finished up the Gulf War. Drawing on the "political" music he had composed during the sixties (in reaction to another war, of course), Harrison combined anti-imperialist texts by Mark Twain with Chief Seattle's famous "environmental" speech from 1854—illustrating them with an eclectic ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments.
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