Anne LeBaron
Anne LeBaron (born 1953 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American composer and harpist. She studied at the University of Alabama, Stony Brook University and Columbia University (doctorate, 1989), with teachers including Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky. As an improvising harpist she has developed extended techniques such as prepared and bowed harp. Her works include Concerto for Active Frogs (1974), the monodrama Pope Joan (2000) and the hyperopera Crescent City (2012). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and taught at CalArts until 2024.
Musicworks 84 (CD+magazine)
One of the best magazines of experimental music / sound art, founded by John Oswald and published since 1978. Includes feaurures, essays, interviews, reviews, etc., and comes with a CD with (often exclusive) music/sound in relation to the contents of…
Epiphany (2LP)
Original 1982 double-LP set with gatefold sleeve on Incus featuring improvisations by various combinations of a large group of who's who of the international free improvisation scene, including Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Akio Suzuki, Keith Tippett, Ge…
The Musical Railism Of Anne LeBaron
Portrait of harpist-composer Anne LeBaron: two solo pieces for prepared and electric harp, excerpts from her blues-opera The E&O Line to a libretto by Thulani Davis, and two chamber works, one conducted by Leon Fleisher.
Rana, Ritual And Revelations
Five first recordings of works by composer and harpist Anne LeBaron, 1975-1986, including Lamentation/Invocation, Rite of the Black Sun, Planxty Bowerbird, Noh Reflections and Concerto for Active Frogs, played by the New Music Consort and others.