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William (Bill) Colvig (March 13, 1917 – March 1, 2000) was an electrician and amateur musician who was the partner for 33 years of composer Lou Harrison, whom he met in San Francisco in 1967.
15 de mar. de 2000 · William Colvig, an instrument builder who collaborated with the composer Lou Harrison on gamelans and other percussion instruments and who was Mr. Harrison's companion for 33 years, died on...
Lou Harrison and William Colvig, who met in 1967 in San Francisco, built a set of tuned percussion instruments that they called "an American gamelan" in order to differentiate it from Indonesian ensembles.
In 1966, he met William Colvig, who became his life partner and, as an incomparable instrument builder, essential collaborator. For the next 33 years, Harrison and Colvig went gangbusters.
Harrison also became an expert in the Indonesian gamelan and, in 1977, built two Javanese gamelans with William Colvig. He was a Fulbright senior scholar in New Zealand in 1983, subsequently becoming involved in recordings and international performances of his works.
9 de dic. de 2013 · In 1967, Harrison met William Colvig, an electrician and amateur musician with an interest in acoustics. Together, they constructed their own gamelan from bits and pieces of aluminum and steel retrieved from discarded gas tanks and furniture tubing found in scrap metal heaps.
instruments with his partner, William Colvig. Harrison's extraordinary devotion to the gamelan, which he calls "the most beautiful musical ensemble on the planet,"8 has placed his work at the forefront of the American gamelan movement, and no discussion of the ensemble's history in the United States is complete without consideration of his ...
