Knowledge Commons | Christine Fena | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/csfena/activity/ Activity feed for Christine Fena. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:07:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 02ece31c911a0d706afdb654c65d7acc Christine Fena deposited The “piano technician” and his “unfortunate piano:” Henry Cowell in the machine age https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789897/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:37:01 -0400 Despite Cowell’s rural upbringing and connection with California’s central coast, critics of
the 1920s were quick to associate the composer-pianist’s “tone cluster” and “string piano”
techniques with the noise, monotony, and “unfeeling” technologies of the “machine age” and
American metropolis. By positioning the reception of Cowell’s early pia…[Read more]

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