Item 7.176 - Ballet 5/13 for orchestra and tape : electronic sequences

Lowell Cross attended the University of Toronto from 1964-1968 as a graduate student in electronic music and musicology. His Bibliography of Electronic Music (University of Toronto Press) and his Toronto thesis, “Electronic Music, 1948-1953” were published during this period. He worked with the late Harry Somers on the 4 channel tape segments for the opera Louis Riel. Lowell later developed laser projection systems culminating in his invention of the “laser light show”. His installation at Expo ’70 , Osaka, Japan was the first major public laser-art projection system, which was seen by over 2,000,000 visitors. He later was Professor of Music and Director of Recording Studios at the University of Iowa.

Harry Freedman taught musical theory and composition at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (1989-1992) and was the Jean Chalmers Professor and director of the Institute for Canadian Music (1990-1992).