In celebration of composer Lou Harrison’s 2017 centennial, The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Harrison’s Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan, featuring pianist Sarah Cahill and Gamelan Galak Tika under the direction of Evan Ziporyn. One of the most original composers America has ever produced, Harrison successfully integrated traditional musics of Asia into classical music of the West. Having developed a deep knowledge of and reverence for various traditions over his 80 years, Harrison created an enormous body of music that synthesizes the East and West in structure, harmony, and instrumentation. This performance of the Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan features one of the composer’s own gamelans on loan from Harvard University.