CELEBRATING LOU AT 101
The happiest composer I ever met was the prolific Lou Harrison, whose centennial celebrations, like his large output of music, couldn’t all be squeezed into 2017. The Harrison joy persisted up to Jan. 24 with a small-ensemble concert of amazing variety at the inviting and sold-out Strand Theatre. In the end, doing even an intimate all-Harrison concert comes down to finding exotica like “junk-yard” instruments, gamelans and even genuine Studebaker brake drums to provide the ever broader sonic array needed…