ABSTRACT
William Winant, who was given the instruments through Harrison's will and presides over the collection, was my gracious host during my visit. WILLIAM WINANT: the author started studying drums and percussion seriously during his last two years of high school, as a junior. He guess his first real professional experience early on probably came in two ways: first, playing in the streets with The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, they did a lot of street theatre back then. ANDERSON: So he presumes that all of what we have talked about so far comes before your time in Northern California, at Mills College, and their work with Lou Harrison. He had devoted himself to the music of Jelly Roll Morton and New Orleans music, so he gave up the composer side of his work back in the 1940s. But there was one piece, we might have played Chicago Sketches as is, but he did revise a piece called March.
