Seattle Times:
On a winter’s night in early 1992, the careers of John Cage and Lou Harrison, two composers with strong Seattle connections, were celebrated at Cornish College of the Arts. After some stellar performances of their work — including a lively rendering of a percussion piece they wrote together in 1941 — the pair came onstage to take their bows. That marked their last public appearance together in Seattle — the city where they’d made pivotal contributions to the Western percussion tradition half a century earlier. anyone wanting insight into what they accomplished here and elsewhere will have their chance starting Thursday with “Drums along the Pacific,” a four-day festival at Cornish celebrating the work of Cage, Harrison and their mentor Henry Cowell.