Concerto in Slendro

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Harrison wrote this work while traveling aboard a freighter to Japan in 1961. In Indonesian music, "sléndro" refers to a five-note scale without half steps. Harrison called this scale the "prime pentatonic," characterizing it as "every human's most important tonal heritage."

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