Listening to the Hyperion CD of Robert Simpson's Second and Fourth Symphonies — culled from the wreckage of Tower — I noticed the legend "recorded with the generous assistance of The Rex Foundation, San Francisco." As new-music insiders know, this foundation, established by members of the Grateful Dead, has long been giving substantial grants to twentieth-century and new-music projects, mainly at the instigation of Phil Lesh, who studied with Luciano Berio at Mills College before joining the Warlocks, whence the Dead. I went to the Rex website and found that they recently donated $10,000 to the Lou Harrison Archive, whose website is well worth exploring.
