Classical guitar can sound drearily monochromatic. In Lou Harrison's Harp Suite (via an Art of the States Real stream, page here), the addition of percussion gives the music character and even emphasizes the guitar-only movements. Of course, you can't go wrong with the ever talented David Tanenbaum and William Winant.
David Tannenbaum also performed the work's last movement A Waltz for Evelyn Henrichsen at the 2002 Other Minds Festival (stream via the Internet Archive) and in 1995 at the same venue.
Don Gillespie of publisher C.F. Peters writes of Lou Harrison (via NewMusicBox).
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