Word: roughhewn
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...occasionally groaning, occasionally sighing, never quite reaching a definite conclusion. Composer Harris had chosen the tune because it was what his father had whistled in the mornings when he went striding out to his farmlands, in the evenings when he plodded wearily home. Intent was to keep the music "roughhewn, sinewy and directly outspoken." In his dry, blunt speech. Composer Harris makes much of his background, of the fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma log cabin which his father hewed by hand, of his own early years spent farming in California's San Gabriel...