By the Rivers of Babylon, for adapted viola & intoning voice, kithara & chromelodeon
Recorded Interviews & Speeches: Text and music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match (spoken)
Lyrics (17) by Li Po, for intoning voice & adapted viola
Harry Partch: Interview with Eugene Paul (Interview): The Use of English in Serious Music (excerpt from an interview with Eugene Paul)
Barstow (from "The Wayward"), for two voices, surrogate kithara, chromelodeon, diamond marimba & boo
San Francisco, for two baritones, adapted viola, kithara & chromelodeon (from "The Wayward"): A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Street Corner on a Foggy Night in the Twenties.
Recorded Interviews & Speeches: Life is too precious to spend it with important people
U.S. Highball, for voices & Partch instruments (from "The Wayward")
Recorded Interviews & Speeches: While my Heart Keeps Beating Time
Recorded Interviews & Speeches: San Francisco II
Recorded Interviews & Speeches: I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds...
Settings (2) from Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake", for soprano, kithara & two flutes
Dark Brother, for intoning voice, chromelodeon, adapted viola, kithara & bass marimba: Dark Brother - Final Two Paragraphs from Thomas Wolfe's "God's Lonely Man"
Recorded Interviews & Speeches
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: June 12 - Federal Shelter, Stockton
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: June 13
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: June 14
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: June 16 - Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: June 17
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 04
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 14
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 16
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 19
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 20 - Heading north, between Sacramento and Redding (later incorporated into "The Wind", 1950)
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 24 - Federal Shelter, Portland
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 27
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 29
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: July 30
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: August 7 - Between Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, Oregon
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: August 15
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: October 22 - Nearing Monterey
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: October 24 - Leaving Big Sur
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: October 25 - Near Slate's Hot Springs (now the Esalen Institute)
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: October 26
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: October 27
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: October 28
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: October 29
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: October 30 - Big Creek
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: November 12 - Santa Barbara
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: November 14
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: November 16 - Ojai
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: November 17
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: November 23 - Los Angeles
Bitter Music, musical excerpts from Partch's diary: November 28
Enclosure 2 is a four-CD set from Innova, the label of the Minnesota Composers' Forum. The set gathers some of the rarest recordings of compositions by Harry Partch, plus a few introductory remarks and a 46-minute group of reminiscences from Partch's wake, made by his closest friends and co-workers, interspersed with some further remarks on a tape made of Partch.There are several larger works on this album: ten of the Li Po Lyrics, Barstow, U.S. Highball, Dark Brother, Quarter-Saw Section, and Ring Around the Moon. Every ...
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Enclosure 2 is a four-CD set from Innova, the label of the Minnesota Composers' Forum. The set gathers some of the rarest recordings of compositions by Harry Partch, plus a few introductory remarks and a 46-minute group of reminiscences from Partch's wake, made by his closest friends and co-workers, interspersed with some further remarks on a tape made of Partch.There are several larger works on this album: ten of the Li Po Lyrics, Barstow, U.S. Highball, Dark Brother, Quarter-Saw Section, and Ring Around the Moon. Every one of these entries is a different recording -- often of a different revision -- from the same work's release on Partch's Gate Five label.Most of the short pieces in the set (By the Rivers of Babylon, San Francisco, While my Heart Keeps Beating Time, San Francisco II, Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake , Y.D. Fantasy, O Frabjous Day!, And Bless This House) are presented in the acetate recordings made by Warren Gilson in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1945. They are noisy, and...
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