(Catalogue no. 14125)
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| Title: |
Enclosure Two |
| Artist: |
Harry Partch |
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Label: |
Innova |
| Format: |
4 X CD |
| Price: |
€ 39.20 |
Mp3 samples: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Title Description:
"This 4-CD collection of archival Partch recordings includes works from the 1930's and '40's, a Partch lecture on just intonation, interviews with Partch and his comments on a variety of topics, a newly recorded performance of excerpts from his 1935 hobo journal Bitter Music , and a sound documentary featuring Partch at the piano and reminiscences by his friends. contents: (all tracks feature Harry Partch speaking or performing unless otherwise noted) I am Harry Partch (r. 1950-51) By the Rivers of Babylon (137th Psalm) (1943 revised version; r. 1945) Texts and Music : A Wagnerian Wrestling Match (r.1954) Ten Li Po Lyrics (1930-33; r. 1947) The Use of English in Serious Music (r. 1970) Barstow (Eight Hitch-hiker's Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California) (1943; r. 1945) San Francisco (A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Street Corner on a Foggy Night in the Twenties) (1943; r. 1945) Life is too precious to spend it with important people (r. 1970) U.S. Highball : A Musical Account of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo trip (1943; r. 1946) While my Heart Keeps Beating Time (1929; r. 1995) - Philip Blackburn, voice; Liz Schmidt, piano San Francisco II (1943; r. 1955) - Illinois Performers' Workshop Ensemble I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds (r. 1966) Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1944; r. 1945) Dark Brother: Final Two Paragraphs from Thomas Wolfe's 'God's Lonely Man' (1942-43; r. 1945) A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations (r. 1967) Extracts from Bitter Music (1935-36; r. 1992) - Warren Burt, voice; Sheila Guymer, piano Yankee Doodle Birds (r. 1970) Y.D. Fantasy: On the Works of an Early American Tune (1944; r. 1945) O Frabjous Day! (1954; r. 1954) You are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not drunk? (r. 1953) Ring Around the Moon : A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now (1949-40; revised version 1953: r. 1953) Bless This House (1961; r. 1961) Harry's Wake : audio bio-drama featuring Partch at the piano (r. 1966) and comments from friends at a memorial meeting (r. 1974)"
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