Harry Partch Podcasts
American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Harry Partch)
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Partch wrote his dance satire The Bewitched to explore how civilization can move forward by rediscovering our ancient past. It showcases the composer’s pioneering writing for the female voice, unfolding across ten scenes based on everyday American life plus a prologue and epilogue. The witch appears in each of the scenes, using her magic to provide help and context to each real-life situation. This recording is a remastering of the original mono master tapes from The Harry Partch Collection Volume 4 The Bewitched – A Dance Satire (1955).The Anthology of Recorded Music commissioned composer Taylor Brook to write Block in 2022 to accompany this re-release of the CRI recording of Harry Partch’s The Bewitched.Purchase the music (without talk) at:The Bewitched (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html [email protected] album is broadcasted with the permission of Katy Salomon representing Primo Artists.
2019-09-12 16:53:25
Duration (h:m:s): 35:58
Guitarist John Schneider is clearly obsessed. In the best, passionate-music-geek kind of way. And the thing is that the object of his obsession - Harry Partch and his work - just engenders that kind of response in people. It probably comes from the fact that Partch himself who was monomaniacally focused: he was so absorbed with the idea that music should be more than just the traditional twelve notes that he invented new musical notation, new notes, new instruments to play said notes, and new music for those instruments. In this episode, John Schneider of the Grammy award-winning Partch Ensemble teaches all about the adventurous life and obsessions of Harry Partch, and talks about the Partch Ensemble's latest release, Sonata Dementia. Music in this episode:
Ground breakers, virtuosos, and commissioners of many of the world’s twentieth and twenty-first century string quartet masterpieces, the influence of the Kronos Quartet cannot be underestimated. We’ll feature a sampling of their luminous output over the years. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters PLAYLIST Alan Dorsey: Whatever Happened to the Hoodoo Meat Bucket? Kronos Quartet John Geist: Dark Razz Kronos Quartet Aleksandra Vrebalov: …hold me, neighbor, in this storm (excerpt) Kronos Quartet Harry Partch: U.S. Highball, “Did I ever ride freight trains- huh!” & “Leaving Little America, Wyo-ma” Kronos Quartet; David Barron, narrator Pēteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4, II, Elegy Kronos Quartet John Zorn: Forbidden Fruit (excerpt) Kronos Quartet Steve Reich: Triple Quartet, II Kronos Quartet Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky: Lachrimosa Kronos Quartet; Dawn Upshaw, ms. Television: Marquee Moon (excerpt) Kronos Quartet
Ground breakers, virtuosos, and commissioners of many of the world’s twentieth and twenty-first century string quartet masterpieces, the influence of the Kronos Quartet cannot be underestimated. We’ll feature a sampling of their luminous output over the years. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters PLAYLIST Alan Dorsey: Whatever Happened to the Hoodoo Meat Bucket? Kronos Quartet John Geist: Dark Razz Kronos Quartet Aleksandra Vrebalov: …hold me, neighbor, in this storm (excerpt) Kronos Quartet Harry Partch: U.S. Highball, “Did I ever ride freight trains- huh!” & “Leaving Little America, Wyo-ma” Kronos Quartet; David Barron, narrator Pēteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4, II, Elegy Kronos Quartet John Zorn: Forbidden Fruit (excerpt) Kronos Quartet Steve Reich: Triple Quartet, II Kronos Quartet Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky: Lachrimosa Kronos Quartet; Dawn Upshaw, ms. Television: Marquee Moon (excerpt) Kronos Quartet
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