Harry Partch
The Bewitched - A Dance Satire By Harry Partch (2LP)
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CRI's 1973 double LP re-issue with gatefold sleeve of Harry Partch alien sounding avant-garde major opus recorded in 1953 with a big ensemble also playing his self-invented istruments and previously released on Partch's own Gate 5.
"The Bewitched" features musical accompaniments for a prologue and ten scenes. Partch's music is stunningly resourceful and iconoclastic: Many of the instruments used here were created by Partch himself, and Partch embraced non-Western and ancient music as principal sources of inspiration long before it became popular for composers to do so. Also, by the 1950s, when this work was composed, Partch had worked for decades on systems of microtonality (in which the composer divides the octave into a different number of pitches than the usual 12) that the rest of the new music world was just beginning to catch up with. "The Bewitched" is intensely percussive, and despite its cosmopolitan themes (exoticism, basketball, xenophobia, women's suffrage), it often sounds like field recordings of folk songs from unfamiliar lands."
This edition
condition: M/VG+ (ring wear)
Format
A dance-satire featuring musical instruments designed and built by the composer The Bewitched was commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation and the University of Illinois School of Music. This release was made possible by a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University. ℗1973 Composers Recordings, Inc. The music is published by Music Magazine (BMI) Painting, "Stairway Unto Infinity," courtesy Robert Schoelkopf Gallery Recorded by Gate 5 Records at the University of Illinois at the university's Champaign-Urbana campus in 1957. Originally released in both a condensed single LP version as well as. Comes in a gatefold sleeve. Durations: A 18:28 B 16:31 C 20:00 D 20:52
Release notes
A dance-satire featuring musical instruments designed and built by the composer The Bewitched was commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation and the University of Illinois School of Music. This release was made possible by a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University. ℗1973 Composers Recordings, Inc. The music is published by Music Magazine (BMI) Painting, "Stairway Unto Infinity," courtesy Robert Schoelkopf Gallery Recorded by Gate 5 Records at the University of Illinois at…
| A | Prologue - The Lost Musicians Mix Magic | ||
| B1 | Scene 1 - Three Undergrads Become Transfigured In A Hong Kong Music Hall | ||
| B2 | Scene 2 - Exercises In Harmony And Counterpoint Are Tried In A Court Of Ancient Ritual | ||
| B3 | Scene 3 - The Romancing Of A Pathological Liar Comes To An Inspired End | ||
| C1 | Scene 4 - A Soul Tormented By Contemporary Music Finds A Humanizing Alchemy | ||
| C2 | Scene 5 - Visions Fill The Eyes Of A Defeated Basketball Team In The Shower Room | ||
| C3 | Scene 6 - Euphoria Descends A Sausalito Stairway | ||
| C4 | Scene 7 - Two Detectives On The Tail Of A Tricky Culprit Turn In Their Badges | ||
| D1 | Scene 8 - A Court In Its Own Contempt Rises To A Motherly Apotheosis | ||
| D2 | Scene 9 - A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among The Voteless Women Of Paradise | ||
| D3 | Scene 10 - The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into A Demonic Descent While At Cocktails |
- Joseph Firrantello
- Bass Clarinet
- Peter Farrell
- Cello
- The Chorus Of Lost Musicians
- Chorus
- Warren Birkett
- Clarinet
- Harry Partch
- Composed By, Supervised By [Production], Liner Notes
- John Garvey
- Conductor
- The University Of Illinois Musical Ensemble
- Ensemble, Orchestra
- Carol Zuckerberg
- Koto
- DBH
- Lacquer Cut By
- Warren Smith
- Marimba [Bass]
- Danlee Mitchell
- Marimba [Diamond]
- William Olson
- Marimba [Eroica], Voice [Male Solo], Leader [Chorus]
- Herbert Bielawa
- Organ [Chromelodeon]
- Cecile Gray Bazelon
- Painting [Cover]
- Thomas Gauger
- Percussion [Boo], Marimba [Bamboo]
- George Andrix
- Percussion [Cloud Chamber Bowls]
- Michael Donzella
- Percussion [Spoils Of War]
- Dong Kingman, Jr.
- Photography By [Back Cover Film]
- Charles Delaney
- Piccolo Flute
- Carter Harman
- Producer
- Lyle Dahms
- Recorded By
- Freda Schell
- Vocals [The Witch]
- Georgi Mayer
- Zither [Harmonic Canon (Castor)]
- Barbara Grammar
- Zither [Harmonic Canon (Pollux)]
- Jan Bach
- Zither [Kithara (Left Side)]
- Sanford Berry
- Zither [Kithara (Right Side)]
- Jack McKenzie
- Zither [Surrogate Kithara], Gong
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