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Release Date: 01/25/2005 Label: New World Records Catalog #: 80623 Spars Code: n/a Composer: Harry Partch Performer: Harry Partch, Freda Pierce Conductor: Jack Logan, John Garvey Orchestra/Ensemble: Harry Partch Ensemble, Gate 5 Ensemble
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This third volume of “The Harry Partch Collection,” salvaged from CRI’s demise, catches Partch moving into the stereo era and features two of the best-sounding takes in the series and two of the worst. For Madeline Tourtelot’s film evocation Windsong, Partch resorted to the expedient of performing all parts of his score himself and overdubbing—in tubby mono—which makes for a stiffly tentative reading, with some instruments looming like gangbusters and others receding. A booklet photograph, in which the series is rich, catches Tourtelot in 1958 priming a reel-to-reel machine with Partch and the instruments in the background, apparently in her living room, revealing the origin of the boomy, reverberant sound. Retitled Daphne of the Dunes, the piece may be heard to somewhat better advantage and exponentially better sound performed in 1994 by Dean Drummond and ensemble on Partch’s unique instruments (Mode 33—for this and the “The Harry Partch Collection” generally, see Fanfare 21:4) and, best of all, from the 1969 LP album “The World of Harry Partch” (Columbia MS 7202), where takes of Daphne, Barstow, and Castor & Pollux, with Partch supervising and occasionally participating, are given their most compelling performances on discs of any description. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (1961), whose over-close capture threatens to burst the aural frame, is a smart-alecking accompaniment to gymnastic movements that would not be out of place on a program with Janáček’s Sinfonietta. Something like up-to-date recording technology seems to have attended performances of the remaining works. Water! Water! (1961) and The Dreamer that Remains (1972) are frankly comedic, the former a “satirical farce”—silly, endearing, and pure West Coast—while the more coy Dreamer is Partch’s valediction, funny and moving at once. As always, the sharp particularity of the Partch instruments—the Partch aesthetic (or anti-aesthetic)—wings through the vagaries of time and technology rife with piquant pizzazz, magic, and a sort of surreal grace. Extensive notes by Partch’s biographer, Bob Gilmore, confect a final elegance. Highest recommendation. Adrian Corleonis, FANFARE |
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The Dreamer that Remains by Harry Partch | ||||
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Performer:
Harry Partch (Spoken Vocals)
Conductor: Jack Logan Orchestra/Ensemble: Harry Partch Ensemble Period: 20th Century Written: 1972; USA |
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Date of Recording: 1972 Venue: San Diego, California Length: 10 Minutes 29 Secs. |
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Rotate the Body in all its Planes by Harry Partch | ||||
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Performer:
Freda Pierce (Soprano)
Conductor: John Garvey Orchestra/Ensemble: Harry Partch Ensemble Period: 20th Century Written: 1963; USA |
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Date of Recording: 1961 Venue: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Length: 8 Minutes 51 Secs. |
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Windsong by Harry Partch | ||||
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Performer:
Harry Partch ()
Period: 20th Century Written: 1958; USA |
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Date of Recording: 1958 Venue: Chicago, Illinois Length: 11 Minutes 36 Secs. |
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Water! Water! by Harry Partch | ||||
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Conductor:
John Garvey
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gate 5 Ensemble Period: 20th Century Written: 1961; USA |
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Date of Recording: 1962 Venue: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Length: 37 Minutes 49 Secs. |
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