The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present
PARTCH DANCES
An evening of music by the pioneering microtonal composer Harry Partch performed by the 7-member ensemble PARTCH, directed by John Schneider, on custom instruments tuned in Just Intonation. Featured works include a rare performance of "Castor & Pollux" with new choreography created by Mills dance faculty, Molissa Fenley. The performance will take place in Mills' Lisser Hall where Partch actually composed "Castor & Pollux" back in the 1950s.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
8:00 pm
Lisser Hall
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA
510 430-2296
http://music.mills.edu/services/calendar/
$12 general, $6 seniors and students
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Lisser Hall
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA
510 430-2296
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Program:
PARTCH Dances
Cloud Chamber Music (1950)
adapted viola / guitar III / kithara / diamond & bass marimbas / cloud
chamber bowls/rattles
Eight Intrusions (1950)
1. The Rose (Ella Young, 1938)
2. The Crane (Tsurayuki, 13th.century Japanese, trans. Waley)
3. The Waterfall (Ella Young, 1938)
4. Study on an Ancient Greek Scale: Archytas‚ Enharmonic
5. The Wind (Ella Young, 1938)
6. Soldiers - War - Another War (Ungaretti, 1948)
7. The Street (Willard Motley, 1947)
8. The Letter
baritone / canons / kithara / adapted guitars I, II & III / diamond &
bass marimbas / bowls
December 1942
1. Come Away, Death (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night II:iv)
2. The Heron (Tsurayuki, 13th.century Japanese, trans. Waley)
3. The Rose (Ella Young, 1938)
baritone / adapted guitar I
Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker's Inscriptions (1941/3)
1. Today I Am a Man 5. Possible Rides
2. Gentlemen 6. Jesus Was God in the Flesh
3. Considered Pretty 7. You Lucky Women
4. A very Good Idea 8. Why in Hell did you Come?
voices / adapted gtr I / chromelodeon / diamond marimba
-- intermission --
Sonata Dementia (1950)
1. Abstraction & Delusion
2. Scherzo Schizophrenia
3. Allegro Paranoia
ensemble
Castor & Pollux (1952)
choreography / Molissa Fenley
Castor : Leda and the Swan
1. Insemination: Kithara + Cloud Chamber Bowls
2. Conception: Harmonic Canon + Bass Marimba (Hi)
3. Incubation: Diamond Marimba + Bass Marimba (Lo)
4. Delivery: All Instruments
Pollux : Leda and the Swan
1. Insemination: Kithara + Bass Marimba (Lo)
2. Conception: Harmonic Canon + Cloud Chamber Bowls
3. Incubation: Diamond Marimba + Bass Marimba (Hi)
4. Delivery: All Instruments
Cost: $12/6