[NewMusicEvents] **RARE PERFORMANCE** Music by Harry Partch at Mills April 21

[Steed Cowart]

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/

FREE to Mills students, faculty, and staff
$12 general, $6 seniors and non-Mills students
Tickets may be purchased at the door or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com/

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