Special guest: Lou Harrison
April 6-8, 2001
Claremont Colleges, Claremont California
The Year of the Harry Partch Centennial
3:00 | Ralph Lorenz -- "19-tET in a Renaissance Chanson by Guillaume Costeley" |
3:30 | Joe Monzo -- "Microtonality in Berlin and Vienna around 1900" |
4:15 | Alejandro L. Madrid -- "Grammatical and Syntactic Aspects of Sonido Trece: The Microtonal System of Julian Carrillo" |
4:45 | Dudley Duncan -- "Visual Music: A Graphic Appreciation of Partch's Tuning" |
5:15 | Brian McLaren -- "Alexei Ogolevets, Master Russian Microtonalist" |
Time | Event | Location | Notes | ||||||||
9:00-11:15 | PAPER SESSION II
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Thatcher Music Building Room 109 | |||||||||
1:15-2:45 | PAPER SESSION III
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Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building | |||||||||
3:00 | CONCERT III | Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building | |||||||||
7:00 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Lou Harrison | Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building | |||||||||
8:00 | CONCERT IV | Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building |
Time | Event | Location | Notes | ||||||||||
9:00-10:45 | PAPER SESSION IV
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Thatcher Music Building Room 109 | |||||||||||
10:45-11:45 | Panel: Warren Burt and Brian McLaren -- "Rational Microtonality: Some Approaches to Microtones in Seven-Limit (and Greater) Extended Just Intonation" | Thatcher Music Building Room 109 | |||||||||||
1:30-4:15 | PAPER SESSION V
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Thatcher Music Building Room 109 | |||||||||||
4:30 | Conference Dinner | TBA | Extra charge of $20; reservations required by March 15 | ||||||||||
7:30 | Bill Alves: Tuning and the Music of Lou Harrison | Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building | |||||||||||
8:00 | CONCERT V -- Music of Lou Harrison | Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building |
assembled by Kraig Grady, Roger Mexico, Erin Barnes, Quinten Tolimieri, Rainbow Underhill, Johnathan Marmor
HollyMatter Art Gallery
710 Heliotrope Dr. (near Vermont/Melrose)
Silverlake/Hollywood, CA 90029
323-666-0303
HollyMatter Art Gallery
710 Heliotrope Dr. (near Vermont/Melrose)
Silverlake/Hollywood, CA 90029
323-666-0303
Microtonal Music for Original and Traditional Instruments
Featuring
Ron George and Ringing Tambellans
Nyoman Wenten and the Cal Arts Gamelan Ensemble
A Collaborative Concert Featuring:
University of California Percussion Ensemble, Erik Forrester, Director
Cal Arts Percussion Ensemble, David Johnson, Director
Cal Arts Gamelan Ensemble, Nyoman Wenten, Director
Program
Ringing Tambellans Ensemble
Ben Johnston, Sleep and Waking (1994)
Soloist and Ringing Tambellans Ensemble (5 percussionists)
Ron George Soloist
Ron George, Saint's Prayer (2001), World Premiere
Soloist and Ringing Tambellans Ensemble (4 percussionists)
Ron George Soloist
Ron George, Improv on a Broken Nose (1999)
Improvised Composition for two Tambellan Keyboards (2 Percussionists)
David Johnson and Ron George
Percussionists
Gamelan Ensemble
James Tenny, The Road to Ubud (1986)
Solo Prepared Piano and Gamelan Ensemble (6 percussionists)
Soloist to be Determined
California Institute of the Arts
Roy O Disney Music Hall
May 19, 2001
8:00 PM
Admission, $12.00
For Further information: 213/623-6845
Kraig Grady
Susan Rawcliff
George Zelenz
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, L.A. is located at the Schindler House in West Hollywood. The street address is 835 N. Kings Road and parking is available at the West Hollywood structure at the northeast corner of Kings Road and Santa Monica Boulevard. Admission to "sound." will be $8; students $4. Series tickets are available for $25. Doors will open at 7 p.m. each evening, with performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. For further information, the public may contact www.MAKcenter.com or call (323) 651-1510.
9:30 - 10:00 am: Registration coffee
10-11:30 Greetings
- Dr. John Schneider/Erv Wilson
Lecture/Demo: 43 notes to the Octave?
Why (Theory) & How (The Instruments):
Monophone (1929) [adapted 'cello], Kithara I (1938), Adapted
Guitars
I(1935) & II(1945), Diamond Marimba(1946), Harmonic Canon
(1945)
11:30-12:30 - Instrument "Petting Zoo"
12:30-1:30 - Lunch (visit art exhibit)
1:30-2:30 - Dr. Philip Blackburn
producer/Enclosure
Series
Innova Records/American Composer's Forum
Slide show & lecture on Life & Drawings
of Harry Partch
2:30-3:30 - Panel Discussion Moderator/John
Schneider
Participants (to be confirmed): Philip Blackburn, Emil Richards (Partch
Ensemble member), Stephen Pouliot, Alan Chapman (critic), Erv Wilson
(friend
& theorist), Danlee Mitchell et al
3:30-4:00 - Coffee Break
films
4:00-4:45 - Stephen Pouliot/director introduces
The Dreamer That Remains (1972)
4:45-6:00 - Danlee Mitchell conductor &
Partch assistant introduces his
performance of Delusion of the Fury (1969) filmed at Royce Hall
6:00-8:00 - Dinner
8:00-10:00 - Evening Concert: The Early Years
1930-1950
Just Strings
The Early Years [1929 - 1950]
¥ San Francisco: A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a
Street
Corner
(1943) - 2 baritones/adapted cello/kithara/surrogate chromelodeon
ensemble
My Heart Keeps Beating Time (1929) voice/piano
Li Po Lyrics [excerpts] (1933)
baritone/adapted cello
Psalm 29: The Lord is my Shepherd (1932) baritone/adapted viola
baritone/adapted cello
Bitter Music: [excerpts from hobo journal] (1935)
narrator/voice/piano
Two Roses : The Rose (1942) & The Rose (1950)
baritone/adapted guitar I/diamond marimba
Three Cranes : The Heron (1942) & The Crane (1950)
&
A Polyphonic Recidivism
on a Japanese Theme (1950)
baritone/adapted guitar I/diamond marimba/satb
intermission
Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker's Inscriptions (1941)
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?
baritone/adapted guitar I
Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (1950)
harmonic canon
Letter from Hobo Pablo (1943)
baritone/adapted guitar/kithara
December 1942: Come Away Death, The Heron, The Rose
baritone/adapted guitar I
3 Intrusions: The Rose, The Crane, The Waterfall (1950)
baritone/adapted guitar II/diamond marimba
On Display Photo Exhibit ( Schoenberg
Hall)
"I was a Bum Once Myself....." curated by Harry Partch Foundation (36
-16x20
mounted black & white captioned photographs)
Betty Freeman: 4 - 16"x20" b&w captioned photos
4 - 12"x16" photos
Glass Case Exhibit
Betty Freeman: 13 - signed inscribed 78 records
from Partch's Gate 5 label
Partch Archive: autograph scores