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Harry Partch: Bitter Music
Bridge Records

Harry Partch: Bitter Music

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Details

Composer
PARTCH, HARRY
Artist
John Schneider
Format
CD
Label
Bridge Records
Released
Dec 13, 2011
Catalog #
BCD9349A/C
UPC
090404934926

About

It is an astonishing gift of fate when a creative artist, known to the world for a particular achievement, is suddenly shown in a quite different light thanks to the existence of a single document that has somehow escaped the ruthless culling mechanisms of time. Harry Partch's Bitter Music is such a document, a "diary of eight months spent in transient shelters and camps, hobo jungles, basement rooms, and on the open road". This long-lost journal of Harry Partch's wanderings during the Great Depression (from cleaning sewers to having tea with Irish poet W. B. Yeats) is an extraordinary musical portrait of an American pioneer, chronicling his occasionally hilarious and often heartbreaking struggles to forge a new music system outside the classical tradition. This premiere recording of Bitter Music takes the form of readings and collected musical fragments- an aural diary of what was going through Partch's mind and ear during a critical period in his artistic development.

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Preface 07:27
    Track
    1
    Title
    Preface
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  3. 2 June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California 14:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California
    Duration
    14:41
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  4. 3 June 15 - Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta 09:46
    Track
    3
    Title
    June 15 - Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta
    Duration
    09:46
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  5. 4 June 24 - Today is my birthday 06:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    June 24 - Today is my birthday
    Duration
    06:06
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  6. 5 London, October 1934 03:35
    Track
    5
    Title
    London, October 1934
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  7. 6 London, October 1934 - By the Rivers of Babylon 03:25
    Track
    6
    Title
    London, October 1934 - By the Rivers of Babylon
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  8. 7 London, October 1934 - I draw my last bow, and there is silence 11:58
    Track
    7
    Title
    London, October 1934 - I draw my last bow, and there is silence
    Duration
    11:58
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  9. 8 Wimbledon, London, March 1935 13:06
    Track
    8
    Title
    Wimbledon, London, March 1935
    Duration
    13:06
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  10. Disc 2
  11. 1 Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935 13:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935
    Duration
    13:38
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  12. 2 July 20 - Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding 07:42
    Track
    2
    Title
    July 20 - Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding
    Duration
    07:42
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  13. 3 July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington 11:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington
    Duration
    11:42
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  14. 4 August 5 - Toledo 08:48
    Track
    4
    Title
    August 5 - Toledo
    Duration
    08:48
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  15. 5 August 11 - SERA Camp, Ingot 07:01
    Track
    5
    Title
    August 11 - SERA Camp, Ingot
    Duration
    07:01
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  16. 6 September 1 - Cisco 13:03
    Track
    6
    Title
    September 1 - Cisco
    Duration
    13:03
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  17. Disc 3
  18. 1 October 22 - Nearing Monterey 08:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    October 22 - Nearing Monterey
    Duration
    08:16
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  19. 2 October 22 - Letter form Hobo Pablo 03:29
    Track
    2
    Title
    October 22 - Letter form Hobo Pablo
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  20. 3 October 22 - Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays 06:09
    Track
    3
    Title
    October 22 - Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays
    Duration
    06:09
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  21. 4 October 24 - Leaving Big Sur 09:45
    Track
    4
    Title
    October 24 - Leaving Big Sur
    Duration
    09:45
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  22. 5 October 30 - Big Creek 10:31
    Track
    5
    Title
    October 30 - Big Creek
    Duration
    10:31
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  23. 6 November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara 09:46
    Track
    6
    Title
    November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara
    Duration
    09:46
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  24. 7 December. 1935 - Night. Four black walls - 08:07
    Track
    7
    Title
    December. 1935 - Night. Four black walls -
    Duration
    08:07
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  25. 8 February 1, 1936 - San Bernadino 04:37
    Track
    8
    Title
    February 1, 1936 - San Bernadino
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble
  26. 9 Postlude 03:52
    Track
    9
    Title
    Postlude
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Harry Partch
    Ensemble
    Partch Ensemble