Harry Partch: Bitter Music

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Label
Bridge Records
Release Date
December 13, 2011
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PARTCH, HARRY
    • PERFORMER
      John Schneider
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 13, 2011
    • UPC
      090404934926
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BCD9349A/C
    • LABEL
      Bridge Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Preface

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    2. June 11, 1935 - Santa Rosa, California

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    3. June 15 - Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    4. June 24 - Today is my birthday

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    5. London, October 1934

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    6. London, October 1934 - By the Rivers of Babylon

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    7. London, October 1934 - I draw my last bow, and there is silence

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    8. Wimbledon, London, March 1935

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    9. Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    10. July 20 - Heading North, Between Sacramento and Redding

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    11. July 25 - Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    12. August 5 - Toledo

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    13. August 11 - SERA Camp, Ingot

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    14. September 1 - Cisco

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    15. October 22 - Nearing Monterey

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    16. October 22 - Letter form Hobo Pablo

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    17. October 22 - Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    18. October 24 - Leaving Big Sur

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    19. October 30 - Big Creek

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    20. November 15 - Leaving Santa Barbara

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    21. December. 1935 - Night. Four black walls -

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    22. February 1, 1936 - San Bernadino

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble

    23. Postlude

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Partch Ensemble


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.