Partch at the REDCAT

http://outwestarts.blogspot.com/2008/05/old-curiosity-shop.html

This time around the decade was the 1950s with a program featuring
Partch, an ensemble (formerly known as Just Strings) dedicated to
performance of works from American composer Harry Partch under the
leadership of guitarist and founding member John Schneider. The
evening was momentous in a way in that it consisted of the first full
performance of Plectra and Percussion Dances, an hour long work of
music for dance and other potential collaborations, since it was
originally premiered during a live radio broadcast in 1953. In fact,
the performance included the recorded elements of the original
broadcast such as Partch's own introduction to the three segments of
the work. The piece deals with a variety of themes based on mythology
but has a much broader agenda and sense of humor about topics of life
and death on the whole.

Read the whole thing.

Prent Rodgers