MicroFest 2009 season announced

MICROFEST

"Amazing Grace"
The 2009 Festival of Microtonal Music

MicroFest announces its 13th season of exploring the beauty that lies
between the keys of the piano with seven events across Southern
California. Concerts this year will feature Ben Johnston, Harry
Partch, Garry Eister, and Chiyoko Szlavnics, as well as dazzling
performances by Partch, the Calder Quartet, the HMC American Gamelan,
and many others. For more information, including pictures, links, and
music, go to:

www.MicroFest.org

and tune into KPFK.org (90.7 FM) at 11 AM Thursdays preceeding each
concert for MicroFest previews.

sounds you've never heard before

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Ben Johnston @ CalArts
Wednesday, March 11 8:00 PM
Roy O. Disney Hall, CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway / Valencia

The microtonal pioneer comes to Southern California for a historic
festival at CalArts, featuring his Suite for Microtonal Piano, the
one-woman opera Calamity Jane, One Man for trombone and percussion,
Alap and Progression for double bass, and the Southern California
premiere of The Tavern for baritone and refretted guitar.

Free Admission

For more information, call 661/255-1050

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Calder Quartet @ Colburn
Friday March 20 7:30 PM
Zipper Hall, The Colburn School
200 South Grand Avenue / Los Angeles

The Calder perform Ben Johnston's groundbreaking microtonal Quartet #4
"Amazing Grace" along with Mozart's G minor quintet and Beethoven's
Rasumovsky Op. 59 #1.

Free admission

For more information, call 213/621-1050

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Wildflowers: Music by Chiyoko Szlavnics
Friday April 17 8:00 PM
the wulf.
1026 South Santa Fe Ave. #203 / Los Angeles

Otherworldly sounds from the artist-composer Chiyoko Szlavnics,
including a premiere of her Wildflowers.

Free. Donations accepted.

For more information, see thewulf.org

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Sonic Alloys II
Sunday May 11 / 8:00 PM
Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College
150 E. 4th St., Claremont

Free admission

Joyful collisions of Indonesian gamelan and Western strings, video and
electronics featuring works of Bill Alves, David Doty, Kyle Gann, and
Lou Harrison with the Euphoria string quartet, pianist Aron Kallay,
and the HMC American Gamelan.

For more information, call 909/607-4170.

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SLEEP: A S'real S'rvey of the Nightscape by Garry Eister

Two Performances:
Wednesday May 27 8:00 PM
Pierce College Performing Arts Building
6201 Winnetka Ave / Woodland Hills
Donation $15/10. For more information call 818/719-6476

Friday June 5 8:00 PM
Cal Poly Pomona, Music Recital Hall, building 24
3801 West Temple Avenue / Pomona
$7. For more information call 909/869-3554

A piece of music-theater for storyteller, dancers, video puppets and a
chamber ensemble of various kinds of guitars and percussion, including
a resonator guitar fretted in just intonation and a quarter-tone
guitar chorus. Dreams are the subjects of SLEEP, and the piece draws
from variety shows, dance recitals, poetry readings, traditional
theater, radio theater, world and classical music. Occasionally, the
music melts.

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Partch Dark / Partch Light
Friday and Saturday May 29 & 30 8:30 PM
REDCAT Theater in Disney Hall 631 W. Second St. Los Angeles
$25/$20 students & seniors
$15 CalArts students/faculty/staff
REDCAT box office 213/237-2800 www.redcat.org

Harry Partch was famous for his multihued, many-splendored musical
personalities — from contemplative to whimsical, from darkly brooding
to achingly hilarious. The ensemble directed by John Schneider
continues its multimedia survey of the one-of-a-kind American composer
and raconteur with a program that features the out-and-out zaniness of
Yankee Doodle Fantasy; the forlorn and beautiful Eleven Intrusions;
the intensely anguished Dark Brother (a setting of Thomas Wolfe's
"God's Lonely Man"); and the cheerful loopiness of Two Settings from
Finnegans Wake and O Frabjous Day! (The Jabberwock). Also: a rare
screening of Madeline Tourtelot's art-house film Windsong (1958). And,
as always, the fantastic array of Partch's custom-built microtonal
instruments.

"Talk about exhilaration...Wow and triple wow!" — Alan Rich

"Best of 2008 - The Artists' Artists" — Artforum

bill_alves wrote:
> as well as dazzling
> performances by Partch, Last time I checked, Partch was no longer giving concerts. ;-)