MicroFest 2004

http://www.microfest.org/

MicroFest 2004

sounds you've never heard before
A Southern California Festival of Microtonal Music

SUNDAY, MAY 9
b 8:00 P.M.—Pomona College, Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building,
Corner of Fourth and College, Claremont
TUNED GAMELAN AND PIANOS
Featuring works of Bill Alves, Tom Flaherty, Ron George, Charles Ives
and Peter Steele performed by the Harvey Mudd College American
Gamelan, Mary Dropkin, Karl and Margaret Kohn, and the Tambellan.
Free and open to the public
For more information, please call 909/607-4170

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
b 8:30 P.M.—REDCAT Theater in Disney Hall, 621 W. Second Street, Los
Angeles
GAYLE YOUNG: NEW TUNINGS FOR NEW INSTRUMENTS
In the tradition of Harry Partch, the great California champion of
alternative tuning systems, Gayle Young designs and builds her own
instruments. These include the Columbine, a metallophone using 23
pitches per octave in an expanded Just Intonation tuning system, and
the Amaranth, a 24-string instrument with a flexible tuning system,
which she will perform solo and with CalArts faculty and students.
Tickets $24/$12 students and seniors
REDCAT box office at 213/237-2800 and http://www.redcat.org/

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, MAY 15 and 16
b 8:00 P.M.—The Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles, Pasadena
FRENZY AT THE ROYAL THRESHOLD, AN ANAPHORIAN SHADOW PLAY
The legend behind Anaphoria's most famous marriage, starring and
assembled by Erin Barnes, Geoffrey Brandin, Kraig Grady (Main
Director), Roger Mexico (Theatrical Director), Rick Potts, Rainbow
Underhill (as the Princess) plus others.
Donation: $10/$8 museum members
Information/reservations (available only until May 14), please call
323/258-3260
http://www.anaphoria.com/shadow.html

SATURDAY, MAY 29
b 8:00 P.M.—Pierce College, Performing Arts Building, Woodland Hills
JUST STRINGS/DANCES & TRANCES
Music of John Luther Adams, Béla Bartók, Mamoru Fujieda, Lou Harrison,
György Ligeti, Harry Partch, James Tenney and a NEW WORK by Terry
Riley for Just National Steel Guitar
Tickets $15/$10 students & seniors
For more information, please call 818/719-6476

FRIDAY, JUNE 11
b 8:30 P.M.—REDCAT Theater in Disney Hall, 621 W. Second Street, Los
Angeles
HARRY PARTCH/BITTER MUSIC
John Schneider & Just Strings
Often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Partch's long-lost 1935 hobo
journal will be performed for the first time as a special multimedia
presentation with the composer's legendary instruments. From the
transient shelters of mid-Depression California to the reading room of
the British Museum, from cleaning sewers to taking tea with Irish poet
W.B. Yeats, Partch's story reveals seven months in a lifetime of
extraordinary struggle to forge a new musical language outside the
tradition of Western Classical music.
Tickets $24/$12 students and seniors
REDCAT box office at 213/237-2800 and http://www.redcat.org/
A Southern California Festival of Microtonal Music

For more information on the entire MicroFest 2004 series, please visit
our website http://www.microfest.org/
Listen to KPFK 90.7 FM every Thursday in May at 11:00 A.M. for special
previews of MicroFest 2004.
Special thanks to the Garrett Fund of the Harvey Mudd College
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Pomona College Music
Department, Pacific Asia Museum, Pierce College and California
Institute of the Arts.