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Alex Ross notes an ommission

🔗Prent Rodgers <prentrodgers@...>

5/5/2005 6:15:00 AM

Alex Ross is the music critic for the New Yorker who reviewed the New
Jersey Partch Oedipus performance. See
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/050418crmu_music .

He makes a correction of sorts on his blog today at
http://www.therestisnoise.com/2005/05/partched_lips.html

"When I recently wrote about Harry Partch, I made no mention Danlee
Mitchell's Harry Partch Foundation in San Diego, which had custody of
the Partch instruments from 1972 to 1989. For this omission I
apologize. Incidentally, four important recordings of Partch's music,
originally put out by the late lamented CRI label, have now been
reissued by New World Records. Also, Innova, the label of the American
Composers Forum, has a series of archival Partch issues, including a
recording of the original W. B. Yeats version of the opera Oedipus (or
King Oedipus in this version). It's thrilling to hear Yeats' voice
together with Partch's, and I hope one day to hear a live performance
of the original."

http://www.corporeal.com/cm_main.html
http://www.newworldrecords.com/
http://innova.mu/searchresults.aspx?textfieldName=Harry%20Partch

Prent Rodgers