AFMM/Barbican program info?

To Johnny Reinhard, via the list:

Johnny, the only program information concerning the upcoming AFMM performance at the Barbican is reference to "Dark Brother". What other Partch works are you performing, and/or are there other pieces/composers represented?

TIA for the info,
Jon

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Real Life: Orchestral Percussionist
Web Life: "Corporeal Meadows" - about Harry Partch
http://www.corporeal.com/

The Barbican has asked us for a slot of 25 minutes to be filled for an
abstract real time succession of photographs by Darger. For abstract
purposes and to match an ensemble of four I suggested Dark Brother, to
connect with the Incident at Drakes Bay, and with Night of Sorrow wafting in.
The American Festival of Microtonal Music Ensemble will consist of Joshua
Pierce playing Henry Lowengard's Chromelodeon-influenced Proteus, Skip
LaPlante and his traveling Kithara (which needs 2 full days just to rebuild,
and one day to go in their travel cases), cellist David Eggar, and I will
corporeally play Skip's tubed-bass marimba and utter.

Incident at Drakes Bay is an idea piece, definitively abstract. With only
Harry Partch's intervals and a gestalt of his sound we will improvise using
Dark Brother themes, etc. I have exploring the idea of the bassoon as my
dark brother, perhaps blending in some of the Dark Brother themes. Maybe,
Dark Brother takes place in Drakes Bay?

Johnny Reinhard
Director
AFMM Ensemble

--- In tuning@y..., Afmmjr@a... wrote:
> The Barbican has asked us for a slot of 25 minutes to be filled...

and etc. Thanks, Johnny, for the info. I'll merge it with what the
Barbican site has about the images/artist and post it on the Meadows.

Cheers,
Jon

I am pleased to report that the Harry Partch program at the Barbican in
London has been lengthened to include 4 Li Po Songs; On the City Street, A
Dream, The Dear Departed Lover, and In the Springtime on the Yangtzee Kiang.
These will open the show with David Eggar on the cello.

When the Darger film is shown, the AFMM Ensemble will perform Dark Brother,
and then improvise to the drama of the film in a 17-minute Incident at
Drake's Bay.

The remainder of the program features the Delgados, an outsider rock band,
also playing to a film by a different artist, and there is supposed to be
some Gesualdo. I guess I won't really know what will happen until I get
there. I do know that Ornette Coleman performs at the Barbican on the next
night.

Best to the list, Johnny Reinhard