concert announcement

Harry Partch ,Hosaphones and the Chromelodeon
Critical Band at the Music Gallery on Saturday, November 17, 20001
St George the Martyr Anglican Church, 197 John Street at Stephenie Street
Tickets $15
Box office 416-204-1080

Critical Band makes a rare appearance to honour the 100th anniversary of Harry Partch�s birth. Each
member of this eclectic Toronto-based group is a composer, performer, and instrument-builder.
Using traditional, modified, and custom-made instruments, Critical Band performs a range of works.
Included among these is American maverick composer Harry Partch's Li Po Settings and Barstow, an
arrangement of hitchhiker inscriptions collected by Partch, on reproductions of his
instruments.Featuring New Yorkers Johnny Reinhard (leader of the American Festival of Microtonal
Music) on voice and bassoon and Anastasia Solberg on viola as well as locals Willis on surragate
chromelodeon (rebuilt from two accordions) and Gzowski on adapted guitar. They will also be adding
a brass section playing �hoseaphones� (garden hose natural brass) and Romano Dinillo on percussion
for performances of new works by Garnet Willis, John Sherlock, Johnny Reinhard and John Gzowski.
This is the first stop on a tour that includes dates in Winnipeg and Vancouver, presented by
Groundswell and Vancouver New Music.

The music that surrounds us in North America is based on a that divides the octave into 12 notes.
Microtonal music divides the octave into smaller unites; all of this music uses a 43-note octave!.
This offers a range of sound that takes us into new territory. One of the most well-known
proponents of microtonal music in North America was Harry Partch. He was described as an "American
composer, librettist, philosopher, publisher, record distributor, teacher, satirist, instrument
builder and designer, sculptor, instrument repairman and tuner, theorist, experimentalist,
iconoclast, self-taught musician, percussionist, adapted violist, conductor, author, retired hobo,
seaman, sewer cleaner, dishwasher and kitchen flunky, comedian, vagrant, member of the Percussive
Arts Society Hall of Fame, and graffitist. In his musical life, his own composition began with the
rejection of the European masters and the traditional concert-hall performance. The resulting
musical aesthetic is reflective of such influences as Chinese lullabies, Hebrew chants for the
dead, Christian hymns, Congo puberty rites, lumber yards, junk shops, and Boris Godunov.

Contact
John Gzowski
Jgzowski@goodmedia.com

critical band gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Toronto
Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Coucil and the Laidlaw Foundation

--- In tuning@y..., "John Gzowski" <jgzowski@g...> wrote:

> Harry Partch ,Hosaphones and the Chromelodeon

[...]

> They will also be adding
> a brass section playing "hoseaphones" (garden hose natural brass)

I know a certain list member who became very peeved when (s)he
encountered a hosaphone in my music, and who I expect might be peeved
squared if (s)he knew that hosaphones were going to be used for a
Partch performance. But I hope good sense and an open mind will
prevail instead.

The Partch works are Barstow and 6 Li Po songs. The Hosephones are for the new works. (Paul, don't you go causing any trouble, now....)

Johnny Reinhard

--- In tuning@y..., Afmmjr@a... wrote:
> The Partch works are Barstow and 6 Li Po songs. The Hosephones are
for the new works. (Paul, don't you go causing any trouble, now....)
>
> Johnny Reinhard

Oops, sorry! I should have read that more carefully!!!

This came out of me because I recently re-read a certain "blowing
party favors" remark in the archives that I'd rather leave buried and
forgotten. Let's hope others have the same preference.

David Wessel will perform on the Continuum Fingerboard in a
concert with Conrad Harris at 8pm on Thursday, March 18,
Merkin Concert Hall, New York City. For more information please
see the CNMAT calendar.

http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/