Partch's connection with 'Normal' places

> [David Beardsley, TD 278.4]
>
> New York Times
> August 11, 1999
>
> Music Is Hefty but Still Finds a Good Home
>
> By ANDY NEWMAN
>
> <snip...>
> Drummond, the 50-year-old co-director of an avant-garde
> music ensemble, Newband, and the official custodian of
> the Harry Partch Instrumentarium, was on the move.
>
> Over the last week, he brought the collection, in four
> truckloads, from its last home, in a cardboard box
> factory in Rockland County, down Route 17 to Route 80
> to Valley Road, right here to a tidy campus on Normal
> Avenue. "A great street for us, right?" Drummond asked.

What a coincidence! This is the second time that the word
'normal' is ironically associated with Partch geographically:
the last neighborhood where Partch lived, in San Diego, is
called Normal Heights.

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
|"...I had broken thru the lattice barrier..."|
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