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Partch concert and exhibition

🔗Jonathan M. Szanto <jszanto@xxxx.xxxx>

9/16/1999 9:05:12 AM

Hey, hello everyone!

John Chalmers has asked me to post this to the list, so my
apologies for the few of you that will get it twice (and John
deLaubenfels, drop me a line, as the email addr I have for you
is bouncing.

Anyway, if you haven't noticed:

- Newband is playing concerts on two coasts: New Jersey was on
Sept. 12 and San Fran on Sept. 23.
- Concurrent with the SF concert, Randy Hoffman (another old Partch
hand) and I have produced an exhibition of photographs from the
Harry Partch Archive (see below)
- Newband moved to Montclair State U. in NJ
- I've revamped the Meadows guide to Partch media (cds, books,
videos) and done swell things like put images of the items, linked
to amazon.com for your ease and (maybe) my pennies
- Another update on the "Delusion"/Enclosure 6 upcoming release

All the basic information is on the main page at the site:
<http:/www.corporeal.com/>

Complete info on the Newband/SF concert is at:
<http://www.corporeal.com/nb_news.html>

including a RealAudio clip of the new Dean Drummond piece
"Congressional Record", which they'll be playing in the Bay area.

Also, in honor of Harry, his passing 25 years ago, his time
spent in the Bay area and his corporeality in general, Randy
Hoffman and I have been proud to produce an exhibition of rare
photographs, titled "HARRY PARTCH - I Was a Bum Once Myself".
It will include 35 or so photographs taken from the Harry Partch
Archives and will be a glimpse at his long life of making music
and art, against all odds. It wasn't easy narrowing it down, but
we are pleased with what we think is a wide-ranging portrait of
this singularly artistic human being. The exhibition takes place
at OmniCircus, the gallery/performance space established by Frank
Garvey, whose father, John, conducted major premieres of Harry's
work in the 50's and 60's.

The opening reception for the photo show at the OmniCircus will be
- WEDNESDAY SEPT 22, 5-8pm.
The exhibit will be open from Wed. Sept 22 through Sat. Sept 25,
from 12noon - 5pm. Admission is free to the Partch exhibit and the
opening reception. Randy and I will be at the opening reception,
one or the other of us will most likely be there on the other days.

HARRY PARTCH - I Was a Bum Once Myself
OmniCircus <http://www.omnicircus.com/>
550 Natoma St.
(between 6th & 7th & Mission & Howard, door on Russ St.)
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415)701-0686
($5 parking at 7th on Mission.)

That's all for now, hope this wasn't a burden. If any of you listors
or listees manage to make it to the concert/exhibit, please say hi.
At the concert I should be the one in the bow tie...

Corporeally,
Jon
`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`
Jonathan M. Szanto : Corporeal Meadows - Harry Partch, online.
jszanto@adnc.com : http://www.corporeal.com/
`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`

🔗John F. Sprague <JSprague@xxxx.xxxxx.xx.xxx>

9/17/1999 7:31:07 AM

I was there. It was free. (Although there have been performances with Partch's instruments in New York City in the past, I never found out about them in time to attend.) When I met with Harry in Champaign in the summer of 1960, his instruments were in storage, although he took me to see them. So this was the first time I ever heard them in a live performance. Some were orignials and some were replacements, such as the chromolodeon and the bamboo marimba.
About 150 people attended. Some were standing in the rear although scattered seats sere available. The seating capacity of the recital hall in McEachern Hall is about 175. It is designed for good acoustics.
The program started with a brief discussion and demonstration of the instruments by Dean Drummond, followed by "Ring Around the Moon" . After some rearrangements on stage, Newband played Drummond's "Dance of the Seven Veils", followed by more rearranging and his "Congressional Record", which had premiered earlier this summer elsewhere. Both of these used instruments he invented in addition to Partch's: the zoomoozophone and justrokerods. Although the audience reception was excellent, the group was apparently unprepared to do an encore.
As best as I could tell, the performances were excellent, compared to familiar recordings of "Ring Around the Moon". A slight change was made in the text, substituting "twinkie-winkie" for "itsy-bitsy" after the words "teeny-weenie". Perhaps this was to avoid association with the song about the yellow polka dot bikini, even though that was written about ten years after "Ring". I wonder whether Paul Vance and/or Lee Pockriss got the idea for their title from Partch's text. Does anyone know?
Dean Drummond expects to teach a course at MSU in the spring semester if enough students sign up.

>>> "Jonathan M. Szanto" <jszanto@adnc.com> 09/16 12:05 PM >>>
From: "Jonathan M. Szanto" <jszanto@adnc.com>

Hey, hello everyone!

John Chalmers has asked me to post this to the list, so my
apologies for the few of you that will get it twice (and John
deLaubenfels, drop me a line, as the email addr I have for you
is bouncing.

Anyway, if you haven't noticed:

- Newband is playing concerts on two coasts: New Jersey was on
Sept. 12 and San Fran on Sept. 23.
- Concurrent with the SF concert, Randy Hoffman (another old Partch
hand) and I have produced an exhibition of photographs from the
Harry Partch Archive (see below)
- Newband moved to Montclair State U. in NJ
- I've revamped the Meadows guide to Partch media (cds, books,
videos) and done swell things like put images of the items, linked
to amazon.com for your ease and (maybe) my pennies
- Another update on the "Delusion"/Enclosure 6 upcoming release

All the basic information is on the main page at the site:
<http:/www.corporeal.com/>

Complete info on the Newband/SF concert is at:
<http://www.corporeal.com/nb_news.html>

including a RealAudio clip of the new Dean Drummond piece
"Congressional Record", which they'll be playing in the Bay area.

Also, in honor of Harry, his passing 25 years ago, his time
spent in the Bay area and his corporeality in general, Randy
Hoffman and I have been proud to produce an exhibition of rare
photographs, titled "HARRY PARTCH - I Was a Bum Once Myself".
It will include 35 or so photographs taken from the Harry Partch
Archives and will be a glimpse at his long life of making music
and art, against all odds. It wasn't easy narrowing it down, but
we are pleased with what we think is a wide-ranging portrait of
this singularly artistic human being. The exhibition takes place
at OmniCircus, the gallery/performance space established by Frank
Garvey, whose father, John, conducted major premieres of Harry's
work in the 50's and 60's.

The opening reception for the photo show at the OmniCircus will be
- WEDNESDAY SEPT 22, 5-8pm.
The exhibit will be open from Wed. Sept 22 through Sat. Sept 25,
from 12noon - 5pm. Admission is free to the Partch exhibit and the
opening reception. Randy and I will be at the opening reception,
one or the other of us will most likely be there on the other days.

HARRY PARTCH - I Was a Bum Once Myself
OmniCircus <http://www.omnicircus.com/>
550 Natoma St.
(between 6th & 7th & Mission & Howard, door on Russ St.)
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415)701-0686
($5 parking at 7th on Mission.)

That's all for now, hope this wasn't a burden. If any of you listors
or listees manage to make it to the concert/exhibit, please say hi.
At the concert I should be the one in the bow tie...

Corporeally,
Jon
`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`
Jonathan M. Szanto : Corporeal Meadows - Harry Partch, online.
jszanto@adnc.com : http://www.corporeal.com/
`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`

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🔗John F. Sprague <JSprague@xxxx.xxxxx.xx.xxx>

10/26/1999 7:29:14 AM

The list of spring term courses is now available for Montclair State University, but I couldn't find any mention of Dean Drummond or any course title that looked like it could be his. Perhaps he is included in the listing as "staff". His course might be a "percussion practicum" or something like that, but why be so elusive? Does anyone know what happened? I expect to write to him soon to try and find out.

>>> "John F. Sprague" <JSprague@dhcr.state.ny.us> 09/17 10:31 AM >>>
From: "John F. Sprague" <JSprague@dhcr.state.ny.us>

I was there. It was free. (Although there have been performances with Partch's instruments in New York City in the past, I never found out about them in time to attend.) When I met with Harry in Champaign in the summer of 1960, his instruments were in storage, although he took me to see them. So this was the first time I ever heard them in a live performance. Some were orignials and some were replacements, such as the chromolodeon and the bamboo marimba.
About 150 people attended. Some were standing in the rear although scattered seats sere available. The seating capacity of the recital hall in McEachern Hall is about 175. It is designed for good acoustics.
The program started with a brief discussion and demonstration of the instruments by Dean Drummond, followed by "Ring Around the Moon" . After some rearrangements on stage, Newband played Drummond's "Dance of the Seven Veils", followed by more rearranging and his "Congressional Record", which had premiered earlier this summer elsewhere. Both of these used instruments he invented in addition to Partch's: the zoomoozophone and justrokerods. Although the audience reception was excellent, the group was apparently unprepared to do an encore.
As best as I could tell, the performances were excellent, compared to familiar recordings of "Ring Around the Moon". A slight change was made in the text, substituting "twinkie-winkie" for "itsy-bitsy" after the words "teeny-weenie". Perhaps this was to avoid association with the song about the yellow polka dot bikini, even though that was written about ten years after "Ring". I wonder whether Paul Vance and/or Lee Pockriss got the idea for their title from Partch's text. Does anyone know?
Dean Drummond expects to teach a course at MSU in the spring semester if enough students sign up.

>>> "Jonathan M. Szanto" <jszanto@adnc.com> 09/16 12:05 PM >>>
From: "Jonathan M. Szanto" <jszanto@adnc.com>

Hey, hello everyone!

John Chalmers has asked me to post this to the list, so my
apologies for the few of you that will get it twice (and John
deLaubenfels, drop me a line, as the email addr I have for you
is bouncing.

Anyway, if you haven't noticed:

- Newband is playing concerts on two coasts: New Jersey was on
Sept. 12 and San Fran on Sept. 23.
- Concurrent with the SF concert, Randy Hoffman (another old Partch
hand) and I have produced an exhibition of photographs from the
Harry Partch Archive (see below)
- Newband moved to Montclair State U. in NJ
- I've revamped the Meadows guide to Partch media (cds, books,
videos) and done swell things like put images of the items, linked
to amazon.com for your ease and (maybe) my pennies
- Another update on the "Delusion"/Enclosure 6 upcoming release

All the basic information is on the main page at the site:
<http:/www.corporeal.com/>

Complete info on the Newband/SF concert is at:
<http://www.corporeal.com/nb_news.html>

including a RealAudio clip of the new Dean Drummond piece
"Congressional Record", which they'll be playing in the Bay area.

Also, in honor of Harry, his passing 25 years ago, his time
spent in the Bay area and his corporeality in general, Randy
Hoffman and I have been proud to produce an exhibition of rare
photographs, titled "HARRY PARTCH - I Was a Bum Once Myself".
It will include 35 or so photographs taken from the Harry Partch
Archives and will be a glimpse at his long life of making music
and art, against all odds. It wasn't easy narrowing it down, but
we are pleased with what we think is a wide-ranging portrait of
this singularly artistic human being. The exhibition takes place
at OmniCircus, the gallery/performance space established by Frank
Garvey, whose father, John, conducted major premieres of Harry's
work in the 50's and 60's.

The opening reception for the photo show at the OmniCircus will be
- WEDNESDAY SEPT 22, 5-8pm.
The exhibit will be open from Wed. Sept 22 through Sat. Sept 25,
from 12noon - 5pm. Admission is free to the Partch exhibit and the
opening reception. Randy and I will be at the opening reception,
one or the other of us will most likely be there on the other days.

HARRY PARTCH - I Was a Bum Once Myself
OmniCircus <http://www.omnicircus.com/>
550 Natoma St.
(between 6th & 7th & Mission & Howard, door on Russ St.)
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415)701-0686
($5 parking at 7th on Mission.)

That's all for now, hope this wasn't a burden. If any of you listors
or listees manage to make it to the concert/exhibit, please say hi.
At the concert I should be the one in the bow tie...

Corporeally,
Jon
`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`
Jonathan M. Szanto : Corporeal Meadows - Harry Partch, online.
jszanto@adnc.com : http://www.corporeal.com/
`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`

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