MICROFEST 2007! in Southern California

MICROFEST 2007
Festival of Microtonal Music
10th anniversary!
http://www.microfest.org/

Heavy Metal! Sunday May 6 / 8:00 PM
Pomona College, Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, corner of Fourth and College,
Claremont California
Microtonal electric guitars meet the metal gongs of the Javanese gamelan in works by Bill
Alves, John Schneider, and Lou Harrison. Dedicated to the memory of Ron George.
Free. For more information, call 909/607-4170

James Tenney with Strings--Tuesday May 8
8:00 pm Pierce College, Performing Arts Building, 6201 Winnetka Ave. Woodland Hills
California
Just Strings and friends perform the late American composer's masterwork Glissade for
low strings and tape delay, plus works for six electric guitars, a quintet for Partch
Diamond Marimba and string quartet, and Marc Sabat's tribute for twelve double basses.
$15/10 donation at the door. For more information, call 818/719-6476

The Follies of Dr. Placebo--Saturday/Sunday May 26 & 27
8:30 pm The Folly Bowl, 1601 East Loma Alta Dr., Altadena California
An Anaphorian Shadow play without dialogue inquiring into the future of healing gone
awry, by Kraig Grady (main director) and Roger Mexico (theatrical director).
$10. For more information, call 323/258-3260 and see anaphoria.com/shadow.html

Partch "On the Road"--Wednesday May 30
8:30 pm REDCAT Theater in Disney Hall, 621 W. Second St. Los Angeles California
Tales of travel and exile from the one-time hobo and musical iconoclast Harry Partch live
on his unique instruments, together with his filmed performance of US Highball, a musical
account of riding the rails during the Depression.
$20/16. For more information, call 213/237-2800 and see www.redcat.org

Cat Lamb: "Alchemy/Bloom"--Saturday/Sunday June 2 & 3
8:00 pm Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena California
The music of retuned string instruments enmeshing the very quiet as well as the very
violent, lingering between glacial drifts, the quality of harmony where masses coalesce.
$10/5. For more information, call 626/792-5101 and see www.catlamb.com

Friday July 20: "Partch" at Grand Performances
12:00 noon (1 hour show) and 8:00 pm (full concert) California Plaza, 300-350 S. Grand
Ave. Los Angeles California
Music by this wonderful American eccentric performed on his famed Cloud Chamber
Bowls, Harmonic Canons, giant Bass Marimba, Diamond Marimba, Adapted Guitars,
Kithara, etc....Hitchhiker graffiti, Lewis Carroll, dance music, and more.
Free. For more information, see www.grandperformances.org