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MicroFest 2009 season announced

🔗bill_alves <ALVES@...>

2/26/2009 11:32:05 AM

MICROFEST

"Amazing Grace"
The 2009 Festival of Microtonal Music

MicroFest announces its 13th season of exploring the beauty that lies
between the keys of the piano with seven events across Southern
California. Concerts this year will feature Ben Johnston, Harry
Partch, Garry Eister, and Chiyoko Szlavnics, as well as dazzling
performances by Partch, the Calder Quartet, the HMC American Gamelan,
and many others. For more information, including pictures, links, and
music, go to:

www.MicroFest.org

and tune into KPFK.org (90.7 FM) at 11 AM Thursdays preceeding each
concert for MicroFest previews.

sounds you've never heard before

---------------------------------------------

Ben Johnston @ CalArts
Wednesday, March 11 8:00 PM
Roy O. Disney Hall, CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway / Valencia

The microtonal pioneer comes to Southern California for a historic
festival at CalArts, featuring his Suite for Microtonal Piano, the
one-woman opera Calamity Jane, One Man for trombone and percussion,
Alap and Progression for double bass, and the Southern California
premiere of The Tavern for baritone and refretted guitar.

Free Admission

For more information, call 661/255-1050

---------------------------------------------

Calder Quartet @ Colburn
Friday March 20 7:30 PM
Zipper Hall, The Colburn School
200 South Grand Avenue / Los Angeles

The Calder perform Ben Johnston's groundbreaking microtonal Quartet #4
"Amazing Grace" along with Mozart's G minor quintet and Beethoven's
Rasumovsky Op. 59 #1.

Free admission

For more information, call 213/621-1050

---------------------------------------------

Wildflowers: Music by Chiyoko Szlavnics
Friday April 17 8:00 PM
the wulf.
1026 South Santa Fe Ave. #203 / Los Angeles

Otherworldly sounds from the artist-composer Chiyoko Szlavnics,
including a premiere of her Wildflowers.

Free. Donations accepted.

For more information, see thewulf.org

---------------------------------------------

Sonic Alloys II
Sunday May 11 / 8:00 PM
Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College
150 E. 4th St., Claremont

Free admission

Joyful collisions of Indonesian gamelan and Western strings, video and
electronics featuring works of Bill Alves, David Doty, Kyle Gann, and
Lou Harrison with the Euphoria string quartet, pianist Aron Kallay,
and the HMC American Gamelan.

For more information, call 909/607-4170.

---------------------------------------------

SLEEP: A S'real S'rvey of the Nightscape by Garry Eister

Two Performances:
Wednesday May 27 8:00 PM
Pierce College Performing Arts Building
6201 Winnetka Ave / Woodland Hills
Donation $15/10. For more information call 818/719-6476

Friday June 5 8:00 PM
Cal Poly Pomona, Music Recital Hall, building 24
3801 West Temple Avenue / Pomona
$7. For more information call 909/869-3554

A piece of music-theater for storyteller, dancers, video puppets and a
chamber ensemble of various kinds of guitars and percussion, including
a resonator guitar fretted in just intonation and a quarter-tone
guitar chorus. Dreams are the subjects of SLEEP, and the piece draws
from variety shows, dance recitals, poetry readings, traditional
theater, radio theater, world and classical music. Occasionally, the
music melts.

---------------------------------------------

Partch Dark / Partch Light
Friday and Saturday May 29 & 30 8:30 PM
REDCAT Theater in Disney Hall 631 W. Second St. Los Angeles
$25/$20 students & seniors
$15 CalArts students/faculty/staff
REDCAT box office 213/237-2800 www.redcat.org

Harry Partch was famous for his multihued, many-splendored musical
personalities — from contemplative to whimsical, from darkly brooding
to achingly hilarious. The ensemble directed by John Schneider
continues its multimedia survey of the one-of-a-kind American composer
and raconteur with a program that features the out-and-out zaniness of
Yankee Doodle Fantasy; the forlorn and beautiful Eleven Intrusions;
the intensely anguished Dark Brother (a setting of Thomas Wolfe's
"God's Lonely Man"); and the cheerful loopiness of Two Settings from
Finnegans Wake and O Frabjous Day! (The Jabberwock). Also: a rare
screening of Madeline Tourtelot's art-house film Windsong (1958). And,
as always, the fantastic array of Partch's custom-built microtonal
instruments.

"Talk about exhilaration...Wow and triple wow!" — Alan Rich

"Best of 2008 - The Artists' Artists" — Artforum

🔗caleb morgan <calebmrgn@...>

2/26/2009 12:18:49 PM

not to be snarky, but the way you word it,
it sounds like Partch had come back from
the dead!

On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:32 PM, bill_alves wrote:

> MICROFEST
>
> "Amazing Grace"
> The 2009 Festival of Microtonal Music
>
> MicroFest announces its 13th season of exploring the beauty that lies
> between the keys of the piano with seven events across Southern
> California. Concerts this year will feature Ben Johnston, Harry
> Partch, Garry Eister, and Chiyoko Szlavnics, as well as dazzling
> performances by Partch, the Calder Quartet, the HMC American Gamelan,
> and many others. For more information, including pictures, links, and
> music, go to:
>
> www.MicroFest.org
>
> and tune into KPFK.org (90.7 FM) at 11 AM Thursdays preceeding each
> concert for MicroFest previews.
>
> sounds you've never heard before
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Ben Johnston @ CalArts
> Wednesday, March 11 8:00 PM
> Roy O. Disney Hall, CalArts
> 24700 McBean Parkway / Valencia
>
> The microtonal pioneer comes to Southern California for a historic
> festival at CalArts, featuring his Suite for Microtonal Piano, the
> one-woman opera Calamity Jane, One Man for trombone and percussion,
> Alap and Progression for double bass, and the Southern California
> premiere of The Tavern for baritone and refretted guitar.
>
> Free Admission
>
> For more information, call 661/255-1050
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Calder Quartet @ Colburn
> Friday March 20 7:30 PM
> Zipper Hall, The Colburn School
> 200 South Grand Avenue / Los Angeles
>
> The Calder perform Ben Johnston's groundbreaking microtonal Quartet #4
> "Amazing Grace" along with Mozart's G minor quintet and Beethoven's
> Rasumovsky Op. 59 #1.
>
> Free admission
>
> For more information, call 213/621-1050
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Wildflowers: Music by Chiyoko Szlavnics
> Friday April 17 8:00 PM
> the wulf.
> 1026 South Santa Fe Ave. #203 / Los Angeles
>
> Otherworldly sounds from the artist-composer Chiyoko Szlavnics,
> including a premiere of her Wildflowers.
>
> Free. Donations accepted.
>
> For more information, see thewulf.org
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Sonic Alloys II
> Sunday May 11 / 8:00 PM
> Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College
> 150 E. 4th St., Claremont
>
> Free admission
>
> Joyful collisions of Indonesian gamelan and Western strings, video and
> electronics featuring works of Bill Alves, David Doty, Kyle Gann, and
> Lou Harrison with the Euphoria string quartet, pianist Aron Kallay,
> and the HMC American Gamelan.
>
> For more information, call 909/607-4170.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> SLEEP: A S'real S'rvey of the Nightscape by Garry Eister
>
> Two Performances:
> Wednesday May 27 8:00 PM
> Pierce College Performing Arts Building
> 6201 Winnetka Ave / Woodland Hills
> Donation $15/10. For more information call 818/719-6476
>
> Friday June 5 8:00 PM
> Cal Poly Pomona, Music Recital Hall, building 24
> 3801 West Temple Avenue / Pomona
> $7. For more information call 909/869-3554
>
> A piece of music-theater for storyteller, dancers, video puppets and a
> chamber ensemble of various kinds of guitars and percussion, including
> a resonator guitar fretted in just intonation and a quarter-tone
> guitar chorus. Dreams are the subjects of SLEEP, and the piece draws
> from variety shows, dance recitals, poetry readings, traditional
> theater, radio theater, world and classical music. Occasionally, the
> music melts.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Partch Dark / Partch Light
> Friday and Saturday May 29 & 30 8:30 PM
> REDCAT Theater in Disney Hall 631 W. Second St. Los Angeles
> $25/$20 students & seniors
> $15 CalArts students/faculty/staff
> REDCAT box office 213/237-2800 www.redcat.org
>
> Harry Partch was famous for his multihued, many-splendored musical
> personalities — from contemplative to whimsical, from darkly brooding
> to achingly hilarious. The ensemble directed by John Schneider
> continues its multimedia survey of the one-of-a-kind American composer
> and raconteur with a program that features the out-and-out zaniness of
> Yankee Doodle Fantasy; the forlorn and beautiful Eleven Intrusions;
> the intensely anguished Dark Brother (a setting of Thomas Wolfe's
> "God's Lonely Man"); and the cheerful loopiness of Two Settings from
> Finnegans Wake and O Frabjous Day! (The Jabberwock). Also: a rare
> screening of Madeline Tourtelot's art-house film Windsong (1958). And,
> as always, the fantastic array of Partch's custom-built microtonal
> instruments.
>
> "Talk about exhilaration...Wow and triple wow!" — Alan Rich
>
> "Best of 2008 - The Artists' Artists" — Artforum
>
>
>

🔗chrisvaisvil@...

2/26/2009 12:36:04 PM

Could be why its sounds you never heard before.
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

-----Original Message-----
From: caleb morgan <calebmrgn@yahoo.com>

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:18:49
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [tuning] MicroFest 2009 season announced

not to be snarky, but the way you word it,
it sounds like Partch had come back from
the dead!

On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:32 PM, bill_alves wrote:

> MICROFEST
>
> "Amazing Grace"
> The 2009 Festival of Microtonal Music
>
> MicroFest announces its 13th season of exploring the beauty that lies
> between the keys of the piano with seven events across Southern
> California. Concerts this year will feature Ben Johnston, Harry
> Partch, Garry Eister, and Chiyoko Szlavnics, as well as dazzling
> performances by Partch, the Calder Quartet, the HMC American Gamelan,
> and many others. For more information, including pictures, links, and
> music, go to:
>
> www.MicroFest.org
>
> and tune into KPFK.org (90.7 FM) at 11 AM Thursdays preceeding each
> concert for MicroFest previews.
>
> sounds you've never heard before
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Ben Johnston @ CalArts
> Wednesday, March 11 8:00 PM
> Roy O. Disney Hall, CalArts
> 24700 McBean Parkway / Valencia
>
> The microtonal pioneer comes to Southern California for a historic
> festival at CalArts, featuring his Suite for Microtonal Piano, the
> one-woman opera Calamity Jane, One Man for trombone and percussion,
> Alap and Progression for double bass, and the Southern California
> premiere of The Tavern for baritone and refretted guitar.
>
> Free Admission
>
> For more information, call 661/255-1050
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Calder Quartet @ Colburn
> Friday March 20 7:30 PM
> Zipper Hall, The Colburn School
> 200 South Grand Avenue / Los Angeles
>
> The Calder perform Ben Johnston's groundbreaking microtonal Quartet #4
> "Amazing Grace" along with Mozart's G minor quintet and Beethoven's
> Rasumovsky Op. 59 #1.
>
> Free admission
>
> For more information, call 213/621-1050
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Wildflowers: Music by Chiyoko Szlavnics
> Friday April 17 8:00 PM
> the wulf.
> 1026 South Santa Fe Ave. #203 / Los Angeles
>
> Otherworldly sounds from the artist-composer Chiyoko Szlavnics,
> including a premiere of her Wildflowers.
>
> Free. Donations accepted.
>
> For more information, see thewulf.org
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Sonic Alloys II
> Sunday May 11 / 8:00 PM
> Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College
> 150 E. 4th St., Claremont
>
> Free admission
>
> Joyful collisions of Indonesian gamelan and Western strings, video and
> electronics featuring works of Bill Alves, David Doty, Kyle Gann, and
> Lou Harrison with the Euphoria string quartet, pianist Aron Kallay,
> and the HMC American Gamelan.
>
> For more information, call 909/607-4170.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> SLEEP: A S'real S'rvey of the Nightscape by Garry Eister
>
> Two Performances:
> Wednesday May 27 8:00 PM
> Pierce College Performing Arts Building
> 6201 Winnetka Ave / Woodland Hills
> Donation $15/10. For more information call 818/719-6476
>
> Friday June 5 8:00 PM
> Cal Poly Pomona, Music Recital Hall, building 24
> 3801 West Temple Avenue / Pomona
> $7. For more information call 909/869-3554
>
> A piece of music-theater for storyteller, dancers, video puppets and a
> chamber ensemble of various kinds of guitars and percussion, including
> a resonator guitar fretted in just intonation and a quarter-tone
> guitar chorus. Dreams are the subjects of SLEEP, and the piece draws
> from variety shows, dance recitals, poetry readings, traditional
> theater, radio theater, world and classical music. Occasionally, the
> music melts.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Partch Dark / Partch Light
> Friday and Saturday May 29 & 30 8:30 PM
> REDCAT Theater in Disney Hall 631 W. Second St. Los Angeles
> $25/$20 students & seniors
> $15 CalArts students/faculty/staff
> REDCAT box office 213/237-2800 www.redcat.org
>
> Harry Partch was famous for his multihued, many-splendored musical
> personalities — from contemplative to whimsical, from darkly brooding
> to achingly hilarious. The ensemble directed by John Schneider
> continues its multimedia survey of the one-of-a-kind American composer
> and raconteur with a program that features the out-and-out zaniness of
> Yankee Doodle Fantasy; the forlorn and beautiful Eleven Intrusions;
> the intensely anguished Dark Brother (a setting of Thomas Wolfe's
> "God's Lonely Man"); and the cheerful loopiness of Two Settings from
> Finnegans Wake and O Frabjous Day! (The Jabberwock). Also: a rare
> screening of Madeline Tourtelot's art-house film Windsong (1958). And,
> as always, the fantastic array of Partch's custom-built microtonal
> instruments.
>
> "Talk about exhilaration...Wow and triple wow!" — Alan Rich
>
> "Best of 2008 - The Artists' Artists" — Artforum
>
>
>

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@...>

2/26/2009 3:37:39 PM

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "bill_alves" <ALVES@...> wrote:
>
> MICROFEST
>
> "Amazing Grace"
> The 2009 Festival of Microtonal Music

Wow, killer lineup. Maybe I'll come down. Will there be
lectures also or just concerts?

-Carl

🔗bill_alves <ALVES@...>

2/26/2009 4:10:02 PM

It's possible that there will be other events associated with Ben
Johnston's residency at CalArts. Lauren Pratt would know the details
(lpratt at calarts dot edu). I don't know of any other lectures. The
Partch concerts (Partch is the name of the ensemble, for those who
didn't figure that out) have sold out quickly in the past, so it would
be worth buying those tickets well in advance.

Also, if anyone wants to be added to the MicroFest snailmail list,
please send me your address.

Bill

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <carl@...> wrote:
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "bill_alves" <ALVES@> wrote:
> >
> > MICROFEST
> >
> > "Amazing Grace"
> > The 2009 Festival of Microtonal Music
>
> Wow, killer lineup. Maybe I'll come down. Will there be
> lectures also or just concerts?
>
> -Carl
>