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07-26-2007, 07:11 AM
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' "Revelation", based on Euripides' "The Bacchae", is a bizarre
conjunction of Americana (trampolinists, gymnasts and a marching band)
and ancient Greek tragedy (masked actors). We see only about seven
minutes' worth of extracts from the original 1960 Illinois production,
as broadcast on American television in 1961, but even these fragments
of grainy black and white footage are enough to show what Partch was
trying to do; and even today, nearly fifty years later, it would be
considered transgressive.'
- Malcolm Tattersall, writing in today's Music & Vision magazine about
'Enclosure 7', the Harry Partch DVD from the American Composers Forum,
featuring several of the instruments Partch built himself.
' "Revelation", based on Euripides' "The Bacchae", is a bizarre
conjunction of Americana (trampolinists, gymnasts and a marching band)
and ancient Greek tragedy (masked actors). We see only about seven
minutes' worth of extracts from the original 1960 Illinois production,
as broadcast on American television in 1961, but even these fragments
of grainy black and white footage are enough to show what Partch was
trying to do; and even today, nearly fifty years later, it would be
considered transgressive.'
- Malcolm Tattersall, writing in today's Music & Vision magazine about
'Enclosure 7', the Harry Partch DVD from the American Composers Forum,
featuring several of the instruments Partch built himself.