If one is a devotee of the rarified music of American composer Harry Partch, then there are many reasons to love New World Records' retread of his classic 1957 University of Illinois recording of the "Dance Satire" The Bewitched. This is one of Partch's longest continuous works of music and perhaps the most successful realization of his ideas about ritual theater, which he hoped in vain to make obsolete the "music drama" of Richard Wagner, to be produced and recorded during Partch's own lifetime. Indeed, The Bewitched has ...
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If one is a devotee of the rarified music of American composer Harry Partch, then there are many reasons to love New World Records' retread of his classic 1957 University of Illinois recording of the "Dance Satire" The Bewitched. This is one of Partch's longest continuous works of music and perhaps the most successful realization of his ideas about ritual theater, which he hoped in vain to make obsolete the "music drama" of Richard Wagner, to be produced and recorded during Partch's own lifetime. Indeed, The Bewitched has an almost Wagnerian scale, but is wildly different in just about every other way. To what extent can be gauged simply by mentally visualizing one of Partch's characteristic scene settings: "Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room."The Bewitched serves as the fourth and final volume in New World's revamped Harry Partch Collection, which began after it absorbed the series from the disbanded CRI label. Whereas earlier volumes in the New World series...
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Fair. Ex-Library rental. Disc(s) are professionally cleaned and may contain only light scratches that do not effect functionality. Includes disc(s), case, booklet, and back artwork. Disc(s), case, booklet, and back artwork may contain library/security stickers and ink writing. Case and artwork may show some wear. Case may not be an original jewel case. All disc(s) are authentic.
