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Name: Harry Partch - The Bewitched (A Dance Satire) LP NM 1973 CRI Experimental Contemporary Classical
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Harry Partch ‎– The Bewitched (A Dance Satire By Harry Partch)

Label: Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI) ‎– CRI SD 304

Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo

Country: US

Released: 1973

Genre: Classical

Style: Contemporary, Experimental

Tracklist

A	Prologue – The Lost Musicians Mix Magic
B1	Scene 1 – Three Undergrads Become Transfigured In A Hong Kong Music Hall
B2	Scene 2 – Exercises In Harmony And Counterpoint Are Tried In A Court Of Ancient Ritual
B3	Scene 3 – The Romancing Of A Pathological Liar Comes To An Inspired End
C1	Scene 4 – A Soul Tormented By Contemporary Music Finds A Humanizing Alchemy
C2	Scene 5 – Visions Fill The Eyes Of A Defeated Basketball Team In The Shower Room
C3	Scene 6 – Euphoria Descends A Sausalito Stairway
C4	Scene 7 – Two Detectives On The Tail Of A Tricky Culprit Turn In Their Badges
D1	Scene 8 – A Court In Its Own Contempt Rises To A Motherly Apotheosis
D2	Scene 9 – A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among The Voteless Women Of Paradise
D3	Scene 10 – The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into A Demonic Descent While At Cocktails

Companies, etc.

Recorded By – Gate 5 Records
Recorded At – University Of Illinois
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Composers Recordings, Inc.
Published By – Music Magazine
Manufactured By – Allentown Record Co. Inc.

Credits

Bass Clarinet – Joseph Firrantello
Cello – Peter Farrell
Chorus – The Chorus Of Lost Musicians
Clarinet – Warren Birkett
Composed By, Supervised By [Production] – Harry Partch
Conductor – John Garvey
Ensemble – The University Of Illinois Musical Ensemble
Koto – Carol Zuckerberg
Liner Notes – Harry Partch
Marimba [Bass] – Warren Smith
Marimba [Diamond] – Danlee Mitchell
Marimba [Eroica], Voice [Male Solo], Leader [Chorus] – William Olson
Mastered By – DBH*
Orchestra – The University Of Illinois Musical Ensemble
Organ [Chromelodeon] – Herbert Bielawa
Painting [Cover] – Cecile Gray Bazelon
Percussion [Boo], Marimba [Bamboo] – Thomas Gauger
Percussion [Cloud Chamber Bowls] – George Andrix
Percussion [Spoils Of War] – Michael Donzella
Photography By [Back Cover Film] – Dong Kingman, Jr.
Piccolo Flute – Charles Delaney
Producer – Carter Harman
Recorded By – Lyle Dahms
Vocals [The Witch] – Freda Schell
Zither [Harmonic Canon (Castor)] – Georgi Mayer
Zither [Harmonic Canon (Pollux)] – Barbara Grammar
Zither [Kithara (Left Side)] – Jan Bach
Zither [Kithara (Right Side)] – Sanford Berry
Zither [Surrogate Kithara], Gong – Jack McKenzie

Notes

A dance-satire featuring musical instruments designed and built by the composer

The Bewitched was commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation and the University of Illinois School of Music.
This release was made possible by a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University.

℗1973 Composers Recordings, Inc.
The music is published by Music Magazine (BMI)

Painting, “Stairway Unto Infinity,” courtesy Robert Schoelkopf Gallery

Recorded by Gate 5 Records at the University of Illinois at the university’s Champaign-Urbana campus in 1957.

Originally released in both a condensed single LP version as well as a complete 2LP version on Gate 5 Records.
Comes in a gatefold sleeve.

Durations:
A 18:28
B 16:31
C 20:00
D 20:52

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Side A label): CRI 340-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): CRI 340-B
Matrix / Runout (Side C label): CRI 340-C
Matrix / Runout (Side D label): CRI 340-D
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched [DBH is boxed]): MP 13 DBH CRI SD 304 A
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched [DBH is boxed]): MP 13 DBH CRI SD 304 B ARC1-9-7H
Matrix / Runout (Side C runout, etched [DBH is boxed]): MP 13 DBH CRI SD 304 C
Matrix / Runout (Side D runout, etched [DBH is boxed]): MP 13 DBH CRI SD 304 D
Rights Society: BMI
Other (Library of Congress #): 73-750240