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Castor & Pollux - A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini (1931-1933)
Ring Around The Moon
Even Wild Horses - Dance Music for an Absent Drama (excerpted)
[Omitted on this recording: Act 1, Scene 2 - Rhythm of the Womb -- Melody of the Grave (Contrapuntal heart-beat)]
On all of the above:
The Gate 5 Ensemble of Sausalito, conducted by Horace Schwartz
Richard Barnett
Ruita Churchill
Vincent Delgado
Robert Garfias
Henry Jaramillo
Lynn Ludlow
Harry Partch
Jerry Schimmel
Michele Slivka
Allen Smith
Marc Smith
Cover photo by Fred Lyon
Additional Notes: Partch tried valiently to include all of the works from Plectra & Percussion Dances complete on this second edition, as printed on the jacket, but it was not meant to be -- and the phrase "(Not Quite!)" was stamped in red ink over the word "Complete".
This album also had some great liner notes on it (someday I'll get it all here); one section on listening to the disc bears mentioning:
"The FIRST HEARING of this work should be through the best and most powerful playback equipment that is obtainable for the short time necessary. When one judges the work through inadequate playback equipment it is very much as though he were appraising a new painting by the light of a 25-watt bulb twenty paces away in the dead of night."
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