HARRY PARTCH Plectra & Percussion Dances LP 1957 GATE 5

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Harry Partch -- Plectra & Percussion Dances LP

Second Edition - Complete - Without the Cuts of the First Edition

Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre

Played by the Gate 5 Ensemble of Sausalito

1957 US private pressing on Gate 5 Records (catalog # Issue No. 4, black vinyl, red+white+black spiral labels), with 16-page booklet entitled "PHOTOGRAPHS OF INSTRUMENTS BUILT BY HARRY PARTCH AND HEARD IN RECORDED MUSIC".

Gorgeous original second pressing of this phenomenal avant-garde work by Harry Partch, the first recording Partch privately issued on his own Gate 5 Records. This second pressing has music which was left off the 1953 pressing, it also has a red ink stamp of "(Not Quite!)" above the word "Complete" on the back cover, and another red stamp of "(Deleted)" next to Scene 2 of Act 1 of Even Wild Horses.

Contents: Castor & Pollux, "A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini"; Ring Around the Moon, "A Dance for Here and Now" (voice: Lynn Ludlow); Even Wild Horses, "Dance Music for an Absent Drama" (excerpts, voice: Allan Louw)

Performers: Gate 5 Ensemble, Horace Schwartz Conductor. Richard Barnett, Ruita Churchill, Vincent Delgado, Robert Garfias, Henry Jaramillo, Lynn Ludlow, Harry Partch, Jerry Schimmel, Michele Slivka, Allen Smith, Marc Smith.

bio from harrypartch.com: Harry Partch (1901-1974), one of the greatest and most individualistic composers of all time, was not only a great composer, but an innovative theorist who broke through the shackles of many centuries of one tuning system for all of Western music, a music instrument inventor who created dozens of incredible instruments for the performance of his music, and a musical dramatist who created his own texts and dance/theatre extravaganzas based on everything from Greek mythology to his own experiences as a hobo. Between 1930 and 1972, he created one of the most amazing bodies of sensually alluring and emotionally powerful music of the 20th century: music dramas, dance theater, multi-media extravaganzas, vocal music and chamber music---mostly all performed on the instruments he built himself.

CONDITION: Cover VG+ / Vinyl VG+++   cover is intact, still has flap on back, nice shape with mild general wear; booklet is excellent, only slight wear; vinyl is excellent, not much if any playwear, don't appear to be any spindle marks, some clouding/haze from the rice-paper innersleeve, a little very light scuffing, plays well with some minimal surface noise.

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