source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:50:22 -0700 Subject: My 1200 cents From: DMB5561719@aol.com While I realize that the current controversy about Harry Partch's music is over instrumentation, the real shame is that money was spent on a transcription for speaker and string quartet. This money could have been well spent on new recordings of his complete works. Last month at Merkin Hall in NYC I heard US Highball as performed by Newband. A true high point in my concert going life. I have only heard the murky recording on Enclosure 2. It would be a real shame if a Kronos version was released before a Newband version. Or if a Newband version on the original instruments was never released at all! I enjoy the Kronos version of Barstow, but do we need yet another version of Barstow or Two Studies (of which Kronos have not released a recording)? * * .. * ... .* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y dmb5561719@aol.com . . . * . . ... I M M P & B i i n k! m u s i c * .. . .. .*.. . .. . ..* . . .. . *. . Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:17 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA17256; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:17:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:17:05 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu