source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:10:02 -0800 Subject: Re: Partch documentary From: alves@osiris.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves) >I saw a possibly incorrect reference to a 1940's >newsreel documentary about a "Harry Patch" (sic) >called "A New Note In Music " in an "underground" >music magazine Jonathan Glasier brought back from >the meeting in El Paso. Does anybody have any further >details about this. I forgot to write down the naem of of the Zine >but the date was Jan/Feb 1985. At New Music America in Los Angeles in 1985 I saw a 1940s newsreel about Harry Partch. It was at a showing of rare music videos. I don't know if it's the same one. As I recall, it was short, done as a kind of novelty filler that is still familiar to viewers of local news. The film included bits of a performance and some close-ups of some of the instruments. If I remember right, there was also a newsreel about John Cage's MOMA percussion concert in the 1940s (I seem to remember the title "Music of the Future!" or something). There was also a "rare color version" of a short psychedelic music video (to use an anachronism) the Beatles did for Strawberry Fields Forever. I may still have the program -- I'll take a look. Bill ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Bill Alves email: alves@hmc.edu ^ ^ Harvey Mudd College URL: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/ ^ ^ 301 E. Twelfth St. (909)607-4170 (office) ^ ^ Claremont CA 91711 USA (909)621-8360 (fax) ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 02:51 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA18545; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 02:52:40 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA18531 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA27351; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:52:32 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:52:32 -0800 Message-Id: <961119203932_1420043881@emout20.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu