Harry Partch (1901-1974): The Bewitched, a Dance Satire (1955)

I. Prologue: The Lost Musicians Mix Magic
II. Scene 1: Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall [18:07]
III. Scene 2: Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual [23:36]
IV. Scene 3: The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End [28:43]
V. Scene 4: A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy [34:15]
VI. Scene 5: Visions Fill the Eyes of the Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room [39:55]
VII. Scene 6: Euphoria Descends a Sausalito Stairway [44:14]
VIII. Scene 7: Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges [48:31]
IX. Scene 8: A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apotheosis [54:01]
X. Scene 9: A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise [59:27]
XI. Scene 10: The Cognoscenti are Plunged into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails/Epilogue [1:05:23]

The Witch, Freda Schell
Members of University of Illinois Musical Ensemble diretti da John Garvey.

Cover image: LED-embedded moon light designed by Nosigner (Eisuke Tachikawa).