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Tracklist

The Bewitched, A Dance-Satire	(74:43)
1	Prologue - The Lost Musicians Mix Magic	18:08
2	Scene 1 - Three Undergrads Become Transfigured In A Hong Kong Music Hall	5:30
3	Scene 2 - Exercises In Harmony And Counterpoint Are Tried In A Court Of Ancient Ritual	5:07
4	Scene 3 - The Romancing Of A Pathological Liar Comes To An Inspired End	5:33
5	Scene 4 - A Soul Tormented By Contemporary Music Finds A Humanizing Alchemy	5:39
6	Scene 5 - Visions Fill The Eyes Of A Defeated Basketball Team In The Shower Room	4:20
7	Scene 6 - Euphoria Descends A Sausalito Stairway	4:17
8	Scene 7 - Two Detectives On The Tail Of A Tricky Culprit Turn In Their Badges	5:32
9	Scene 8 - A Court In Its Own Contempt Rises To A Motherly Apotheosis	5:27
10	Scene 9 - A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among The Voteless Women Of Paradise	5:57
11	Scene 10 - The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into A Demonic Descent While At Cocktails	9:18

Credits

• Artwork By [Cover Painting] – Mark Allen
• Artwork By [Graphic Design] – Bernhard Hallstein
• Bass Clarinet – Joseph Firrantello
• Cello – Peter Farrell
• Chorus – The Chorus Of Lost Musicians
• Clarinet – Warren Birkett
• Composed By, Supervised By, Liner Notes – Harry Partch
• Conductor – John Garvey
• Engineer [Remastering, Assistant] – Francis X. Pierce
• Engineer [Remastering] – Charles Harbutt
• Ensemble – The University Of Illinois Musical Ensemble
• Koto – Carol Zuckerberg
• Marimba [Bass] – Warren Smith
• Marimba [Diamond] – Danlee Mitchell
• Marimba [Eroica], Voice, Leader [Chorus] – William Olson
• Organ [Chromelodeon] – Herbert Bielawa
• Other [Art Direction And Production] – Brian Conley
• Percussion [Boo], Marimba [Bamboo] – Thomas Gauger
• Percussion [Cloud Chamber Bowls] – George Andrix
• Percussion [Spoils Of War] – Michael Donzella
• Photography [Harry Partch] – Betty Freeman
• Piccolo Flute – Charles Delaney
• Producer – Carter Harman
• Recorded By – Lyle Dahms
• Remastered By [Digitally] – Joseph R. Dalton
• Vocals [The Witch] – Freda Schell
• Zither [Harmonic Canon] – Barbara Grammar, Georgi Mayer
• Zither [Kithara Left Side] – Jan Bach
• Zither [Kithara Right Side] – Sanford Berry
• Zither [Surrogate Kithara], Gong – Jack McKenzie

Notes

This is a release of the first performance of Harry Partch's dance-satire, which took place at the University of Illinois' Champaign-Urbana campus in 1957.
The performance featured musical instruments designed and built by the composer and played by above mentioned members of the University of Illinois Musical Ensemble.
℗ 1973 & © 1997 Composers Recordings, Inc.

This recording was originally released on Partch's own label, Gate 5, has been previously released in 1990 on CRI as CD754.
It is very important to note that all pre-2005 releases of this recording (except the original Gate 5 release) were released in "Imitation Stereo."
In 2005, New World Records released the first accurate CD of this work, 80624-2, only in MONO, true to the one and only Master Tape (recorded by Lyle Dahms in 1957) of this performance, which was recorded only in "full track mono." I co-produced and engineered this 2005 restoration project for New World Records. I thought it important to not employ any sort of "imitation stereo" program, and finally release the full length CD in original MONO, from the original master tape recorded by Lyle Dahms, meticulously restored in 2005...
Anyone can easily employ any number of "Imitation Stereo" programs available online if so desired. I just thought it wasn't a good idea to force everyone to listen to it that way.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 90438 07542 8
• SPARS Code: ADD

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
none	Harry Partch	The Bewitched ‎(2xLP)	Gate 5 Records	none	US	1958
Issue E	Harry Partch	The Bewitched ‎(LP, RE)	Gate 5 Records	Issue E	US	1962
80624-2	Harry Partch	The Bewitched ‎(CD, Mono, RE, RM)	New World Records	80624-2	US	2005
3CACKLP	Harry Partch	The Bewitched (Excerpted) A Dance Satire ‎(LP, RE)	Cacophonic	3CACKLP	UK	2013
CRI SD 304	Harry Partch	The Bewitched (A Dance Satire By Harry Partch) ‎(2xLP, Album, RE, RM)	Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)	CRI SD 304	US	1973