Dreamer That Remains / Ballad for Gymnasts [Import]

Harry Partch (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 18, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Composers Recordings
• ASIN: B000005TYU
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,202 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Dreamer That Remains - A Study in Loving, film score for voices, chorus & 15 Partch instruments

2. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes, music for an exhibition of gymnasts for soprano, chorus, traditional & Partch instruments

3. Windsong, film score (revised as 'Daphne of the Dunes')

4. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): The Opening Prolog

5. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): O What Could He Do

6. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): Witch for Water /

7. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): Santa Mystiana the

8. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): Dear Old Alabama

9. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): We Really Love Eac

10. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): Rain!

11. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): To Hell With the G

12. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): Opening Epilogue.

13. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): We'll Sue You for

14. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): Do-lo-do-lo- - -do

15. Water! Water!, intermission for voices, choruses, original & Partch instruments (considered unfinished by Partch): Eighth Epilogue /

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very formitive work for myself as a musican., September 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dreamer That Remains / Ballad for Gymnasts (Audio CD)

As a young, and musically adventurous boy growing up in a rather bland and conservative town in Western Washington, I was blessed to have access to an amazing, and really kind of avant-garde record library started almost by chance by the head of the vocal music program at my high-school. That man, Jeff Mitchell, may have heard vaguely of Harry Partch when he was at school, but probably didn't even realise he had puchased an album of his works when he convinced the school district to fork out some money to buy some amonymous person's record collection. Whether he did or not, he gave me a deep and enduring gift and introduced me to music which was as incredible as it was original and inexplicable. Along with John Coltrane's 'Om' (also found there) Harry Partch's 'The Dreamer That Remains' is among the most important pieces of music in my entire musical universe. I kept a recording of that warped and scratchy record for 18 years until today, when I was pleased to find it for sale on Amazon. It was and is proof positive that true art is Do-It-Yourself, and that the power of the individual mind drives the creative world, not corporations, or Government bureaus. By the way, does Amazon need someone to write online copy?