[silence] Mode Bulletin 5.08

[Brian Brandt]

  Welcome to Mode's Fifth Bulletin of 2008. 


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  NEW ON MODE FOR MARCH:  

Mode 195

LOU HARRISON: Por Gitaro: Suites for Tuned Guitars
John Schneider, guitars
with Just Strings: T.J. Troy, Gene Sterling and Erin Barnes, percussion


Ditone Set (1940, rev. 1978)
First recording of reconstructed guitar version
Serenade for Guitar (1978)
Suite No.1 (1978-92)
Suite No.2 (1958-2002)
Suite for National Steel Guitar (2003)
first recording

with BONUS TRACKS
In Honor of the Divine Mister Handel (1991)
for guitar and gamelan
HMC American Gamelan, Director: Bill Alves

1981 Interview about the guitar with Lou Harrison and John Schneider


. Even though Lou Harrison rhapsodized about the "dulcet tones"of the 
guitar, for much of his career he refused to write for it. The problem 
was that the guitar's straight, fixed frets resulted in the tuning 
system known as equal temperament, while Harrison preferred the 
crystalline purity of harmony found in the types of tuning known as just 
intonation. In the 1970s, Harrison learned of a guitar with removable 
fingerboards, allowing the player to simply swap out fingerboards 
refretted with different tunings.
. Energized by this innovation, Harrison completed the first works for 
just-intoned guitar: the Serenade for Guitar and Optional Percussion in 
1978.
. He began the next work in the series, the Ditone Suite, but grew 
impatient trying to acquire the necessary fingerboards. Two and a half 
movements into the suite, he reluctantly turned away from his ambitious 
guitar project, adapting the Ditone Suite movements for his String 
Quartet Set.
. In 1981, the guitarist John Schneider met with Harrison and played his 
first arrangements of his harp works for just intonation guitar. With 
Harrison's authorization and encouragement, Schneider began adapting 
some of Harrison's other works into suites.
. This is the first complete recording of the reconstructed Suites and 
of the Ditone Set.
. The first recording of In Honor of the Divine Mister Handel in the 
version for guitar and gamelan.
. The recordings were made in Harrison's straw bale house in Joshua 
Tree, California, where the house's main hall was intended for musical 
performances.
. Latin Grammy^(TM) nominated guitarist, composer, author and 
broadcaster John Schneider is a specialist in contemporary music, and 
Director of the ensembles Just Strings, Partch, and founding artistic 
director of MicroFest. His weekly radio program The Global Village can 
be heard at www.kpfk.org.
. Liner notes by Bill Alves.

Also by Lou HARRISON on mode records:
Marriage at the Eiffel Tower; Mass to St. Anthony; Easter Cantata; other 
works -- California Parallèle Ensemble, Nicole Paiement, conductor.  
(mode 122)
http://moderecords.com/catalog/122harrison.html

For Strings - Suite No. 2 for Strings; Suite for Symphonic Strings; 
Concerto for Pipa with String Orchestra; Bits and Pieces. Wu Man, pipa; 
The New Professionals Orchestra, London; Rebecca Miller, conductor.  
(mode 140)
http://moderecords.com/catalog/140harrison.html



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