The Grammy® nominated Partch ensemble returns to REDCAT with Harry Partch’s last version of his classic Barstow (1968) featuring the group’s newly reconstructed BOO, Partch’s wall of microtonal bamboo tubes. Also, settings of Zuni Indian chant in Partch’s chamber music masterpiece Eleven Intrusions, native Alaskan Athabascan Dances by John Luther Adams, Partch’s haunting Dark Brother (to text by Thomas Wolfe), and music from Partch’s 1943 Carnegie Hall debut San Franciscoand The Letter.
“Funny, moving, inventive and insanely theatrical…an unforgettable performance.”
— San Francisco Chronicle