The GATE 5 ENSEMBLE directed by Harry Partch: Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallance Snow, Stephen Tosh.
Rec. in 1964 in Petaluma, California and in 1966 in Venice, California. Original tape edited by Harry Partch and Cecil Charles Spiller.
“San Francisco – a Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties”
Harry Partch – Adapted Viola, voice; Danlee Mitchell – Kithara II; Elizabeth Gentry – Chromelodeon.
Recorded in 1958 in Evanston, Illinois.
Harry Partch – Intoning Voice, Omicron Belly Drum; David Dunn – New Kithara I, Surrogate Kithara; Dennis Dunn – Harmonic Canon III; Randy Hoffman - Omicron Belly Drum; with dubbed-in interludes from the 1950 recording by Harry Partch, Ben and Betty Johnston and Donald Pippin.
Recorded in 1972 in Encinitas and San Diego, California.
The GATE 5 ENSEMBLE (Evanston): Thomas Coleman as “Mac”; Dick Borden, Mervin Britton, Michael Colgrass, Elizabeth Gentry, Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, David Reid, Melvin Wildberger. Jack McKenzie, conductor.
Recorded in 1958 in Evanston, Illinois.