June 14-15, 2024
Three Dances (1952) HARRY PARTCH
- Samba—A DECENT AND HONORABLE MISTAKE
- Heartbeat Rhythm—RHYTHM OF THE WOMB–MELODY OF THE GRAVE
- Afro-Chinese Minuet—HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
Reið (Raidō)II Ride/Journey JEFFREY HOLMES
First Performance
Progressions HARRY PARTCH
- Intro + Progressions Within One Octave (1942)
- Sonata Dementia: Abstraction & Delusion (1949)
Five Intrusions (1950)
- Study #1 Olympos’ Pentatonic
- The Wind (Ella Young, Lao-tze)
- Study #2 Archytas’ Enharmonic
- The Street (Willard Motley)
- The Waterfall (Ella Young)
— I N T E R M I S S I O N —
LSD: Huxley’s Last Trip—selected scenes ANNE LEBARON
Librettists: Gerd Stern, Ed Rosenfeld, and Anne LeBaron
- Scene 1: Huxley’s Last Trip—Part 1
- Scene 3: Double Helix: Soliloquy No. 1 (a twisted example…)
- Scene 6: Three Lunches: Soliloquy No. 2 (Finnegan’s Wake)
- Scene 8: Mary Meyer and JFK
The Cast (in order of appearance)
- Aldous Huxley SCOTT GRAFF
- Laura Huxley; LSD Trio (Death) AUBREY BABCOCK
- LSD Trio (Love); Jackie Kennedy ANNA SCHUBERT
- LSD Trio (Sex); Marilyn Monroe NELLE ANDERSON
- James Watson; John F. Kennedy DOMINIC DELZOMPO
- Francis Crick; Timothy Leary TODD STRANGE
- Albert Hofmann; Marshall McLuhan JON KEENAN
- Anita Hofmann; Mary Meyer MARIA ELENA ALTANY
The program includes an instrument “petting zoo”: audiences are encouraged to interact with the instruments on stage after the show.
