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 | | John Schneider — guitarist, composer, baritone, microtonal guru (and host of KPFK’s Global Village) — put together a concert mostly of works Partch composed early on for himself to, er, sing, and delivered a pretty good facsimile of the old boy’s stentorian growl. |
 | | Some of Partch’s instruments were on hand: originals, re-creations and, in one case, a keyboard programmed to reproduce the 43-tone scale of the original Chromelodeon; the performers, members of Schneider’s “Just Strings,” managed their exotic gadgetry with appealing skill. |
 | | As long as there are John Schneiders to re-create passably the sounds of Partch — like all those jazz bands around claiming to rekindle the sounds of Ellington — we’ll have a tenuous grip on this unique byway in the annals of American innovation. |
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