Liner Notes-WILLIAM SCHUMAN: Casey at the Bat

wswebmaster on November 29, 2018

The Poem Nearly one hundred years after its first appearance, Casey at the Bat, the story of a baseball hero who fails at the cru­cial moment, remains a classic of humorous verse. Martin Gardner, who has researched and studied the subject of Casey …

Liner Notes-The Music of Harry Partch

wswebmaster on November 29, 2018

The work that I have been doing these many years parallels much in the attitudes and actions of primitive man. He found sound-magic in the common materials around him. He then proceeded to make the vehicle, the instrument, as visually …

Liner Notes- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

wswebmaster on November 29, 2018

 Few works are as clearly—almost mythically—identified with a musical era as is Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring with the dawn of the “modern” period. As time has passed, and our understanding of the music of the first two decades …