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Journal Article
Decoding Harry Partch’s Aesthetic: Satire, Duality, and Water! Water!
2017
Overview
Granade talks about Harry Partch's Water! Water! The show remains a curio in Partch's output, comparable to Benjamin Britten's Paul Bunyan and Aaron Copland's The Second Hurricane for its place in the composer's oeuvre as a piece for student productions. Despite being generally ignored by scholars and its creator, the show was as close as he ever came to writing a Broadway musical. As such, it offers insights into this experimental composer's relationship to American musical culture in the mid-20th century and reveals that his disdain for musical elitism in the classical musical realm extended into the popular one as well. Like all of Partch's theatrical creations, Water! Water! exists in a multitude of tensions.
