Johnny Reinhard - ODYSSEUS

American Festival of Microtonal Music Johnny Reinhard - Director ODYSSEUS by Johnny Reinhard - World Premiere May 22, 1997 Columbia University’s St. Paul’s Chapel, NYC ODYSSEUS was composed for cellist Dave Eggar and an ensemble of 55 artists. It was choreographed by Christina Coppola. The 45 minute compositions is improvised throughout, following the linear progression of Homer’s Odysseus and his surviving Greek compatriots in their fabled journey home to Ithaca. Composer Johnny Reinhard directs the cast in the guise of Homer, The music follows a tuning philosophy of polymicrotonalism. Each instrument is in a different tuning system, which enables an end result that loses the ferocity of dissonance, only to enter a realm where there is no such a thing as a wrong note. This premiere performance in Columbia University’s St. Paul’s Chapel in New York was recorded on Super VHS tape by Joe Bly, upon the recommendation of Tom O’Horgan, who performs here as the sou