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''Musica Orbis'' was a Philadelphia, USA, based electric chamber music〔Liz Burrell, "Musica Orbis Performance Expresses Diversity in Electric Chamber Music," Swarthmore Phoenix, Tuesday, April 24, 1973. 〕 quintet performing between 1972 and 1979. Instrumentation included voices, harp, flute, cello, acoustic and electric bass, drums, marimba, vibes, synthesizer, organ, pump organ, knee harp, wooden recorder, bells, hand percussion, Fender Rhodes, and piano. ==Formation and Debut== Musica Orbis was founded in late spring 1972 by singer/songwriter Kitty Brazelton and Tom Stephenson (percussion, cello)〔("Resurrecting Rock: How one student folk band almost made it" ). ''The Phoenix''.〕 on the Swarthmore College campus. Susan Gelletly (keyboards) and Caroline "Caille" Colburn (harp) then joined, followed by David Clark (percussion), James J. Kelly (guitars) and William Pastuszek Jr. (saxophones & bass). The group debuted as a septet on April 15, 1973 in Bond Hall on the Swarthmore College campus. Before their official debut, they opened for jazz-rock Good God and Blue Öyster Cult in Clothier Hall, Swarthmore College in March of 1973. 〔Munsell St. Clair, "Noise, Volume, Variety Dominate Swarthmore Rock-Jazz Festival," Swarthmore Phoenix, Tuesday, March 27, 1973. u〕 In fall 1973 Musica Orbis reduced from septet to quintet with Brazelton, Clark, Colburn, Gelletly and Stephenson remaining. In the winter of 1974-1975, the quintet accompanied the Group Motion Multimedia Dance Theater and later performed at Wilma Project, the Painted Bride, The Bijou, Annenberg Center on the Penn campus. The Irvin R. Glazer Theater Collection, Philadelphia Athenaeum, shows a photo of the old Bandbox Theatre with a marquee: "CONCERT BY MUSICA ORBIS/NEW YEARS DAY FIVE PM". The song "William" was composed in 1975 for Musica Orbis by Kitty Brazelton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Musica Orbis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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