When stories of gay life in 1950s San Francisco get told, Harry Partch does not feature prominently. This may be because Partch is an iconoclastic figure in many respects other than his sexuality. By ...

Partch describes The Wayward as ‘a collection of musical compositions based on the spoken and written words of hobos and ...

In February at the Grammy Awards, she surpassed Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Frank Sinatra to become the first artist to ever win Album of the Year honors for the fourth time. She also took home the ...

Interview with musician Harry Partch conducted by Molly Saltman for the "Art and Artists" radio program which was broadcast on KPAL radio station in Palm Springs, California. Harry Partch and Molly ...

Iconoclast composer Harry Partch—in discussing his late masterwork, Delusion of the Fury—stated in his notes: “Words cannot proxy for the experience of knowing—of seeing and hearing.” Indeed, had you ...

The Dreamer That Remains is a documentary produced by Betty Freeman and directed by Stephen Pouliot in 1972. Here is the director’s original cut along with his commentary. If you’ve never seen Partch ...

I attended “Musical Intersections: Toronto 2000,” the millennial mega-musicology conference in that city a few weeks ago. Less exciting than skinny-dipping, I’ll readily admit, but a big high point ...

If you take four slabs of wood, each the size of, say, a coffin lid, and cushion each one atop a wooden resonance chamber as large as a piano cabinet, what you end up with may look like a carpenter’s ...

This three-part work, which Harry Partch called a “satyr play," is eccentric even by the standards of the maverick Californian. Performed for the first time since 1953 John Schneider directs the ...

SAN DIEGO — A treasure trove of unique musical instruments invented and built by pioneering composer Harry Partch between 1930 and 1972 were quietly returned to San Diego last week, ending a ...

On Thursday November, 7 at 7:30 p.m., the Soundwaves new music series at the Santa Monica Public Library welcomes John Schneider and TJ Troy of the Grammy-winning Partch ensemble to the Martin Luther ...

Danlee Mitchell would have earned acclaim if he only excelled as a first-rate orchestral percussionist, or as a consummate music educator, or as the leader of a pioneering ensemble that blazed new ...