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 ...

Ever heard of an adapted viola? What about a chromalodeon? Or a harmonic canon? They're all instruments invented by avante-garde composer Harry Partch. Partch was a California native who threw out ...

https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.35.2.0172 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/americanmusic.35.2.0172 Copy URL Garvey interviewed in Daniel Atesh Sonneborn ...

Among the dozen members inducted last month into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters were historian Ron Chernow, playwright Terrence McNally, novelist George Saunders and artist Jenny ...

The 'Hobo Composer' Harry Partch was 'irascible but also magnetic' says his biographer, UMKC professor Andrew Granade. American composer Harry Partch lived an unconventional life. A dreamer and a ...

“The great cathedral of modern music, erected in trial and labor and pain through most of the Christian era, is a safe and beautiful sanctuary,” Harry Partch once wrote. “Its one sad aspect is that it ...

I recently attended a concert that included a piece of music by Harry Partch (1901-1974). Some of the attendees, though they were people interested in and aware of contemporary music, had never heard ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For many years, Los Angeles County Museum of Art was a go-to spot and a ...

If I told you there’s a huge bass marimba sitting in one of the rehearsal rooms at the University of Washington School of Music, you might wonder what it sounds like — though you could probably guess.

In a time of terrible homelessness, can we speak of hobo culture and not romanticize the wealthiest cities in our wealthy state that are proving incapable of taking care of our own? But not to speak ...