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 33-year-long ...

“UW Music,” the University of Washington School of Music’s concert season, is in full swing and is offering two unusual events this week. First up is a joint concert by violist Melia Watras with her ...

To further intensify COLOR THEORY, PRISM, which is known for its impressive outreach, will present 12 community activities for all ages during the 15-day project-exploratory lectures and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harry Partch was born in Oakland, California. His parents had been Presbyterian missionaries in China who endured the Boxer Rebellion. Two years after his birth, they moved to Arizona to homestead, ...

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 ...

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 ...