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 ...

Today the University of Washington is scheduled to receive a collection of unique instruments created by avant-garde composer/inventor Harry Partch from 1930 to 1974 (the year of Partch’s death). They ...

Harry Partch (1901-1974), one of the greatest and most individualistic composers of all time, was not only a great composer, but an innovative theorist who broke through the shackles of many centuries ...

If there were a musical equivalent of alternative history writing, Harry Partch would be its best-known author. A hobo in his teen years during the 1920s, Partch grew up to be one of the twentieth ...

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 ...

PARTCH Ensemble, specializing in the music of iconoclastic composer Harry Partch, debuts newly constructed custom-built replicas of instruments designed by Partch in their annual survey of his music.

The seventh installment of this multimedia biography of experimental artist and instrument inventor Harry Partch stands as an epic tribute to his greatest achievements and offers a small glimpse into ...

Harry Partch in his studio in Venice, CA, 1965/66 (Pic attributed to W. Gedney, courtesy of the Harry Partch Estate Archives) George Grella celebrates the life and work of cult U..S. composer Harry ...