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 ...

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 ...

The Santa Monica Public Library Soundwaves concert series presents a program devoted to the work of Harry Partch on Wednesday May 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Library’s Martin Luther King Jr.

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 ...

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 ...

]The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater will present the GRAMMY Award-winning PARTCH Ensemble on June 26 and 27, 2026. The performances will feature newly constructed replicas of instruments designed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...