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June 30, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
For a Jacaranda Music all-Harry Partch program, L.A.’s imaginative Partch Ensemble gives the first full performance of “The Wayward,” chronicling the once-hobo composer’s Great Depression years of riding the rails, along with other notable Parch pieces, including a very different take on Castor and Pollux than Salonen’s recent one, with everything played on Partch’s imaginative homemade instruments.
Nov. 11, 2019
Microtonal composer Harry Partch fought to get his work taken seriously. Now his centennial is the occasion of a celebration.
May 20, 2001
Regarding Mark Swed’s piece on Harry Partch (“The Hobo Composer, Resurrected,” June 30): The Partch instruments are not in New Jersey.
July 14, 1996
Commentary: Harry Partch devised a music all his own that virtually died when he did 22 years ago. Now the maverick lives again via CD and a new wave of composers.
June 30, 1996
“It seems inevitable,” Harry Partch complained to The Times in 1969, when his last major work, “Delusion of the Fury,” was given its premiere at UCLA, “that musicians will approach the playing of my instruments as a momentary adventure, like spending the night with a foreign whore.”
May 28, 2001
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 Holzer.
June 17, 2018
The late Harry Partch was a rare individual.
Feb. 24, 1987
Obituaries
Mentored by iconoclast Harry Partch, who divided octaves into more than 30 pitches instead of the traditional 12, Dean Drummond invented instruments such as the zoomoozophone and juststrokerods.
April 22, 2013
The beautiful, zany world of the unclassifiable composer is re-created at REDCAT’s final MicroFest event.
June 1, 2006