Harry Partch: spartiti difficile

Ulysses at the Edge oft he World war ursprünglich ein Stück in gleichtemperierter 12-Ton-Stimmung. Die hier vorliegende Fassung ist das Ergebnis weiterer Revisionen mit einem neuen Vokalpart, der eine...

As early as 1932, Harry Partch composed Psalm 23 for Voice and Adapted Viola. Together with Psalm, 137 By the Rivers of Babylon, the Two Psalms arose. Both settings were performed with other early com...

Partch composed and produced the music for the film Windsong by Madeline Tourtelot in 1958. In this film, the ancient legend of Daphne and Apollo was transferred to the dunes of Lake Michigan - as a r...

Summer 1955 is a curious collection of unrelated compositions that Partch composed or revised around the same time; he likely did not intend it to be performed as a set. The five short pieces are impo...

Harry Partch met soprano Ethel Luening in 1942 and two years later composed this work for her. Initial performances featured Luening as soprano with Partch playing his kithara, and composer Henry Bran...

With Bless This Home, Harry Partch set to music an unpublished poem by the poet, painter and musician Vincenzo Prockelo in 1961. As his last small-scale piece, it was composed as a counterpart to the...

Ring Around the Moon ist eine in jeder Hinsicht ungewöhnliche Komposition, die Partchs satirische und ernsthafte Absichten ineinander vermischt und absurde, unsinnige Einwürfe der Sprechstimme intensi...

In 1961, Harry Partch worked on a re-production of his comprehensive theatrical work Revelation in the Courthouse Park at the University of Illinois. At the suggestion of Charles Pond, the gymnastics...

The last major project of his life, The Dreamer That Remains, was composed while Harry Partch was being filmed from the beginning of his work until the world premiere in 1972. The resulting documentar...

Revelation in the Courthouse Park is a musical setting of the tragedy The Bacchae of Euripides that Harry Partch completed in 1960. The story is set in America, but also in Old Thebes: Partch compares...

In 1950, Harry Partch completed his eleven-part collection, setting to music texts by his literary contemporaries, including Ella Young, Willard Motley, George Leite and Giuseppe Ungaretti, as well as...