Taking Partch
Twenty-five years after experimental composer and instrument builder Harry Partch died, his music and ideas have found a living legacy in the Bay Area
That's a fitting legacy for Harry Partch, who didn't want people to follow in his footsteps so much as walk proudly in their own. "If anyone calls himself a pupil of mine," Partch once said, "I will happily strangle him. But this is simply the expression of an attitude, and -- amazingly -- in its deeper meaning it is an expression of hope."
Beth Custer's Vinculum Symphony will be performed Thursday, Sept. 2, at 7:30 p.m. and Friday through Sunday, Sept. 3-5, at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission (at Third Street), S.F. Tickets are $13-15 ($10 for the Sept. 2 performance). Newband presents "Harry Partch and His Legacy" Thursday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center; tickets are $13-15. Partch instruments will be on display Sept. 21-23, and experimental instruments curated by Custer will be on display throughout the "Sounds Like Art" festival from Aug. 28 to Nov. 7. Call 978-2700 for more information.
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