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...Harry Partch spent all day moving his homemade orchestra from his home in an abandoned chicken hatchery in Petaluma to the ballroom of San Francisco's Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Not until evening, when delegates to the Ameri can Symphony Orchestra League's convention began drifting into the room, were all the instruments ready. There stood the "Spoils of War," the "Sur rogate Kithara," the "Harmonic Canons I and II," the "Chromelodeon" -and there stood Harry Partch, quietly examining the tolerant smiles that have confronted him all his life. "This re minds me of an old Chinese proverb " Partch...
...what you accuse me of being.' " Having pleasantly confessed to whatever musical eccentricities his audience had already convicted him of, Partch sat down at Harmonic Canon II and began to play, aided by a disciple who had flown down from Tacoma, Wash., for the occasion. "You exclamation-point Jim," Partch chanted to the rhythm of the Surrogate Kithara's ponderous clucks, "get your semicolon asterisk out o this yard." It was music the likes of which few in the audience had heard before, but it forced upon everyone in the Palace a new and respectful opinion of Harry...
Your Virgil Partch cartoon amused me greatly, because it is not so far from the truth. I watched my mother hook up her electric blanket to the overhead light in one of the permanent tents at Yosemite National Park last summer with great howls of derision, and found at 3 a.m. that the extra warmth was quite welcome...
Among coming selections are cartoons by Otto Soglow, Rube Goldberg, Virgil Partch, and Charles M. Schultz, creator of "Peanuts." Three guesses who Mr. Schultz proposed to head Radcliffe. (Hint: "Peanuts" has three main characters.) David Royce will follow...
...three critics, one was a bit bewitched, one bothered and one bewildered. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "[Partch's] score-fragmentary, subdued, elusive-vastly enhanced the . . . ominous tension of the tragedy." The Oakland Tribune man found it all "rather horrendous, and Sophocles came out low man on the totem pole." Wrote the San Francisco Call-Bulletin's critic: "There is both solid merit and miscalculation . . . judge it for yourself...