The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2

Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston, Illinois) (U.S. Highball); Harry Partch, Danlee Mitchell, Elizabeth Gentry (San Francisco); Harry Partch, David Dunn, Dennis Dunn, Randy Hoffman, with dubbed-in interludes from the 1950 recording by Harry Partch, Ben and Betty Johnston, and Donald Pippin (The Letter); The Harry Partch Ensemble, Danlee Mitchell, music director (Barstow); The Gate 5 Ensemble, Harry Partch, director (And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma) Harry Partch's compositions of the 1940s－and to some extent his work in general－have remained until recently an unwritten chapter in the history of American music. And yet it was these very pieces－the collection of four works he would later collectively entitle The Wayward－that brought him to the attention of the New York musical world. His concert of these pieces for the League of Composers (April 22, 1944) established for him a small but permanent reputation as a musical maverick who had wandered off well-worn tracks and had develop