PARTCH Ensemble: Summer 1955 - NO HOST

DUE TO THE CURFEW IN DTLA THE PERFORMANCES HAVE BEEN MOVED TO SUNDAY AT 11 AM AND 3 PM, AND i CAN'T ATTEND EITHER OF THEM. IF YOU BOUGHT TICKETS, YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN AN EMAIL FROM REDCAT. THEREFORE THIS EVENT IS NO HOST!

FUCK DONALD TRUMP!!!

Let's revisit the Partch Ensemble live at REDCAT in the Disney Concert Hall plex in downtown LA on Friday, June 13. We've seen their yearly concert at REDCAT for the previous 3 years.

Dates: Friday, June 13, 2025, 8:30 PM

Venue: REDCAT (Roy & Edna Disney Cal-Arts Theater)
631 W 2ND ST,
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
+1 (213) 237 2800
redcat@calarts.edu

Tickets: $25.00
https://www.redcat.org/events/2025/partch-ensemble

I suggest you buy tickets ahead of time.

Parking at the Disney Hall Parking structure (entrance on 2nd Street) is $10.

REDCAT has a nice bar and usually features an art exhibit in the lobby, so check those out too!

PARTCH Ensemble—the Grammy Award-winning ensemble specializing in the music of the iconoclastic composer Harry Partch—presents a triple bill of premieres performed on Partch’s extraordinary instruments. This year’s program includes the LA debut of Partch’s five-part Summer 1955, a setting of texts ranging from Psalm 137 and Shakespeare’s “Potion Scene” to Alice in Wonderland’s Adventures, and culminating in the composer’s clarinet arrangement of Ulysses written for jazz great Chet Baker. Composer Evan Ziporyn, described as “intoxicating” (The New York Times), presents the world premiere of Earth Studies, inspired by the visionary work of the DesignEarth architecture team whose texts and images intersect with Partch’s unique soundscape. Stephen James Taylor, known for his film scores, premieres HEAVE HO, bringing together hip hop, minimalism, microtonal, and pop music with Afro-futurism.

The program includes an instrument “petting zoo”: audiences are encouraged to interact with the instruments on stage after the show.
Funny, moving, inventive and insanely theatrical…an unforgettable performance.
San Francisco Chronicle

This performance is supported, in part, by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture as part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan.

Partch Ensemble plays the music of composer Harry Partch using instruments invented by him. Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Partch

PARTCH Ensemble - 2019 Sonata Dementia Album Release Party Documentary:[ https://youtu.be/4wRJUm3ookU](https://youtu.be/4wRJUm3ookU)

Partch Ensemble - "Daphne of the Dunes"
https://youtu.be/6c7utyMPqT4