Harry Partch Interview

A Closet of Curiosity posted an interesting interview with Harry Partch. The conversation covers a lot of ground, like the fact that he doesn't consider Delusion of the Fury to be an opera because his musicians are onstage with painted bellies. He sees 'opera' as an Italianate term, although he wouldn't mind being lumped into the same operatic category as Mussorgsky (good man). Partch also says that 'according to Bell Laboratories' the average ear can distinguish 600 pitches in an octave.

The interviewer also meets Partch at the theater where Delusion of the Fury is being premiered and catches the horrendous collapse of a kithara on tape, which brings the interview to an end.