Harry Partch was born in Oakland, California. His parents had been Presbyterian missionaries in China who endured the Boxer Rebellion. Two years after his birth, they moved to Arizona to homestead ...
found Waits stretching out. Trading his old modes for a junkyard playground where the influences of Captain Beefheart, Harry Partch, Kurt Weill, Thelonious Monk, Ennio Morricone, Ken Nordine ...
Brennan’s passion for experimental music like Captain Beefheart and Harry Partch began affecting his songwriting almost immediately, which led to the next tip that Waits passed on in the interview.
“I often thought of their music as related to the music of Meredith Monk or even Moondog and Harry Partch, but there was something so individual and so mystical about it that it was hard to quantify.
The Burien Severe Weather Shelter is calling on the community to support its efforts to provide essential resources and hospitality to neighbors in need during harsh winter conditions. Operated by ...
San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has ...
The 1930s led to a rise of labor unions in motion pictures as in other industries such as the Screen Actors Guild, which was formed in 1933. Animators of Fleischer Studios went on strike in 1937 when ...
1 Department of Neurosurgery Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 2 Chongqing Key Laboratory of Child Neurodevelopment and Cognitive Disorders, Chongqing, China ...