Field that one, Frank Zappa

A Rolling Stone ad from 1969, as seen in S. Andrew Granade's book Harry Partch: Hobo Composer. Partch's Delusion of the Fury plays this Thursday and Friday at the Lincoln Center Festival, courtesy of Heiner Goebbels and Musikfabrik. The festival website supplies a quick guide to the composer's life and work; Michael Cooper, in the New York Times, has more about the Partch instrumentarium; Russell Platt has a preview in The New Yorker. I will have a review in a future issue, pairing Partch with Ethel Smyth, a renegade of a different sort.