Event

Color Theory: Harry Partch Lecture and Instrument Making Workshop

Co-Presented by Nextfab and PRISM Quartet, Inc.

Back to Back Harry Partch Lecture and Instrument Making Workshop

Charles Corey, Ph.D., composer and director of the Harry Partch Instrumentarium at the University of Washington, presents a lecture surveying Partchs compositions, theories, and inventions, including an in-depth look at some of Partchs creative solutions to instrument design. The lecture will be followed by an instrument-making workshop in which participants will use basic hand tools, woods, and metals as they work with Corey and Nextfab staff to construct basic instrument prototypes and brainstorm ideas for their expansion.

Ages ages 15 and up only.

Take a tour of Harry Partch's instruments

Check out the COLOR THEORY trailer

Color Theory Concerts
Co-presented by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and PRISM Quartet, Inc.
6/4/16: PRISM Quartet and So Percussion
6/11/16: PRISM Quartet and Partch

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Major support for Color Theory has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. PRISM Quartet, Inc. also receives support from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, the Amphion Foundation, New Music USA's Cary New Music Performance Fund, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and individual donors.