 A private group of sponsors sent Partch to New York in 1933, where he gave solo performances and won the support of composers Roy Harris, Charles Seeger, Henry Cowell, Howard Hanson, Otto Luening, Walter Piston, and Aaron Copland.Partch unsuccessfully applied for Guggenheim grants in 1933 and 1934.The Carnegie Corporation of New York granted him $1500 so he could do research in England.