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Programming works involving improvisation would be one way to encourage ensembles to make classical music more inclusive. Why won’t big American orchestras improvise? The answer might have [...]

Listen to how artists have explored what it means — and could mean — to be American. A cone of silence hangs over the work of Black composers from Africa and its diaspora. It is not that Black [...]

La Monte Young, the composer who quietly shaped much of contemporary Western music, reaches his last act. THE COMPOSER LA MONTE YOUNG held his 84th birthday party on a drab, rainy Sunday [...]

Like most people these days, the sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. “The Long String [...]

In the midst of a pandemic, those of us who are healthy, safe and able to work from home are of course lucky. Still, time can pass slowly when you’re cooped up in a Manhattan apartment… [...]

Richard Teitelbaum, an electronic artist, keyboardist and composer who combined an interest in non-western musical languages with a focus on experimental practice, died on Thursday at [...]

Krzysztof Penderecki, a Polish composer and conductor whose modernist works jumped from the concert hall to popular culture, turning up in soundtracks for films like “The Exorcist” and “The [...]

Charles Wuorinen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and formidable advocate for modernist music, high culture and the composer’s worth, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 81. His publicist, [...]

Definition: 1) Hutong (simplified Chinese: 胡同; traditional Chinese: 衚衕 or 胡同; pinyin: hútòng) are a type of narrow lane or alleyway in a traditional residential area of a Chinese city, [...]

On this installment of Latitudes, Angel Archer indulged us with extended rituals from a dimly lit corner of kosmische psychedelia and ambient soundscape. Henry Birdsey visits from the East Coast [...]