“Once you get over-the-hill, you really pick up some speed.” Quincy Jones has adopted that aphorism and spread it around — and it most certainly applies to Wadada Leo Smith, who is enjoying [...]
The saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton has been a galvanizing figure in American music for more than 50 years – and at 76, he’s definitely not slowing down. Braxton has two new box [...]
Louis Andriessen, the most widely acclaimed Dutch composer of his generation, died on Thursday, July 1, in a care home in Weesp, North Holland. His death was confirmed by Boosey & Hawkes, his [...]
Jon Hassell, the influential American avant garde composer who invented the global-minded “fourth world” musical aesthetic, has died aged 84. In a statement, his family said the “iconic trumpet [...]
Frederic Rzewski, an American-born composer and pianist who worked in manifold musical genres throughout a career that spanned 60 years, died June 26 in Montiano, Italy. He was 83. For the [...]
Julius Hemphill’s music uses stark, lyrical abstraction and svelte dissonances to confront the vicissitudes of black American life. “I like to make things,” the saxophonist and composer Julius [...]
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Terry Riley decided to stay right where he was, which just so happened to be in Japan. The composer had arrived in the country in February 2020 to do [...]
“I am sitting in a room,” Alvin Lucier’s classic work of sound art, will be performed by 90 artists in honor of his 90th birthday. Alvin Lucier at home in Connecticut. His most famous work [...]
Services like Spotify and Apple Music pulled the business back from the brink. But artists say they can’t make a living. And their complaints are getting louder. The heart of musicians’ critique [...]
During the pandemic, some houses have continued finding ways to make their spaces and performances more environmentally sustainable. La Scala in Milan is now using LED bulbs and smart [...]
