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Jon Gibson, Minimalist Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 80 Best known for his long association with Philip Glass, Mr. Gibson also worked with Steve Reich, Terry Riley and La Monte Young as well [...]

Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music Yotam Haber’s “Estro Poetico-Armonico III” combines live singing with archival recordings of cantors. Since early in his career, Yotam [...]

Jon Gibson, a composer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and collaborative musician who had a profound effect on the creation and dissemination of what would come to be known as “minimalist” [...]

Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision Sarah Hennies’s highly personal explorations of “queer and trans identity, love, intimacy and psychoacoustics” are increasingly played by others. “One of the [...]

When the pandemic quieted San Francisco, these birds could hear each other sing. As urban bustle ground to a halt this spring, white-crowned sparrow songs improved surprisingly fast, a new study [...]

I was a young, African-American Southerner, working in a Republican administration. But I loved Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and that was enough for her. By Eric L. Motley Our improbable [...]

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 [...]