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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]