MUSICAL FORCE OF NATURE: German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's experiments with the structure of sound and his innovations with electronics made him a pioneer of the musical avant-garde.
Stockholm - Acclaimed US soprano Renee Fleming and legendary British rock group Pink Floyd were Wednesday named winners of the Polar Music Prize 2008. The jury cited Fleming for her sublime unparalleled voice and unique stylistic versatility, notin
Upcoming productions are going with complex themes. MODERNISM HAD a good run, the historian Peter Gay concludes in his new study of the subject. His estimate is about 120 years, beginning with the simultaneous publication in 1857 of Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary" and Baudelaire's collection of poems "Les Fleurs du Mal." In music, that span extends through the wild avant-garde experiments of
For Paul Lewis, the English pianist who gave a forceful but not always persuasive recital in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon, music would seem to be a particularly nuanced branch of athletics - something akin to weightlifting, say, or wrestling. It's a matter of
Henry Brant was one of the youngest of the pre-Second World War American experimental composers. He scored for odd instruments and instrumental combinations and equalised "high" and "low" art forms and topics. He was best known for his work in spatial music, a kind of "surround sound" effect informed by Renaissance antiphony, Berlioz and Charles Ives, which both predated and outstripped similar
The Berlin Philharmonic could part company with its conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, over his programme for 2009, which includes a performance of Stockhausen in an airport hangar.
Three-and-a-half years have seemed like an interminable wait to hear the marvelous pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard play again with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Staff writer Benn Wineka was assigned the task of encapsulating the meaning and relevance of an increasingly visible avant-garde music community in the Triangle.
Technology is slowly conquering the human race. The march toward the inevitable, Skynet-level annihilation includes the subjugation of our art. Example A: Street Horrrsing, 50 minutes of post-human, batch-processed noise from experimental duo Fuck Buttons. Stylistic reference points Karlhei
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