What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting, full of idiotic, exotic and showcard effects, that every ten years or so ...

Gateways Radio celebrates music without limits. We explore the rich legacy of Black composers across the 20th century, with works by William Grant Still, Jessie Montgomery, Errollyn Wallen, and ...

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' recently published book, "The Rest Is Noise," aims to illuminate one of the most misunderstood forms of modern art: classical music, or, more precisely, 20th century ...

Barrie Gavin: instead of attempting to illustrate music literally, he found visual equivalents with a beauty of their own - Dmitri N. Smirnov Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, was a prolific ...

Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

That artists have a tendency to be strange is not surprising. However, Erik Satie, who was a groundbreaking composer that lay the foundation for minimalism in 20th-century classical music, really ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by This year’s edition of the Focus Festival commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment with a globe-trotting survey of music by women. By Joshua ...

The pianist who spent 25 years writing pop hits says he's long been interested in the work of Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg and others. Now he's... Bruce Hornsby's Modern Classical Moment Bruce ...