A white-haired lady wanders Richard Neutra’s landmark midcentury house in Silver Lake at night, when she suddenly encounters a mountain lion calmly purring — and a grand piano in the room begins to play, on […]
American composer Terry Riley performs in London in 2018. His groundbreaking work In C helped launch the musical movement called minimalism 60 years ago. Robin Little/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robin Little/Getty Images Inspiration […]
When Gustavo Dudamel became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic 15 years ago, the ensemble had already under Esa-Pekka Salonen become the orchestra of the future, playing far more new music than another in […]
Big Ears Festival 2025 is returning to Knoxville, Tennessee from March 27-30. Next year’s lineup includes sets by Philip Glass Ensemble, ANOHNI and the Johnsons, Waxahatchee, Rufus Wainwright, Esperanza Spalding, Yo La Tengo, Múm, Jessica […]
I was watching some episodes of a television show, which shall remain nameless if only because I can’t remember the name, and was more than usually struck by the thought that if it were only […]
Our feature series Crate Digging takes a deep dive into music history to turn up several albums all music fans should know. In this edition, The National’s Bryce Dessner talks about 16 essential classical albums […]
Photo Credit: Noam Galai, Ilya Savenok for Getty Images, Courtesy of Tibet House US On Monday, Feb. 26, Tibet House presented its 37th annual benefit concert at Carnegie Hall’s hallowed Stern Auditorium. Brought to life […]
For the last 37 years, Tibet House US has celebrated the Tibetan New Year (Losar) with an all-star benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Revered as one of New York City’s longest-running cultural events, this year’s […]
Kelly Moran will release a new album next month on Warp. Moves in the Field moves away from the prepared piano techniques which defined Moran’s earlier works like 2017’s Bloodroot and her 2018 Warp debut, […]
Jlin will release a new album in March. Akoma is Jlin’s first album since 2017’s Black Origami. Across 11 tracks, she “sets a new benchmark” in her personal road map, according to Planet Mu, the […]
Jlin has announced the new album Akoma. The full-length—out March 22 via Planet Mu—has collaborations with Björk, Kronos Quartet, and Philip Glass, the latter of whom is on lead single “The Precision of Infinity.” Find […]
Unlike the wave of milquetoast biopics released over the years on Elvis, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash and others, Maestro is a welcome passion project by an actor/director willing to experiment with form and structure. Showing […]
Philip Glass, courtesy of Pace Gallery. Last month, Columbia University Press published Transfigured New York by Brooke Wentz. As an undergrad, Wentz hosted a radio show interviewing experimental musicians and avante-garde artists of the 80s […]
People have been playing the piano for centuries, but few people have ever made it sound like Celia Hollander does. Her latest album genuinely seems to redefine what the instrument can do. The music made […]
For the past four years, André 3000 sightings have practically become a thing of folklore. The circumstances tend to fit a pattern: someone stealthily films the Outkast legend playing a wooden double flute in public, […]
Minimalism is usually cool, detached, frictionless and mathematical. The music made by percussionist Bex Burch is not any of these things. What she calls “messy minimalism” shares some characteristics with the music of Steve Reich […]
In 1972, John Berger’s revelatory TV series and subsequent book, Ways of Seeing, began by discussing the changing ways we experience art via the then recent innovation of colour televisions in homes. Berger argued that […]
Thomas Bangalter, half of the former Daft Punk duo, composed the score for the ballet Mythologies, choreographed by fellow Frenchman Angelin Preljocaj. Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 hide caption toggle caption Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 Thomas Bangalter, half […]
Photo Credit: Henry Diltz Wise Music Group announces a co-publishing agreement with The Ravi Shankar Estate, including a trove of unreleased recordings and unpublished compositions from the legendary Indian musician’s archives. Wise Music Group, a […]
Wayne Shorter, a saxophonist and composer who was universally acknowledged as one of the most original and influential jazz artists of the last six decades, died Thursday at 89. Shorter, who worked closely with Art […]