John Cage News

Experimental-music master composer and author John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912 into a cerebral household.

The recent series Mad Men, set in early 1960s New York, garnered as much attention for its carefully placed period references as it did for its storylines.

This might be something of a confusing album to track down, going under the same name as a Norwegian jazz quintet, issued on a little-known Finnish label, and featuring a style that is hard to readily classify.

Marc Geelhoed has a nice roundup of upcoming classical events , including the return of critic and composer Kyle Gann--a former Reader freelancer--to Chicago to lecture on John Cage.

Where: Yardbird Suite When: Tonight at 9 Tickets: $20 for members, $24 for guests, from Ticketmaster or at the door After years of dedication to working music's cutting edge, the versatile New York singer Jay Clayton still finds herself dropped into the wrong box.

Anastasia Tsioulcas analyses what the YouTube Symphony experiment achieved 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Upload, upload, upload,' proclaimed Michael Tilson Thomas near the start of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's concert at the famed venue on April 15th.

Beat-box performer Shodekeh and soprano Nancy McDuffie will take part of the Kandinsky Beat Down concert at Tech on Tuesday.

As I settled into my seat Wednesday evening for the debut of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, New Yorka s most regal of music venues, I had no idea what to expect.

Original film scores have always been underappreciated and overlooked, particularly ones that lean towards the classical tradition.

Avant-garde musical artists have always liked to stretch the limits of what traditional musical instruments can do.

PHOTO PROVIDED If the death of classical music is its oldest, finest tradition, no one has bothered to tell Ossia.

Modern classical music may be a paradoxical term, but Israeli composer Avner Dorman revels in such contradictions.

In the tradition of raucously creative Downtown NYC jazz-rock bands like Curlew and Naked City, Jim Pugliese's Phase III burns with passion that is both musical and conceptually bold and is a great working band, not just a thrown-together collection of accomplished soloists.

As Maestro David Loebel explained, the two-movement piano concerto uses its own musical vocabulary.

Curtis Clark , Connie Crothers , Joe Bonner World of Piano Series Northampton Center of the Arts Northampton, Massachusetts Sitting at the piano before playing it is somewhat like sitting at a drawing table in ...

If you're in tune with the counterculture, you've seen Chris Felver's photographs: of Lou Reed, Patty Smith, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Angela Davis.

Sunday evening's Gilmore Rising Stars Recital at the Wellspring Theatre marked the first time that the 27-year-old pianist and composer Francesco Tristano Schlime has performed for a Kalamazoo audience.

Thomson & Craighead, 'Unprepared Piano', 2004, Software application, computer, grand piano, dimensions variable In Unprepared Piano , a Yamaha disklavier grand piano is connected to a database of music MIDI ...

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET. G.Anderhub / Lebrecht Music & Arts Betty Freeman befriended and financed many modernist composers - from John Cage to John Adams.

Eddie the Rat is the group moniker for San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist Peter Martin and his merry quartet.