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Some contemporary composers prefer to use shapes, arrows and other visual symbols to indicate pitch, duration or volume in their music. Many of the graphic scores that result are quite beautiful and resemble works of modern art. -
Laurello, Lerew or Warren: Sō Percussion to Premiere One American Composers Forum National Finalist in New Jersey
Sō Percussion's unique style of ensemble infuses all things struck and battered. Sure, composers the likes of Edgard Varèse, John Cage and Steve Reich have passed down their percussive theories, but this quartet has formulated a repertoire--if not an entire ideology--that's... -
Contemporary Music, Art and Architecture Converge at St. Louis Symphony's Pulitzer Series
The St. Louis Symphony's innovative Pulitzer Concert Series continues this year with more chamber music concerts at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts... -
A Leisurely Performance of John Cage’s 'ASLSP' Lasts for 12 Years...and Still Counting
A performance of 'ASLSP' began on September 5, 2001, John Cage’s 89th birthday, and is scheduled to last for 639 years. The next chord change will happen on October 5, 2013... -
Longplayer, the World’s Longest Concert, Continues in London
Longplayer is a composition whose duration is measured not in minutes, hours or even days, but in centuries. Designed to last 1,000 years, a performance of Longplayer began in the year 2000 in London. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer... -
Five Quickies: New York City Opera on Kickstarter, Philip Clark on Bernstein's Elgar, John Cage's 10 Rules for Dancing, 10 Best Jazz Pianists, Tupac Shakur Musical
Here, then, is today's news. News gets made fresh everyday. And with the world's best musicians, singers, dancers and actors going back to repertory work after their summer stocks, there's more good news happening now than there was, say, back in August. -
eighth blackbird Plays Music of Wilco Drummer Glenn Kotche and Other Bad Boys of New Music at Free Chicago Concert
You can still hear eighth blackbird before they fly the Chicago coop. The Grammy-winning new music group will present a program dominated by Chicago-area composers on Wednesday, August 28 at Millennium Park--including a première by Glenn...
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