Today marks the 60th anniversary of the famous destruction of a piano at the first Fluxus International New Music Festival in Wiesbaden. In September 1962,…
Today marks the seventieth anniversary of the Woodstock premiere of «4’33″», probably the best-known piece by American composer John Cage. Today marks the seventieth anniversary…
The winners of the German Opus Klassik awards, which recognise the best classical music albums, have been announced. The winners of the 2022 edition of…
Chacon/Nakatani/Santistevan LP release at San Miguel Chapel, in Santa Fe, NM. Raven Chacon, the Diné composer who won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for music for…
The US label Exultate releases the “First Symphony ‘Passiontide’” by the Welsh composer Paul Mealor, imbued with the mystical minimalism of Pärt and Górecki. Welsh…
New York’s Beach Sessions Dance Series is screening “Einstein on the Beach” this Friday at the Arverne Cinema in Rockaway Beach, outdoors and free of…
American label Odradek releases “Cherche titre”, the first album by Spanish composer Mikel Urquiza. It is very enlightening that the libretto of Cherche titre, the…
The German composer Heiner Goebbels turns 70 and the ECM label pays tribute to him by releasing “A House of Call”, the work he premiered…
Scottish BBC Radio 3 journalist Kate Molleson publishes “Sound Within Sound”, a book on 20th century composers to discover. In the introduction to the book…
The American composer John Luther Adams releases “Houses of the Wind”, an album created from field recordings made with an aeolian harp. The music of…