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Cornelius Cardew's 'The Great Learning' instigated the formation of the Scratch Orchestra--an ensemble that, over many years and many more iterations, has counted AMM, Brian Eno, Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars among its members.
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Next to Masaki Batoh's 'Brain Pulse Music,' Alvin Lucier's 'Music for Solo Performer' sure sounds dumb.
All of us here at Classicalite really felt bad that hardly anyone recognized Val in London. Allow us, then, to explain just how much you missed...
Later today, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission will honor Miles Davis' townhouse at an official Medallion Ceremony.
Earlier this morning, Andris Nelsons, the young and fiery Latvian conductor, was appointed to the top spot with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Nelsons is the orchestra's 15th music director, succeeding James Levine.
Next to Masaki Batoh's 'Brain Pulse Music,' Alvin Lucier's 'Music for Solo Performer' sure sounds demure, dated and dumb.
Can one of YouTube's great musicians cut through the fog of Eurostar's London terminal? Let us find out.
A note from David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe...
Yesterday, Buzzfeeder Andrew Massey's cute li'l listicle, "10 Conductors Caught Using Magic," went viral with the tagline: "What, you think perfectly orchestrated symphonies happen because of practice?" Well, as anyone who's read this site even once can certainly attest, the answer to Massey's admittedly tongue-in-cheek query is resounding.
It might be hard to believe, but yes, Slipping Control at Audio Visual Arts is Ben Vida's first solo exhibition in New York.
On Friday evening, under the baton of Thomas Wilkins and the Omaha Symphony, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performed the first movement (and just the first-movement-only) of the much loved Piano Concerto in A Minor.
This summer, a 2,000-year-old language that the Buddha would have spoken will feature in Welsh National Opera's staged premiere of Jonathan Harvey's 'Wagner Dream.'
The man who turned down the New York Philharmonic, over a decade ago now, offers his riposte to a trio of book reviews penned by Rachel Shteir.
