The experimental composer Daniel Lopatin defines the genre through several key works. By Mitchell Kuga Minimalist music ...

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four,” the avant-garde composer John Cage once said. “If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it ...

Defining Bang on a Can is hard. Founded in 1987 by composers David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe, it is a musical collective made up of composers and musicians dedicated to performing, ...

Minimalist Jukebox," the ambitious series produced by composer John Adams for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was kicked off in a fine, if somewhat scruffy, manner with an after-hours party of music ...

As centenary events celebrate Simeon ten Holt’s work, music historians have questioned his omission from histories of Minimalism, and its focus on American greats. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London ...

Pianist R. Andrew Lee is winning acclaim for his recordings and performances of minimalist music by modern classical composers. Next Tuesday, Lee will perform an evening of music by Eric Satie, an ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It doesn’t bother pianist R. Andrew Lee when you fall asleep at his performances. They can last awhile longer than most classical music concerts — sometimes ...

Minimalism. For non-musicians right now, the word calls to mind the gospel of decluttering, capsule wardrobes, or bland home designs involving beige color palettes and coffee table books no one ...

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Jon Gibson, a composer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and collaborative musician who had a profound effect on the creation and dissemination of what would come to be known as “minimalist” music ...

Philip Glass was a 39-year-old cabbie in 1976, when the New York premiere of his opera “Einstein on the Beach” turned him into an international sensation. Nearly a half-century later, he remains the ...

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