He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract ...

"Their work at American Composers Orchestra, Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and Gateways Music Festival is reaching toward a more just and vibrant future for concert music and we ...

'Maestro' is the movie — and man — on many people's lips, thanks to the awards buzz around Bradley Cooper's biopic of the ...

The American composer George Crumb was born about a half-century after Ives’s death and carried forward something of the older composer’s experimental spirit. This volume rounds out the ...

The year’s finest collections include ones devoted to composer Charles Ives, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and violinist ...

We get requests along the lines of, ‘We’re making an American film, but we want a score that isn’t Hollywood'," he says of ...

Welcome to Hidden Voices! This project seeks to explore, document and make public the piano music currently held in the Walker-Hill Collection at the American Music Research Center at CU Boulder. The ...

When the Czech composer Antonin Dvořák visited the United States in 1892, he believed the future of its so-called classical ...

American composers like George Gershwin and Duke Ellington began to draw on their own native music - jazz. Stravinsky and Ravel responded with music that also embraced jazz styles. Folk music was also ...