One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and ...

Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.

Stravinsky is perhaps the only leading modernist composer of last century to enjoy a large popular following. His Rite of Spring was the great modernist outrage of 1913, pushing beyond the limits ...

The Acropolis Museum welcomes spring with music. On March 31st at 19:00, a concert by the Athens State Orchestra will take place in the Parthenon Hall, as part of the “Musical Walks” series organized ...

At last, the ambitious composer finds herself in the spotlight, with a Carnegie Hall residency and a sparkling new album featuring Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Mostly it got played, if at all, before esoteric little groups of modernist composers and musicians, who had built up a tolerance to what the uninitiated regarded as barnyard music. When he died ...

LEADING FRENCH modernist composer Darius Milhaud fled Nazi-occupied France for the US. (credit: Courtesy World Congress of Jewish Studies) In the context of the Holocaust, Terezin – aka ...

Presented by Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore and inspired by the centenaries of both Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio, 20th Century Radicals is a groundbreaking new Radio 3 series, celebrating a ...

In 1963, John Cage organised the first performance of ‘Vexations’. Cage, the American modernist composer, had discovered the piece in 1949, nearly a quarter century after Satie’s death.

Ballet Tucson is set to conclude its season this weekend with "Modern Masters," a series of performances at the Leo Rich ...