“To Play Is Both a Sign and a Symptom of Existence”: David Toop’s Into...

  The usual caveats warning against generalizations aside, it’s safe to say that in the arts as in other fields of life, the second half of the twentieth century was an era of improvisation. Encouraged...

Renewing Modernism: The Music of Ross Feller

Through its innovations in technique, technology and formal structures, the Western art music of the second half of the last century continues to exert influence on and offer possibilities to contemporary composers and performers....

Seth Parker Woods: Music as Choreography

Playing an instrument is, among other things, an action. At a fundamental level, a performance involves a sequence of purposive gestures—a set of intentions embodied in certain movements of the body directed toward the...

Irving Fine’s Twelve-tone Neoclassicism

Mid-20thcentury art music in America was largely dominated by twelve-tone composition. Other types of music were being composed, neoclassicism among them, but in the postwar years it was serial and other forms of composition...

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Addio a Peter Eötvös

La morte non ci dà tregua. Un addio a Peter Eötvös, che in un mio articolo del 2015 ho definito compositore dei 'movimenti cosmici'....

Maurizio Pollini