Topic: Steve Reich

Classical music, even of the up-to-date minimalist variety that has influenced everyone from Brian Eno to LCD Soundsystem, evidently moves at a...
I'm a musical theater composer. It's with considerable pain that I write that statement; for while I love music, and I love theater, I am acutely...
Robert Nelson, whose sprightly, arch experimental films brought spontaneity, teasing and wit to the often deadly serious arena of avant-garde...

Hume’s “Phasing” Is Pop Concrète

File under evolutionary leaps: Hume-a prog-pop band that this blog has followed very closely-left D.C. last summer for a 100-acre property in...

The future of albums

Behind the Music First Look: Slacker Radio The return of the album Spiffy up your music with album art Music Download Services Compared iTunes...

9/11 haunts -- and overwhelms -- NY artists

After five months of painstaking work on a project about 9/11, New York artist Carla Shapiro watched her creation disintegrate. It was just as she'd hoped.A disappearing art piece was Shapiro's way of tackling what many Big Apple ...

"Different Trains" rattle through historic Jerusalem site

JERUSALEM (Reuters Life!) - A disused Ottoman-era jail in Jerusalem has been taken over this month for performances of American composer Steve Reich's "Different Trains" multimedia work that recounts the ferrying of Jews to the Nazi death camps.The antiquated building in ...

Louis Andriessen's music featured at Other Minds

0 View Larger Image . The only predictable attribute of Other Minds, the annual new-music festival that has its 16th season this weekend, is that...
Demand is picking up for vacation rentals in the North America, Mexico and Caribbean markets and conversion rates are soaring.. . Those trends were...

Three Songs for Soundtracking an Academic Montage

For mortals, there is no fun, exciting way to successfully speed up an intense study session. If Johnny is going to finally get into law school/finish college despite his frat-party mishaps/get that scholarship by conquering the SATs, he's going ...