Composing, as we usually think of it, is the first part of a two-step relay: The composer writes notes on a piece of paper and hands it off to the performer, who makes them sound. But there's another ...

The last wonted Walt Disney Concert Hall program this year, barring a miracle COVID-19 cure, was on March 10. The pandemic had just begun to divide people from one another, and attendance was said to ...

The New York Philharmonic’s next music leader, slowly revealing facets of his personality, used his latest visit to showcase his political conscience. By Joshua Barone When Lisa Moore turned 60 her ...

This Friday, A Far Cry, the Boston-based string ensemble, presents a Jordan Hall concert including Frederic Rzewski’s “Les Moutons de Panurge.” The 1969 piece finds the Westfield-born Rzewski’s ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook When Lisa Moore turned 60 her husband commissioned a Rzewski score for her. Now, she has recorded a Rzewski album, showcasing a wide ...

Nearly two centuries after his death, Beethoven's example and influence continue to hold sway. The music of his late period is the seemingly inexhaustible inspiration for Frederic Rzewski, the ...

Jazz listeners are all too familiar with the controversy that surrounded “downtown” Manhattan’s crossbreeding of jazz, rock, modern classical and world music during the 1970s and ’80s. Fewer may ...

Frederic Rzewski's combative music clearly strikes a chord with younger musicians, and three of the works here are followed by electronic remixes - by Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, Giuseppe Ielasi and ...

Frederic Rzewski, the American-born composer who rejected both serialism and minimalism in his struggle to create a significant body of work over the past half-century, much of it politically themed, ...

Bobby Mitchell captures the intimacy and complexity of his friend's compositions in a new album, Frederic Rzewski: Late Piano Works Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...

The music of the American composer Frederic Rzewski, who has died aged 83 after a heart attack, drew on his flair for improvisation as a pianist and strong leftwing political engagement. Invention and ...

In the rarefied, ivory-tower world of new music, the formidable American composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski comes as a blast of fresh air. The titles of his pieces tell you this is a man who engages ...