John Cage News

" " is a funny movie set in New York City's fashionable art galleries and experimental music scene.

It's hard to top the piano for this classic piece but this version is otherworldly enough to be of interest.

Tonight brings the Bang on a Can All-Stars to Chapel Hill for a performance called "Steel Hammer," which involves chamber rock, early music and the legendary folktale "John Henry." Sounds like another cool genre-busting outing for BOAC, the latest in a series.

A projection of the score of Cage's "Fontana Mix." John Cage, the arch-magus of the musical avant-garde, always found a warmer reception in Europe than he did in America.

Classical music and reggae music don't necessarily seem like they would belong to the same cultural family, but it helps when the musicians performing the mix are brothers.

Dance, music, video and still photos were the inseparable elements of the Danceworks Performance Company's hypnotic new program, "Simone Ferro and Friends II." The program made creative use of a scrim backdrop, using the dancers' shadows, video images of their own performances and obscuring qualities of the scrim for haunting effects.

Rosemary Lee and Terry Mann join forces to unite music and dance. Rambert Dance Company It may not be immediately obvious to the ear, but an awful lot of classical music is dance music in disguise.

For more information visit sopercussion.com . "We've never really thought, 'This isn't percussion so we shouldn't do it,'" says Jason Treuting, founding member of New York percussion quartet So Percussion.

SOUND MAN: Max Richter back in Edinburgh, where he studied piano and composition at university.

Published Wednesday 7 October 2009 09:57pm EST. Pianist Emanuele Torquati's performance last night was the first of a series of contemporary classical music concerts at the Italian Academy.

Thought ambient music had been drowned in a sea of new age nonsense and chill out? Think again! Artists such as Sun O))) and the Orb are giving the genre new hope Master of ambient music, Erik Satie.

Samuel Barber had one of the most unusual career trajectories of any American composer.

Name: Patrick Grant Title: Composer/Performer/Producer Affiliation: Curator & Co-Producer of "The MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology" URL: http://www.theaterlabnyc.com/Theaterlab3/MMiX.html 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Detroit where I studied music composition and classical performance ...

"... nothing wrong with failure. Experimental music is all about accepting the risk of failure.

Experimental-music master composer and author John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912 into a cerebral household.

The recent series Mad Men, set in early 1960s New York, garnered as much attention for its carefully placed period references as it did for its storylines.

This might be something of a confusing album to track down, going under the same name as a Norwegian jazz quintet, issued on a little-known Finnish label, and featuring a style that is hard to readily classify.

Marc Geelhoed has a nice roundup of upcoming classical events , including the return of critic and composer Kyle Gann--a former Reader freelancer--to Chicago to lecture on John Cage.

Where: Yardbird Suite When: Tonight at 9 Tickets: $20 for members, $24 for guests, from Ticketmaster or at the door After years of dedication to working music's cutting edge, the versatile New York singer Jay Clayton still finds herself dropped into the wrong box.

Anastasia Tsioulcas analyses what the YouTube Symphony experiment achieved 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Upload, upload, upload,' proclaimed Michael Tilson Thomas near the start of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's concert at the famed venue on April 15th.