Kyle Gann

I'm a composer (since I was 13), a music critic (since I was 27), a musicologist (since I was 32), and a music professor (since I was 39)....
I'm a composer (since I was 13), a music critic (since I was 27), a musicologist (since I was 32), and a music professor (since I was 39). I was new-music critic for the Village Voice (Greg Sandow's successor) from 1986 to 2005, and I teach music theory, history, and composition at the music department at Bard College. I've published three books: The Music of Conlon Nancarrow (Cambridge University Press, 1995), American Music in the Twentieth Century (Schirmer Books, 1997), and Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice (U. of CA Press, 2006). About half of my music is microtonal - I feel bilingual in that respect - and lately I've been composing operas. I've performed my one-man opera Custer and Sitting Bull in Australia, Russia, and all over America; Cinderella's Bad Magic, my opera with librettist Jeff Sichel, premiered in Moscow; and I've just finished another part of the trilogy with Sichel, The Watermelon Cargo. I've lived my entire life immersed in and involved with classical music, and started making the transition to postclassical many years ago.
October 24, 2003 7:16 PM | | Comments (1)

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By E J Sauter on February 21, 2006 2:51 PM

I find your comments quite interesting. I foudn this site while looking for references to microtonal pianos.

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Sites To See

Postclassic Radio! - Kyle Gann's internet radio station that accompanies the blog; see the playlist at kylegann.com

American Mavericks - the Minnesota Public radio program about American music (scripted by Kyle Gann with Tom Voegeli)

Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar - a cornucopia of music, interviews, information by, with, and on hundreds of intriguing composers who are not the Usual Suspects

Iridian Radio - an intelligently mellow new-music station

New Music Box - the premiere site for keeping up with what American composers are doing and thinking

The Rest Is Noise - The fine blog of critic Alex Ross

William Duckworth's Cathedral - the first interactive web composition and home page of a great postminimalist composer

Mikel Rouse's Home Page - the greatest opera composer of my generation

Eve Beglarian's Home Page - great Downtown composer

Just Intonation Network - a meeting place for people interested in alternative tunings

Erling Wold's Web Site - a fine San Francisco composer of deceptively simple-seeming music, and a model web site

The Dane Rudhyar Archive - the complete site for the music, poetry, painting, and ideas of a greatly underrated composer who became America's greatest astrologer

Utopian Turtletop, John Shaw's thoughtful blog about new music and other issues

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