Quand j’etais jeune on me disait: Vous verrez quand vous aurez cinquante ans.
J’ai cinquante ans. Je n’ai rien vu.
Erik Satie
Satie’s Dream (1975)
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Quand j’etais jeune on me disait: Vous verrez quand vous aurez cinquante ans.
J’ai cinquante ans. Je n’ai rien vu.
Erik Satie
Satie’s Dream (1975)
Just as Harry Partch called himself a "philosophic music man seduced into carpentry," I'm a composer seduced into musicology... Read More…
So classical music is dead, they say. Well, well. This blog will set out to consider that dubious factoid with equanimity, if not downright enthusiasm [More]
Kyle Gann's Home Page More than you ever wanted to know about me at www.kylegann.com
PostClassic Radio The radio station that goes with the blog, all postclassical music, all the time; 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
David Doty's Just Intonation site
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
an ArtsJournal blog

Happy birthday, Kyle.
Bon anniversaire!
I read the blog everyday.
Let me just say, Thank you.
Happy Birthday!
Bon anniversaire.
Bon anniversaire.
Listening to your lovely “Satie’s Dream” as I type this: Many Happy Returns of the Day!
Happy Birthday, Kyle. I’m 60 and think you’re better off to be 50.
Many more. Good health, happiness + the best of everything.
i’ve been reading you for over a year now
thank you for the music you have shoved my way
thank you for your writing which reminds me that i’m not the only one a little unsure why things are the way they are
happy birthday
love
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