Landmark of the Avant-Garde

March 28, 2010 by Kyle Gann

The great Robert Ashley turns 80 today…

mclaren on Classical Music Can Make You Dumb
...the man mentioned something about the emotionalism of the music being especially appropriate because “this is an opera that really...
Posted Apr 23, 2014
jk on Classical Music Can Make You Dumb
I think that's accurate. We're trained to worship the music rather than enjoy it, and in response, non-musicians tend...
Posted Apr 22, 2014
herblevy on Classical Music Can Make You Dumb
It's not that classical music can make you dumb, it's journalism school. J students are trained to think they can...
Posted Apr 22, 2014
Michael Holland on Clickbait, Indeed
Mary Ellen's repertoire for CRASH is generally created as part of a group process. It's not the result of the...
Posted Apr 20, 2014
newmusicbuff on Classical Music Can Make You Dumb
I guess when you feel the need to fill time with words you might begin to sound like the average...
Posted Apr 19, 2014
Paul A. Epstein on Classical Music Can Make You Dumb
At one time Milton Cross managed to provide the commentary by himself. As with major league baseball, it now...
Posted Apr 19, 2014
Joe Kubera on A Difficult Genius
Sorry to hear he's gone. (Haven't read the obit.) Always had the nicest exchanges with him, and...
Posted Apr 14, 2014
Peter Mueller on What Is the Concord Sonata?
The "President's Own Marine Band" recorded an arrangement by Jonathan Elkus. It's out on Naxos.
Posted Apr 14, 2014
kea on What Is the Concord Sonata?
You may already know this, but there's a score of the Brant posted online by G. Schirmer/AMP, at the following...
Posted Apr 14, 2014
Doug Skinner on What Is the Concord Sonata?
There are also a couple of arrangements for concert band. You probably already know about them, but I'll mention...
Posted Apr 13, 2014

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