Landmark of the Avant-Garde

March 28, 2010 by Kyle Gann

The great Robert Ashley turns 80 today…

Joe Kubera on Trusting Your Material
Fascinating. I'm in awe of composers anyway, because I'm not one, and I admire the magic they often create. KG...
Posted Jul 21, 2014
nac on Ives the Primitive as Straw Man
This is very left field, but there's a passage in a retelling of Sophocles' "Antigone" by Anne Carson that comes...
Posted Jul 19, 2014
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz on Ives the Primitive as Straw Man
Kyle, do you approach the Concord from outside of the arts? The Concord was in progress along with Einstein's work, for...
Posted Jul 19, 2014
Henry Gwiazda on Ives the Primitive as Straw Man
Hi Kyle! I follow your blog daily but I've never commented before. Shame on me! Because of my multimedia thinking, I think...
Posted Jul 18, 2014
Jan Swafford on Ives the Primitive as Straw Man
Can't wait for the Essays, Kyle! KG replies: Thanks, Jan. But the blog's more fun. I have to be polite in...
Posted Jul 18, 2014
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz on Ives the Primitive as Straw Man
Thanks ... very excited about the book. You say above... "I wasn’t even aware that musicologists associate experimentalism in music with...
Posted Jul 17, 2014
Cara on Ives the Primitive as Straw Man
Professor Kyle, Do you greatly admire the operas of Harrison Birtwistle? KG replies: I've never heard them. I've kept up with his...
Posted Jul 17, 2014
Richard Leigh on Ives the Primitive as Straw Man
I'm looking forward to the book very much. The reference to Ruskin is intriguing, as is your argument that one...
Posted Jul 17, 2014
Juhani Nuorvala on Symphonic Milestone
Marvelous piece! I'd only known about Carl through his excellent book on In C and the interview on NewMusicBox but...
Posted Jul 15, 2014
John Luther Adams on Symphonic Milestone
Heartfelt best wishes to a singular composer and a wonderful human being. Here's to 60 more years!
Posted Jul 12, 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