Landmark of the Avant-Garde

March 28, 2010 by Kyle Gann

The great Robert Ashley turns 80 today…

Stephen Budiansky on The Composer as Cripple
Nothing to forgive--I appreciate your insights and viewpoints very much and have never minded interesting criticisms. Just wanted to add one...
Posted Jul 25, 2014
Virginia Anderson on Inventing an America
Well, Kyle, I did my undergrad and grad work at the University of Redlands, which was primarily a performance school...
Posted Jul 25, 2014
Stephen Budiansky on The Composer as Cripple
I definitely would be the last person to disagree with your critique of the usual approach to musical biographies: my...
Posted Jul 25, 2014
Derek Bermel on Inventing an America
Fantastic list, Kyle!! Would love to see the even bigger list from which you culled this. KG replies: Thanks, Derek, but...
Posted Jul 25, 2014
J. Peter Burkholder on The Composer as Cripple
Kyle, thanks very much for your response. I understand what you're saying, and what bothers you about some of the...
Posted Jul 25, 2014
J. Peter Burkholder on The Composer as Cripple
Hey Kyle, I love you like a brother, but I'm feeling a little insulted here. As a former president of...
Posted Jul 24, 2014
Michael Monroe on Inventing an America
Here's a "Which Dodecaphonic Composer Are You?" quiz: http://thedoctorinspiteofhimself.com/dode01.html KG replies: [Sigh] And my day had been going so well...
Posted Jul 24, 2014
Virginia Anderson on Inventing an America
Kyle, any university music department that has no room for an American music course (or experimental music, or any free...
Posted Jul 24, 2014
Arthur Maisel on The Composer as Cripple
I'm not sure that the musicologists are ignoring what's going on now (take a look at the tables of contents...
Posted Jul 23, 2014
Jay Derderian on The Composer as Cripple
"But I’m getting programmed such that if I read the words “Ives’s father,” a little voice in my head says,...
Posted Jul 23, 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