Landmark of the Avant-Garde

March 28, 2010 by Kyle Gann

The great Robert Ashley turns 80 today…

Ian Stewart on Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
Hi Kyle, I was replying to Susan Scheid's comments, not your original post which I entirely agree with. "and all...
Posted Mar 11, 2014
Joe Kubera on Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
Thanks for mentioning Dussek. Recently I turned on the car radio in the middle of a string quartet. ...
Posted Mar 11, 2014
Susan Scheid on Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
I don't wish to wear out my welcome, so, with apologies in advance, this will be the last. I'm struck...
Posted Mar 11, 2014
Ian Stewart on Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
I believe it is the structure that makes the piece compelling. There are other composers of the Classical period who...
Posted Mar 11, 2014
Susan Scheid on Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
Yes, it makes good sense to me that the loving comes from the listening. Understanding something of how a work...
Posted Mar 10, 2014
MWnyc on Typical Composing-World Disconnect
Honestly, I think one of the biggest qualifications for the Nemmers prize is the time and inclination to do four...
Posted Mar 10, 2014
MWnyc on Typical Composing-World Disconnect
Well-played, Kyle.
Posted Mar 10, 2014
Susan Scheid on Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
I want to thank you particularly for this (though I may be drawing a conclusion you don't endorse!): "His large-scale...
Posted Mar 10, 2014
Gene on Where One Looks for It, Evidence Will Be Found
It's not even as if E and F are the first two notes of op. 59, no. 3. You have...
Posted Mar 10, 2014
andvor on Typical Composing-World Disconnect
it's a silly position - he's just not that influential. Salonen has helped Lindberg reach a wider audience . ....
Posted Mar 10, 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