Contemporary Music (genre)

Elliott Carter, preeminent American composer, is dead at 103

2012-11-05 16:00:00

Elliott Carter, one of the preeminent American composers of the past century, has died at 103. He died of natural causes at his home in New York, according to his close friend and assistant Virgil Blackwell. A prolific composer who won two Pulitzer...

Joe South dies at 72; singer-songwriter did 'Games People Play'

2012-09-06 00:00:00

Joe South, a versatile singer-songwriter who penned "Games People Play," "Down in the Boondocks" and other pop-rock hits in the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 72. South died Wednesday at his home in Buford, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, said Butch Lowery,...

Culture(d)—January 2012

2012-01-01 16:38:06

Beatrice Gersh dies at 87; L.A. arts patron

2011-10-11 00:00:00

Beatrice Gersh, a distinguished art collector and patron of the arts in Los Angeles for more than half a century who played a significant role in the founding of the Museum of Contemporary Art, has died. She was 87. Gersh, the widow of Hollywood talent...

Dave Grohl mingles past, present with Foo Fighters

2011-10-12 00:00:00

Dave Grohl saw the news online: The famously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church planned a protest outside a Foo Fighters concert in Kansas City, Mo. The band was another target of the tiny church, which has heckled the funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers,...

This year, this land will be Woody Guthrie's

2012-01-06 00:00:00

Talking 'punk jazz' and the Dead Kenny Gs with genre-defying saxophonist Skerik

2011-07-15 16:33:10

L.A. Phil wins national award for innovative programming

2011-06-10 16:33:48

Beyond the Luau

2011-06-05 00:00:00

If you doubt the influence of Hawaiian music, consider the following: The YouTube clip of ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro playing George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” has nearly 8 million views. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam...

Esa-Pekka Salonen wins the 2012 Grawemeyer Award

2011-11-27 21:33:10

Influences: Violinist Rachel Barton Pine

2011-11-30 16:33:01

Music review: Vicky Ray at Piano Spheres recital at Zipper Hall

2011-11-16 16:33:05

Sibling musicians Jesse and Joy Huerta with their Latin Grammy awards for record of the year, song of the year, contemporary pop vocal album and short form music video.

2012-12-31 10:23:59

art. They donated 13 important works to the Museum of Contemporary Art, which she helped found. Above, Gersh and her husband at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She was 87.

2011-10-13 09:04:05

British composer and conductor Oliver Knussen leads Elliott Carter on stage as the Tanglewood Music Center celebrates the 100th birthday of composer Carter at its 2008 Festival of Contemporary Music.

2008-12-16 15:35:08