Karlheinz Stockhausen

'Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM' resurrects a continent's music

2011-12-06 16:35:12

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Before Kayne and after Bach: L.A. pioneer sampler Carl Stone

2011-11-09 16:32:59

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Dispatch from New York: John Lennon and Karlheinz Stockhausen, together at last

2011-03-11 21:33:02

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Henryk Gorecki dies at 76; composer of 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'

2010-11-13 00:00:00

Henryk Gorecki, a Polish composer famous for his Third Symphony, also known as the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs," died Friday following a serious illness. He was 76. Gorecki (pronounced Go-RET-ski) died in the cardiology ward at a hospital in his home...

Johannes Moser wants you to relax into classical music

2010-01-24 00:00:00

There's nothing new about classical musicians trying to expand their fan base. Even if deeds don't always match goals, plenty of performers make the effort. Still, one doesn't expect a largely unknown, foreign artist with little connection to this country...

Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

Classical music online: Salonen, Sellars and Mozart

2008-06-30 00:00:00

I do not unconditionally celebrate the Internet, particularly its intrusion into classical music. As replacements for the record store, Amazon and iTunes have become necessary evils. Typical commercial downloads are sonic shadows of the superior sound...

All he asks is: 'Try to like it'

2008-04-13 00:00:00

HELMUT Lachenmann's work is very strange, even by contemporary standards. This preeminent German composer shapes what are essentially noises -- taps, scrapes and rustlings, though made largely by conventional instruments -- into beautiful, even spiritual,...

Helmut Lachenmann at Monday Evening Concerts

2008-04-16 00:00:00

In Germany, he is often referred to as “Professor Helmut Lachenmann.” He is 73, lanky, bearded. A student of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen, he is perhaps the foremost representative of the second-generation European avant-garde. His...

What terrorists want

2008-12-08 00:00:00

Remember when your high school teachers tried to give their lessons more urgency by repeating the old adage that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it? Well, those days are over, or at least they should be. That's because in today's hyper-...

2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)

2012-05-21 10:23:00

It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...

Psychedelic Spring: A new Grateful Dead documentary gives Deadheads a reason to tune in and turn on

2012-04-13 11:39:00

Every spring, I listen to the Grateful Dead with fresh ears, not to the exclusion of everything else, but close to it. (I'm not alone in this. How many people in the Northeast associate the Dead's music with thaw, both literal and spiritual?) Despite...

MUSICAL FORCE OF NATURE: German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's experiments with the structure of sound and his innovations with electronics made him a pioneer of the musical avant-garde.

1981-04-01 00:00:00