As part of the first generation of American post-minimalist composers, that meant contemporary classical music—including ...

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four,” the avant-garde composer John Cage once said. “If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it ...

The experimental composer Daniel Lopatin defines the genre through several key works. By Mitchell Kuga Minimalist music emerged in the 1960s, when composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass ...

Defining Bang on a Can is hard. Founded in 1987 by composers David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe, it is a musical collective made up of composers and musicians dedicated to performing, ...

Music streaming services put millions of songs within your reach, but they're not perfect. I've encountered plenty of headaches while streaming music across Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music ...

Minimalist Jukebox," the ambitious series produced by composer John Adams for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was kicked off in a fine, if somewhat scruffy, manner with an after-hours party of music ...

Pianist R. Andrew Lee is winning acclaim for his recordings and performances of minimalist music by modern classical composers. Next Tuesday, Lee will perform an evening of music by Eric Satie, an ...

As centenary events celebrate Simeon ten Holt’s work, music historians have questioned his omission from histories of Minimalism, and its focus on American greats. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London ...

Philip Glass was a 39-year-old cabbie in 1976, when the New York premiere of his opera “Einstein on the Beach” turned him into an international sensation. Nearly a half-century later, he remains the ...

Jon Gibson, a composer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and collaborative musician who had a profound effect on the creation and dissemination of what would come to be known as “minimalist” music ...