Philip Glass with his son and daughter, feeding pigeons in Venice, Italy, during the first tour of Einstein on the Beach (1976).1yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Food for thought here by Brian Eno. We can easily take it for granted that these days, we can hear more new music in the space of a few months, than most would have heard in the span of a lifetime not so many years ago...3yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Let's take a moment to be amazed at George Crumb's immaculate musical handwriting...3yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
On the occasion of Philip Glass's 85th birthday, what is your favourite work by him?2yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Benjamin Britten walking with Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh. Britten's 'Jubilate', was commissioned by the Duke, and was also performed at his funeral yesterday (link in comments).3yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Born on this day in 1874, composer Charles Ives. What are your favourite works by him?1yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Born 100 years ago today, composer Gyorgy Ligeti (d. 2006). What are you favourite works by him?11mo ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
The great Pierre Boulez, no less, in the 1960's on how the West can longer hold exclusive claim to creative intelligence.2yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
There seems to have been a lot of composer photos posted to this sub recently. So here's Arvo Part under a blanket on an aeroplane...5yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Today in 1925, one of the greatest composers and conductors of the past 100 years was born (died in 2016). Happy Birthday Pierre Boulez!2yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Sorabji performing Sorabji for my late piano teacher, Yonty Solomon (seated right), at the composer's home in 1977.2yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
The concert at which John Cage and Morton Feldman met each other for the first time and became lifelong friends. They were leaving at the same time (after the Webern) and for the same reason; they couldn't imagine listening to anything else immediately after it...2yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
RIP Frederic Rzewski. ...I hate recordings... they should only be documents of a real musical event... I don’t like when it’s done in the studio... I think it should only be what happened... noises, wrong notes, children crying... All of this is real...3yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
Found a book at work that is so old, Rachmaninov is spoken about in the present tense.4yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/piano
Now that Liszt's birthday is finally over, a very happy 97th birthday to one of America's greatest living composers, Ned Rorem.3yr ⋅ RichMusic81 ⋅ r/classicalmusic
