The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself.

Ludwig: Oh. Vhat’s so special about the 20th Century then? Naomi: The music! It was full of extremes and experimenting with sounds. The most important theme of the this period was the idea of ...

From the harmonies and impressionistic sparkle of the French school to the avant-garde of the Viennese school and all the way across to the rhythmic vitality of the Russian school, the early twentieth ...

It was a dark time when FM radio wallowed in narrow, whitewashed, corporate-mandated playlists. Pop music stations rotated the same dozen force-fed hits and nothing but. Country music outlets played ...

Music in the 20th Century changed dramatically, due to the hostile political climate, advances in technology, and huge shifts in style. Many composers, struggling to build any further on the music of ...

In the 20th century, composers thought about different ... some composers wrote music that included microtones - intervals smaller than a semitone. The sound came across to the listener as dissonance.

It has become a popular conviction that Krzysztof Penderecki's music is a summary of the achievements of 20th century music to date - a summary with a broad perspective of the history of music from ...

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Pianist Geoffrey Burleson’s solo recital will offer frequently forgotten or overlooked mid-20th century masterpieces by U.S. composers.