The Southwest cultural exchange brings American and Vietnamese composers together for the first time on a significant scale. In the formal Hanoi concerts thus far, Vietnamese and American musicians have enthusiastically collaborated in John Cage’s... Full Article at Los Angeles Times

The word "tacet" is Latin for "it is silent," and it is a classical musical term to indicate that an instrument does not play for a long period of time– typically an entire movement. "It was common for early symphonies to leave out the brass or... Full Article at Daily Speculations

My parents are both pretty musical. My mom was a singer in the Seventies. She turned me on to a lot of the music I sort of grew up listening to -- Paul Simon, Neil Diamond and a lot of singer-songwriter stuff. My dad was into really into experimental... Full Article at Spinner.com

From intimate chamber concerts to a stunning new production of one of the largest and most controversial music/theater works ever created—Leonard Bernstein’s Mass—the 2010 Virginia Arts Festival offers Full Article at PilotOnline.com

But if future productions of Cunninghams dances turn out to be as good as the Beach Birdsthat former MCDC dancer Banu Ogan staged for LOB, we can count ourselves lucky. This beautiful 1991 work is one of several Cunningham dances set to music by John... Full Article at Village Voice

This sounds incredibly awesome). Leng Tan sat down to a piano in front of her that had been prepared, John Cage-style, with a toy piano to her right, a tiny hand-cranked music box on her stand, and various other tiny noisemakers. Her first piece,... Full Article at 17 Dots

I'm going to speculate she was a student at Lenoir-Rhyne College when I performed Custer down there about eight years ago. Of course, what's important about a name is how many letters it has, so, John Cage, Kyle Gann, Carl Orff, Arvo Pärt, whatever. I... Full Article at Net New Music

Tudor actually premiered Cage’s most notorious piece, 4’ 33” (1952), which featured the pianist sitting stock still in front of his keyboard for exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds. The “music” was provided by the sounds of the audience... Full Article at Blogcritics.org

For the artists of those communities, as for Brand's professors at Stanford, cybernetics offered a new way to model the world. Even at the height of the cold war, many of the most important artists of this period, figures such as John Cage and Robert... Full Article at Energy Bulletin

The most preposterous aspect of Ghoshs work is the inclusion of miniature prints of Duchamps Bicycle Wheel (first made in 1913; and later recreated in 1951) and Beuyss Fat Chair (1964) alongside brief notes on John Cages 433 (1952) and the Stonewall... Full Article at Calcutta Telegraph

Starting in the early 1990s, he began to stage sound installations in art galleries, venues where his ideas for compositions could unfold over long stretches of time. Boursier-Mougenot's approach has something in it of John Cage's belief that... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Dancers of Lyon Opera Ballet in Maguy Marin's "Grosse Fugue."NEW YORK — The Lyon Opera Ballet is back, and once again director Yorgos Loukos has assembled a stunning program that dance aficionados cannot afford to miss. No American dance company could o Full Article at NJ.com

That isn't to say the music is delivered with any pretense of being high art – the Baltimore group has always operated with a populist stance, more party than presentation. Guitarist and co-founder Dustin Wong left the band a couple of years back to... Full Article at Atlanta Creative Loafing

Music Indistry News Network They have enjoyed collaborations with composers John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Osvaldo Golijov, Steve Mackey, John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, ... Full Article at Net New Music

Happy days. Happy days. It's real intelligence; the intelligence of the engineers who designed the computer, and the programmers who write the apps. John Brunner predicted this in Stand on Zanzibar (1968) -- consumers use do-it-yourself kits to paint... Full Article at Slashdot

A member of the Welsh National Youth Orchestra, upon leaving grammar school in the early Sixties he won a music place at Goldsmiths College in London. He soon gained a scholarship to Tanglewood in Massachusetts to play viola with the Boston Symphony... Full Article at OH NO THEY DIDN'T

Brooklyn Rider is a quartet of scruffy-haired New Yorkers making classical music attractive to fans of groups like Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear. "Diversity is the biggest thing for us, we like to perform for fans of all musical tastes," says Colin Full Article at National Post

Combining audio and visual elements has been the preoccupation of many artists since John Cage’s days. London-based Sculpture offers a new take on the audio-visual mix with their custom-outfitted vinyl records and tape systems. Surprisingly, the records Full Article at PSFK

To honor Nicolaus Faber, who is credited with building the world's first great organ in 1361, which was 639 years before Y2K. Of course, if you'd like to hear the whole thing before you pass on to that great concert hall in the sky, the piece is... Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat