among them a historian who had won a MacArthur prize. We’d all been to an art opening, and, over dinner, a painter among us was holding forth on the work we’d seen. “As you know,” he said, bringing in ...

Serialism for Kids, presented by Concord Conservatory of Music piano faculty member Kitty Cheung-Evans, will be held from 10 to 10:50 a.m. March 20. Serialism is a unique way to write music without ...

Richard Rodney Bennett once described Pierre Boulez as “a spectacular musician’’ and, for different reasons, the same epithet could have applied to himself. Prodigiously gifted, Bennett began informal ...

The composer Milton Babbitt was the high priest of American academic serialism and a pioneer in the field of electronic music. He was also an influential university teacher whose theories achieved ...

Difficult, tuneless and degenerate? Far from it. The serialism composers of the Second Viennese School like Schoenberg, Berg and Webern are among the most controversial of the 20th Century, but how do ...

How did I miss this before today? Well, thanks to the sublime Maria Popova and her site Brain Pickings, I am now among the millions of folks who have encountered the equally sublime Vi Hart on YouTube ...

This is the final article in “The Postmodern Temper,” a series which examined the contemporary state of various artistic fields. Publication is made possible with support from the “New Works” Program ...

I. Materials of twentieth-century music : 1. Introduction : The artist and his environment ; The arts and the artist in the twentieth century -- 2. Melody : The concept of melody ; Melodic style in ...