Before there was Minimalism there was Post-Minimalism. That might seem hardly feasible if you put your trust in time being an irreversible process. Theoretical physics, however, allows for a more open ...

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, ...

What does one get the composer who has everything? If the gift’s recipient is John Adams and the giver is his longtime record label Nonesuch, then the answer is “John Adams Collected Works,” a ...

MINIMALISM is the elevation of tidiness, of less is more, of hip reserve, to art (to say nothing of advertising and kitchen decor). The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s flier for its “Minimalist Jukebox” ...

Much like jazz, the origin story of minimalism is messy and hard to pin down to a date. And like jazz, definitions of minimalism can be rather slippery or downright contentious. Such challenges, ...

Springing from the remains of several promising independent Washington, D.C., bands, the trio Antelope began in 2001, striving to reach the stripped-down essence of rock-verging-on-punk music. Then, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

On June 24, Terry Riley turned 90. It was a momentous occasion for American music that got little attention in the U.S. But Sunday night at the Ford, Bang on a Can All-Stars will pay tribute in a ...