It’s hard to imagine Roberto Sierra’s new guitar mini-concerto Folias not becoming one of the most popular pieces of new classical music: it’s tuneful, soloistically flashy and has some ethnic exoticism thrown in to boot. …

As a fiercely loyal Radiohead fan, I confess I have long been suspicious of Christopher O’Riley’s transcriptions of the band’s music. Surely it would sound like a lounge pianist working his way through a fake …

The title might look like some sort of algebra problem, but here’s the deal: Cage never finished One13, but evidence suggests that the piece was intended for solo cello with three prerecorded cellos composed entirely …

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Donald Berman, pianoFor years I’ve been decrying Sony for not re-issuing the only collection of the complete music of Carl Ruggles (a 2-LP set I treasure which features performances by Michael Tilson Thomas and others). …

So far there haven’t been many successful connections between hip-hop and so-called “new music,” but composer Keith Obadike cites as his heroes both Nam June Paik and James Brown. Check this out: The Sour Thunder, …

Peter Kairoff, pianoIf “classical” audiences absolutely must have the constant comfort of their Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Saint-Saens, at the very least we might stir into their diets the sounds of the American composers who employed …

The latest release from Philip Glass’s archival label Orange Mountain Music is his world music epic Orion which combines the sound of his own Philip Glass Ensemble with important traditional music innovators from around the …

Though surely there are enough cellists in the world to avoid the necessity of it, recording technology means that if you want to play chamber music all by your lonesome, you can. Cellist Stephanie Winters …

Before listening to this disc, Carei Thomas was completely unknown to me, although this sixty-year-old African American composer/pianist has been creating wild free improvisational music in the Twin Cities for over 30 years. Perhaps that’s …