There is a story that the 15-year-old Frank Zappa, who had already tracked down the only Edgard Varèse LP in La Mesa, California, was allowed, as a 15th-birthday present, to put in a long-distance ...

There’s a lot to like about the Mothers of Invention’s 1966 debut, Freak Out!, from its solarized cover—with bandleader Frank Zappa in a moth-eaten coonskin coat—to the music inside, a truly ...

FRANK ZAPPA -- composer, rock star, satirist, visionary, curmudgeon, iconoclast -- would have turned 65 on Dec. 21. That milestone did not receive nearly as much attention as another sad reminder of ...

Fed up of X Factor fodder? Beethoven turntablism and a tribute to Edgard Varèse will lead you off music’s beaten track in this week’s playlist Petra Meinel-Winkelbach was a German singer expert at ...

Freeform radio station WFMU-- the home of all things delightfully "out there" -- has unearthed a curious recording that may change how folks look at the history of free jazz. In 1957, French-born ...

Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his work "Déserts" which he had to attend. Between 1965-68, the composer Luc Ferrari collaborated with director ...

On May 1, the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble presents a concert including Edgard Varèse’s 1954 “Déserts,” a characteristically extraordinary piece from the ever-experimental French-American ...

Among the artifacts occupying the second floor workroom of composer Chou Wen-chung's beautiful West Village brownstone are numerous metal gongs once owned by Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Into The Music By Steve Smith MUSICAL revolutions often come in generous portions. Think of Monteverdi’s operas; Beethoven’s “Eroica” and Ninth ...

Ludovic Morlot here offers an unusual coupling which illustrates the impact of the aesthetic earthquake that redrew the boundaries of musical experience in the early decades of the 20th century. The ...

Between 1965-68, the composer Luc Ferrari collaborated with director Gérard Patris on a series of filmed intimate portraits of great musicians, 'Les Grandes Répétitions' (The Great Rehearsals).