Morton Feldman was a colleague of John Cage and part of the New York School of avant garde composers to emerge from the experimental wing of the 1950s. Early experiments using graphic scores and non-traditional notation yielded compelling and challenging new open forms emphasizing interpretive freed
A reflective or dream-like melody, a prelude filled with bittersweet melancholy, the surrender to a nationalist impulse: all are quintessential Chopin. In his short life, Frédéric Chopin moved from the fashionable salons of Paris into history, as one of the greatest composers of mus
Although he died at an early age, Gershwin created a body of work that was not merely extensive, but also enduring. His music is still frequently performed more than 50 years after his death. Gershwin absorbed all the musical developments coming from the jazz world, so it is not surprising that his w