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 ...

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 ...

There are a dozen days between Christmas and Epiphany and there are 12 tones in the serialism method of composition. One music geek knew what to do. As we near the end of the Christmas season, let's ...

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 ...

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 ...