George Rochberg, who died Sunday at 86, was one of the leading post-World War II American composers, credited by many with restoring traditional tonality to a respectable role in classical composition ...

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 ...

The French composer – a postwar pupil of Messaien’s – wrote only a handful of works. Collot’s new recording shows his Piano Sonata to be one of the great achievements of serialism When Jean Barraqué ...

The composer Milton Babbitt was the high priest of American academic serialism and a pioneer in the field of electronic music. He was also an influential university teacher whose theories achieved ...

This is the final article in “The Postmodern Temper,” a series which examined the contemporary state of various artistic fields. Publication is made possible with support from the “New Works” Program ...

The composer Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of Sergei Prokofiev) discusses how composers such as Schoenberg killed off 20th-century classical music for all but a small elite audience. Until the early ...

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 ...