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 ...

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 ...

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The composer Edgard Varese defined music as "organized sound." Meant to get to the heart of shifting sonic trends in the 20th century, and to his own avant garde music, Varese's definition should be ...

However, the afternoon was dominated by those small ensemble masterpieces from the two decades after Varèse overthrew his Parisian training for good and emigrated to New York: Hyperprism, Octandre, ...

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 ...

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