Naomi: Right, I've got one more example of change and experimentation in 20th Century music. Naomi: One of the pioneers of Impressionism was the French composer, Claude Debussy.

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1913) Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s crowning masterpiece was penned in the 20th century. The Rite of Spring is a ballet composed by Stravinsky for Sergei’s ...

Critic Alex Ross, in his best-selling book The Rest Is Noise, takes a long, hard squint at musical Modernism in its context, by way of what he calls “the 20 th century heard through its music.” ...

The concept of background or “ambient” music has a long pedigree. The idea was coined by one of France’s most eccentric ...

From Krzysztof Penderecki to Arvo Pärt, the great composers of Central Europe have used music to convey the ineffable and the divine. Here we explore these artists whose work speaks to the weight of ...

Gershwin, whose music she has since championed through two albums and countless concert programs, is just one example. ... When we look at 20th-century and 21st-century American music, ...