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"Those musicians, too hip for their own good, who dismiss Brubeck as square do so at their own loss."
— Taylor Ho Bynum remembers Dave Brubeck: http://nyr.kr/YFR8l6(Source: newyorker.com)
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The jazz pianist Dave Brubeck died on Wednesday in Norwalk, Connecticut, one day short of his ninety-second birthday…
Looking back at Dave Brubeck, who was profiled in the magazine in 1961: http://nyr.kr/11MxnHr
Photograph by Guy Le Querrec/Magnum.
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John Cage would have been a hundred years old tomorrow. Scratch that: Cage is a hundred. He remains a palpably vivid presence, still provoking thought, still spurring argument, still spreading sublime mischief. He may have surpassed Stravinsky as the most widely cited, the most famous and/or notorious, of twentieth-century composers. His influence extends far outside classical music, into contemporary art and pop culture…
Click-through to continue reading Alex Ross on The John Cage Century: http://nyr.kr/R3iv43
Photograph by Vincent Mentzel 1988/Hollandse Hoogte/Redux.
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The Enduring Henri Dutilleux→
The New York Philharmonic honors French composer Henri Dutilleux: http://nyr.kr/MSRb43
