The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades ...

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It may be an acquired taste, but once music lovers develop an interest in the music of 20th-century composer Alban Berg, it can become a passionate preference. If you are timid sampling atonal music, ...

While the Bolshoi Ballet was finishing its New York run in Madison Square Garden last week (see above), the New York City Ballet was staging its season’s first new work, providing a striking contrast ...

George Perle, 93, the American music theorist and scholar who was widely regarded as the composer who put a human face on atonal music, died Jan. 23 at his home in New York after a long illness, ...

The singers looked like refugees from a college prom—the girls in powder blue tunics and the men in white dinner jackets. With their chubby-faced leader, they seemed in direct line of descent from ...

Leon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of expressive, rigorous, atonal yet romantic music, died Sept. 17 of congestive heart failure at his home in New York. He was 90. A pianist and ...