“Here’s our slogan,” Long Beach Opera’s interim managing director proudly announces during a recent conversation about the company’s upcoming season, “We’re not the Met!” For an art form hardly ...
Composer and music theorist Pauline Oliveros died Thursday at age 84, as reported by multiple outlets and confirmed by friends on her Facebook page. Known for her philosophy of "Deep Listening," ...
On each of the four Saturdays in April, people from around the world — music people, nonmusic people, critics trying to make ourselves useful — participated in an online Pauline Oliveros “sonic ...
While Pauline Oliveros' output has its high and low marks, the composer, accordionist and organizer is an undeniable force in new music. For fifty years she has pursued sonic experiments, and as the ...
It's understandable if Pauline Oliveros is not a top-of-mind name, even after more than five decades in music. The eighty-two year old composer has been far-removed from the mainstream as a pioneer in ...
Just a few days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and as California’s public spaces began to shut down one by one, Sean Griffin, a founder of the avant-garde opera ...
Pauline Oliveros, a pioneering composer, performer and musical thinker who influenced several generations of musicians with her call for a process she dubbed “deep listening,” died Thursday at age 84.
Pauline Oliveros created an influential body of recorded work as a composer and instrumentalist, but her greatest contribution may have been as a music philosopher, a role she filled with passion as ...
On the eve of a sprawling new festival, John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel and others recount how the state reinvigorated classical music. By Joshua Barone The premiere recording of Thomas ...