Philip Glass

At first glance, the ramshackle structure looks like some-thing out of Spanky and "Our Ganga kid-size shantytown cobbled together without adult supervision from old lumber and junkyard castoffs. This is no playground, however. The Music Box, in the historic Bywater section of New Orleans, is a new performance space consisting of nine shacks, rigged by a team of musicians, artists, inventors and tinkerers to coax novel sounds from salvaged building materials—musical architecture. Read More

Festival General Director Nigel Redden says the range of different performances at this year's festival is as broad as it has ever been. Read More

At the core of this documentary about the recording of the Graceland album by Paul Simon and whole batches of cherished South African musical collaborators is a dialectic about the role of art in politics, life during (civil) wartime, and how societal evil can be vanquished by various creative means. Read More

Full reviews of recent classical performances: nytimes.com/classical. ★ Read More

With his new work, Jazz Miniatures for Double Quartet, Alexis Cuadrado continues to define his compositional voice following his recent impressive works, A Lorca Soundscape and Noneto Ibérico. Read More

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 14, 2012 The 2012 World Science Festival ( http://www.worldsciencefestival.com ) today announced an impressive line-up of cutting-edge science programs for its fifth anniversary season, May 30th to June 3rd, 2012 with more than 50 events designed to make the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating. Read More

Director Joe Berlinger's fascinating, immersive documentary Under African Skies celebrates the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon's landmark Graceland album and also examines the firestorm of controversy that it ignited. Read More

A young composer navigates the murky zone between making difficult music and easy listening. Read More

BENJAMIN MILLEPIED In 2006 I had a commission from the Paris Opera Ballet, and I decided to use the "Einstein on the Beach" music. Read More

We cover a lot of artists who are older, but often we're covering newer rappers, we're covering newer rock musiicans. Read More