Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook When Lisa Moore turned 60 her husband commissioned a Rzewski score for her. Now, she has recorded a Rzewski album, showcasing a wide ...

The New York Philharmonic’s next music leader, slowly revealing facets of his personality, used his latest visit to showcase his political conscience. By Joshua Barone When Lisa Moore turned 60 her ...

This Friday, A Far Cry, the Boston-based string ensemble, presents a Jordan Hall concert including Frederic Rzewski’s “Les Moutons de Panurge.” The 1969 piece finds the Westfield-born Rzewski’s ...

The last wonted Walt Disney Concert Hall program this year, barring a miracle COVID-19 cure, was on March 10. The pandemic had just begun to divide people from one another, and attendance was said to ...

Frederic Rzewski, the American-born composer who rejected both serialism and minimalism in his struggle to create a significant body of work over the past half-century, much of it politically themed, ...

Igor Levit’s first recording for Sony was of Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas, and his second of Bach’s six keyboard partitas. His latest release features monumental works by both of those ...

Composing, as we usually think of it, is the first part of a two-step relay: The composer writes notes on a piece of paper and hands it off to the performer, who makes them sound. But there's another ...

Bobby Mitchell captures the intimacy and complexity of his friend's compositions in a new album, Frederic Rzewski: Late Piano Works Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...

Frederic Rzewski, an American-born composer and pianist who worked in manifold musical genres throughout a career that spanned 60 years, died June 26 in Montiano, Italy. He was 83. His publicist, ...

The music of the American composer Frederic Rzewski, who has died aged 83 after a heart attack, drew on his flair for improvisation as a pianist and strong leftwing political engagement. Invention and ...

In the rarefied, ivory-tower world of new music, the formidable American composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski comes as a blast of fresh air. The titles of his pieces tell you this is a man who engages ...

American composer, now resident in Belgium, of mostly chamber, vocal and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a pianist. Prof. Rzewski studied music ...