Shortly after the famous 1971 riot in the Attica Correctional Facility in New York that killed 33 prisoners and 10 prison employees, Frederic Rzewski wrote a 19-minute composition for piano based on a ...

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 ...

Music and politics go hand in hand for Frederic Rzewski, the veteran avant-gardist whose sensibility is informed by an urge to address social iniquities. His protests, more often than not, are couched ...

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, a formidable composer and pianist who wrote and performed music that was at once stylistically eclectic and politically committed, died Saturday at his summer home in Montiano, Italy ...

When Lisa Moore turned 60 her husband commissioned a Rzewski score for her. Now, she has recorded a Rzewski album, showcasing a wide range of emotion. By Seth Colter Walls Rzewski, who died on ...

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, ...

Pianist Ursula Oppens To Honor Late Composer Frederic Rzewski In Kaufman Music Center's Marathon Concert Series, May 6 Ms. Oppens is slated to perform Friendship, a piece the composer dedicated to her ...

One segment of musical Washington not on hand at the Kennedy Center for opening night of the “Ring” Saturday night could be found at Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress for an intriguing ...

We learn of the death of the composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski. In tribute, we revisit a Gramophone 'Contemporary Composer' article written by Jed Distler and first published on our August 2018 ...