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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...