Tim Page

Playing Together

In the late 1980s, when composers and audiences moved in deeply divided circles, Bang on a Can’s commitment to diverse programming began to break down the divisions within contemporary music.

Late Bloomer

The Wizard of Salzburg

The Perfectionist

‘Toscanini: Musician of Conscience’ by Harvey Sachs

An Elusive Cold War Star

The strange and complicated life of pianist Van Cliburn

John Cage’s Gift to Us

He opened doors—floodgates, really—and dissolved definitions

The Pleasures of Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss’s path long overshadowed a clear assessment of his enormous accomplishments as a composer of opera and orchestral music.

A Moment for Stockhausen

Though he ranked alongside Pierre Boulez and John Cage as a controversial avatar of all that was new in classical music, for the past thirty years most of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s compositions have been all but impossible to hear.

The Hall of Horowitz

Vladimir Horowitz Live at Carnegie Hall offers extensive documentation of the pianist’s performances ranging from 1943 through 1976.

Listening to Elliott Carter

It is now just a year since the death of the composer Elliott Carter and his absence still seems a little unreal.

They Changed Opera

The collapse of the New York City Opera last month was many things, but it could hardly be called unexpected. Indeed, that the company had kept going for seventy years was more than a little amazing.