Arizona Repertory Theatre presents its closing show of the season, “”Violet,”” in Tornabene Theatre, and the performance entertains. The show follows a girl named Violet on her pilgrimage to Tulsa, ...

Defining Bang on a Can is hard. Founded in 1987 by composers David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe, it is a musical collective made up of composers and musicians dedicated to performing, ...

Before there was Minimalism there was Post-Minimalism. That might seem hardly feasible if you put your trust in time being an irreversible process. Theoretical physics, however, allows for a more open ...

Charlie Brown, the downtrodden hero of the "Peanuts" comic strip, leads a dog's life. But his dog, Snoopy, lives life to the fullest. Here's a beagle who writes novels, produces his own satirical sock ...

MINIMALISM is the elevation of tidiness, of less is more, of hip reserve, to art (to say nothing of advertising and kitchen decor). The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s flier for its “Minimalist Jukebox” ...

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four,” the avant-garde composer John Cage once said. “If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it ...

Inspiration can spark in the most mundane circumstances. In 1964, a young composer named Terry Riley was on his way to work — playing ragtime piano at San Francisco's Gold Street Saloon — when he had ...

Early on in The Concert for Bangladesh, the sound of Ravi Shankar’s group tuning up is received with applause from the Western audience, which has mistaken it for the actual music. Three decades later ...

Springing from the remains of several promising independent Washington, D.C., bands, the trio Antelope began in 2001, striving to reach the stripped-down essence of rock-verging-on-punk music. Then, ...

Philip Glass was a 39-year-old cabbie in 1976, when the New York premiere of his opera “Einstein on the Beach” turned him into an international sensation. Nearly a half-century later, he remains the ...

Minimalist Jukebox," the ambitious series produced by composer John Adams for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was kicked off in a fine, if somewhat scruffy, manner with an after-hours party of music ...