On June 24, Terry Riley turned 90. It was a momentous occasion for American music that got little attention in the U.S. But Sunday night at the Ford, Bang on a Can All-Stars will pay tribute in a ...

"One of the reasons this music has endured is because it has this continued engagement with pop music, and especially with rock music," Robin notes. "In the early '70s, The Who pay overt homage to ...

Today's episode is all about music history. First, musicologists Kerry O'Brien and William Robin tell NPR's Noah Caldwell about their new book, On Minimalism, and how the genre was born out of 1960s ...

Columbia Records saw Terry Riley’s “In C,” now rereleased for his ninetieth birthday, as a perfect anthem for the psychedelic Zeitgeist, but the mainstream couldn’t contain the composer’s utopian ...

This fall’s classical music calendar teems with 21st century music inspired by today’s political and spiritual concerts, written by composers from far beyond the usual Central European haunts — ...

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 ...

There’s a perfect song on Gimme Fiction, the new album from the chronically underrated Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon. It’s called I Summon You, and its narcotic powers are such that only after you ...

It’s hard to imagine what a piece of courtly baroque music would have in common with a love score written by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner, never mind a seminal work of 20th century ...

As one of the most highly-regarded indie game composers, Rich Vreeland aka Disasterpeace has made his name on the soundtracks to Fez, Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash, and many more. And as it turns out ...

A look at how Terry Riley, on the occasion of his 90th birthday celebration at the Ford, changed music with 'In C,' and what ...