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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz listeners are all too familiar with the controversy that surrounded “downtown” Manhattan’s crossbreeding of jazz, rock, modern classical and world music during the 1970s and ’80s. Fewer may ...

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 ...