In the late 1970s, American composer Morton Feldman began writing exceptionally lengthy compositions. Not only did these works push the boundaries of traditional concert duration, but more importantly ...

Feldman should know. He was an extraordinary, pioneering composer who made an impressive and unique contribution to 20th-century American music. He also was Edgar Varese Professor of Composition at ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife),” for the 50th anniversary of the Houston space, closely echoes Morton Feldman’s ...

The MATA Festival of New Music will return for its 28th year with INTERVAL: IN BETWEEN SILENCE AND STASIS, running May 21–23 at the DiMenna Center in New York City, with a kickoff event on May 20 at ...

In our short-attention-span society, the act of sitting in a concert hall for 247 minutes to hear a single piece of instrumental music may be one of the most radical activities possible. About two ...

The Department of Music will commemorate the centennial birthday of Morton Feldman, one of America’s most influential postwar composers and a pivotal figure in UB’s musical history, with a series of ...

Saving Abstraction takes up the conflicted history of Morton Feldman's most important collaboration--his work with Dominique and John de Menil on music for the Rothko Chapel in Houston. These ...

The experimental American composer Morton Feldman would have turned 100 years old this week. He was known for pieces that were quiet, spare, unsettling and sometimes hourslong. As The New York Times ...

With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip ...