Satie would, without doubt, come top of any list of eccentric composers. After all, can you imagine anyone else writing a set of Flabby Preludes for a Dog or Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear? His ...

There's one in every crowd. 23,000 people were behaving themselves at Berlin's outdoor theater, the Waldbuehne, and just one thought it was a rock concert. Ah, the joy of live performance. Sir Simon ...

Erik Satie was a French composer and pianist born in 1866. He was, to put it lightly, eccentric. He started his musical career playing in cabaret-cafes in Montmartre in Paris, and did not complete his ...