A Song For You (Gnossienne No. 1); Mood (Musica Universalis); Holding On To Beauty (Gnossienne No. 3); Peace (Gnossienne No. 2); Avec le Temps; D'Ou Venons-Nous (Gymnopedie No. 3); I Kiss Your ...

New York-based vocalist Tessa Souter is deservedly treasured among jazz fans, critics and musicians alike. Equally effective performing live and on her several fine recordings, she is a jazz singer ...

The absurd titles of Erik Satie’s compositions would provoke howls of laughter at concerts in early 20th-century Paris. Some critics condemned Satie’s eccentricities — but a new book argues that his ...

Composer Erik Satie was both eccentric and original. Dances from Knossos on Crete inspired his set of Gnossiennes. But unlike traditional dances, Satie's Gnossiennes are written without bar lines.

MONTPELIER — Erik Satie would be a joke as a composer if his music hadn't been so good. In fact, though never quite successful in his lifetime — and not much so after his death in 1925 — he was ...

What is the purpose of a poem, an illustration or a nonsensical phrase in a score? If it makes musicians stop and think, that’s a good start. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim A century after the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. No one came closer to the early 20th-century avant-garde ideal that an artist’s creations and his life should be ...

Written on the score for his piano pieces called "Gnossiennes," French composer Erik Satie's advice to the performer is "think about yourself." We hear the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet play ...