To raise awareness for the plight of artists worldwide amidst the coronavirus pandemic, pianist and 2018 Gilmore Artist Igor Levit gives a 20-hour, live-streamed, marathon performance transcending ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Boredom is profound’: next month, virtuoso Igor Levit will perform Vexations by Erik Satie - Peter Rigaud Next month, one of ...

John Cale was actually one of the performers at the 1963 performance and recalled the details in his autobiography: “Between 9 and 10 September 1963 I was one of a relay team of pianists, under the ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Caitlin Horrocks about her debut novel, The Vexations. It's about French composer Erik Satie and his siblings. SIMON: One of the most haunting and evocative pieces of ...

Never has a piece of music been so aptly named as "Vexations," by Erik Satie. This wisp of melody, slow and attractive, and lasting about a minute and a half, vexes the pianist, because it is full of ...

In 1893, Erik Satie composed an enigmatic little piano piece titled “Vexations.” At the head of the score, he wrote, “To play this motif eight hundred forty times in a row, it would be advisable to ...

The eleven-hour performance of Erik Satie's Vexations at the Extended Play Festival of New Music was the latest iteration of what might be the longest-running musical meme. So what's meme-ish about ...

Who can tell how far avant-garde godfather Erik Satie (1866-1925) had his langue in his joue when he instructed performers of his Vexations, a wayward, two-line chorale, to repeat the piece 840 times?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The French composer Erik Satie felt compelled to scribble performance indications on his music, famously ...

A performance of Erik Satie’s piano piece Vexations can last 20 hours. But is it avant-garde art, or a misunderstood joke? Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...