The fourth episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, “Vox in Excelso,” has a major reference to one of the most beloved episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. And it’s a quote from the Doctor, a ...

Jazz has had its fair share of musical revolutionaries. Charlie Parker in the 1940s. Ornette Coleman in the late '50s and John Coltrane in the '60s. Erik Satie and Claude Debussy were revolutionaries ...

Animation. The theme is Weightlessness. Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings, also from tensions and gravitational limitations. A lyric Eric Satie track accompanies the film.

Nu je boek uit is, vroeg de hoofdredacteur na de presentatie (grandioos succes), ga je dan nog wel door met de rubriek? De belangrijkste en bekendste componisten zullen immers inmiddels wel behandeld ...

An eccentric composer and figure of artistic Paris during the Belle Époque, Erik Satie left discreet traces that are capable of rekindling the imagination. From his tiny Montmartre rooms to the Chat ...

BOWLER-HATTED eccentric, brolly-toting mystic, compulsive iconoclast and self-destructive drinker. These were aspects of Erik Satie I encountered as a teenager when, enthralled by his music on the ...

Als u ooit op zoek bent geweest naar een afspeellijst om u te helpen ontspannen, focussen of in slaap vallen, bent u wellicht op de muziek van Erik Satie gestoten. De kans is groot dat u zijn ...

Donald Macleod explores the life of maverick composer Erik Satie, the inventor of “furniture music”, whose innovations delighted and divided France. Satie's compositions – and their peculiar ...

Performances in N.Y.C. A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, more complicated career. Credit...Photo12/Universal ...

The dapper composer who invented background music was driven by a profound if offbeat religiosity. By Sue Prideaux “A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.” Ian ...

To mark the centenary of Erik Satie’s death, pianist Alexandre Tharaud releases a landmark recording featuring 27 never-before-heard pieces reconstructed from forgotten manuscripts Nearly a century ...

Pipedown is the campaign to get rid of the scourge of unwanted piped background muzak, whether on hold on the telephone, in a restaurant, or queuing in a supermarket. The late pianist Alfred Brendel ...