My friend Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert, a cat lover like myself, sent me this video of Henri, a very French kitty. The music—most appropriate for this video– is by Erik Satie, who left the Paris Conservatory ...

Pianist Scott Dunn delivers a 2012 performance of Satie's "Vexations" at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Safe at home this spring has not ...

Phil Kline is a composer who makes music in many genres and contexts, from experimental electronics and sound installations to songs, choral, theater, chamber and orchestral music. Part of Q2 Music.

Today I heard–for the thousandth time– Satie’s famous solo piano tryptic 3 Gymopedies—the title refers to an ancient Spartan dance performed by naked men. Satie was an eccentric who gave his ...

Friday, March 17, marks the 150th birthday of José Maria Vicente Ferrer, Francisco de Paola, Patricio Manuel Contamine, better known to his friends — and history — as Patrice Contamine de Latour, a ...

Lincoln Center’s 2019 Mostly Mozart Festival, running from July 10 through August 10, will present five artistically distinct, large-scale productions, each bringing new perspective and interpretation ...

In his splendid book on the French avant-garde during the 30 years preceding World War I, Roger Shattuck describes composer Erik Satie as “a musician more heard of than heard.” James Valcq is trying ...