This month's cover star is the great American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. The singer is drawing on a wealth of experience – ...

Everyone’s got their thing. Erik Satie, for example, only ate foods that were white. We’ll get a taste of his quirky music... and a "Surprise" Symphony, starting just after 9 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5 and ...

Igor Levit will attempt to play Erik Satie's "Vexations" 840 times in a row this spring in London Sebastian Reuter/Getty Igor Levit is taking on one of classical music's most daunting challenges — ...

Even amid the tornado of cultural experimentation that defined La Belle Epoque—those four fertile decades in France that preceded World War I—Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a singularly windy eccentric.

That artists have a tendency to be strange is not surprising. However, Erik Satie, who was a groundbreaking composer that lay the foundation for minimalism in 20th-century classical music, really ...

No one came closer to the early 20th-century avant-garde ideal that an artist’s creations and his life should be inseparable than did composer Erik Satie. A Paris Conservatory dropout who supported ...

Fans of French composer Erik Satie have choice words to describe him. Funny. Iconoclastic. Risk-taking.

The spare, haunting melodies of composer and pianist Erik Satie have inspired a wide range of musicians, from his contemporary Claude Debussy to The Velvet Underground's John Cale. Guitarists Jonathan ...

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 ...

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied ...

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 French composer specified ...