In 1885, a 22-year-old Dutch woman named Johanna Bonger met Theo van Gogh, the younger brother of the artist, who was then making a name for himself as an art dealer in Paris. History knows Theo as the steadier of the van Gogh brothers, the archetypal emotional anchor, who selflessly managed Vincent’s erratic path through life, but he had his share of impetuosity. He asked her to marry him after o
The last time Keith Jarrett performed in public, his relationship with the piano was the least of his concerns. This was at Carnegie Hall in 2017, several weeks into the administration of a divisive new American president. Mr. Jarrett — one of the most heralded pianists alive, a galvanizing jazz artist who has also recorded a wealth of classical music — opened with an indignant speech on the polit
The graphic designer Ed Benguiat in an undated photo. “The most beautiful thing in the world,” he once said, “is a blank piece of paper.”Credit...Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives/Visual Arts Foundation Ed Benguiat, a celebrated graphic designer known for his expertise in typefaces — including the one you see at the top of the print and web editions of this newspaper — started his des
Dare we compare the five notes of Ennio Morricone’s famous “coyote call” in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (starring Clint Eastwood, shown here) with the four opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony?Credit...United Artists/Sunset Boulevard, via Corbis, via Getty Images Ennio Morricone was more than one of the world’s great soundtrack composers — he was one of the world’s great composers, per
The world of “field recordings” is cinéma vérité for the ear: the sounds of natural phenomenon, occasionally from far-flung places, documenting the unreachable, the unexpected and the heretofore inaudible. Listening to these recordings of chattering animals, bustling ecosystems and roaring weather systems can be an experience that blurs the boundaries of music and chance, documentary and art, new
Hal Willner was new in New York, working as an assistant to a record producer named Joel Dorn, when Mr. Dorn called him aside after a session one night. “You’re not going home yet, baby,” Mr. Willner remembered his boss telling him. It was 1974. Mr. Dorn had produced enormously successful records for Bette Midler and Roberta Flack, and experimental jazz albums that Mr. Willner loved. We’re going o
LOS ANGELES — “Faster alone, further together,” Brad Pitt murmured. Over his left shoulder hung Mars, reddish-brown and heartbreakingly small, while to his right, the much grander Jupiter was lit up like a disco ball. We were seated opposite each other on the lowest level of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, inhabiting a closed-off exhibition called “Depths of Space,” mulling stoic men. Pit
In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthful
The American musician Steve Gunn first heard of Sachiko Kanenobu a few years ago, when, at the advice of friends, he listened to her debut album “Misora,” recorded in Tokyo in 1972. Gunn, 41, is best known for his neo-folk guitar playing (and as a former member of Kurt Vile’s backing band, the Violators) and has more recently moved into producing albums for like-minded artists. He was instantly ta
Glenn Gould’s heavily marked-up score for Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, used in his 1981 recording, will be sold at auction.Credit...Bonhams Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Gould, whose first major-label recording was a classic 1955 account of the “Goldbergs,” rerecorded them more than 25 years later. He then die
My younger brother, Noah, and I were recently arguing, again, about music. The subject of our current impasse was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” — the song, not the album. (I love it. He hates it.) I was beginning to get frustrated by how much of our lives are spent arguing about music. So I decided to do something about it the only way I know how: I analyzed data. I couldn’t think of a way to
Kenji Endo at home in Tokyo in 2017 making a W, which means “wasshoi” — the chant of people who lead traditional festival floats in Japan. One of Mr. Endo’s albums is called “Tokyo Wasshoi.”Credit...Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times “Even a Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973,” released this month by the eclectic American label Light in the Attic, is a primer on how Japanese musi
transcript Muhammad Ali: ‘What’s My Name?’The three-time world champion boxer Muhammad Ali has died. Current and former New York Times reporters and columnists talk about their memories of him and how he became an international icon. Ali: Well, as I understand, I’m Cassius Marcellus Clay, the sixth and my great-great grandfather was a Kentucky slave when he was named after some great Kentuckian, b
Gunther Schuller, a composer, conductor, author and teacher who coined the term Third Stream to describe music that drew on the forms and resources of both classical and jazz, and who was its most important composer, died on Sunday in Boston. He was 89. The cause was complications of leukemia, said his personal assistant, Jennique Horrigan. Mr. Schuller, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his orchestr
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