Alfred Carlson, 85, a composer of atonal music for chamber orchestras and other small groups, died July 29 in Los Angeles of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Born in Chicago and brought ...

Anne Akiko Meyers is on a mission to bring new music to the world. The ambitious violinist has an insatiable appetite for new ...

Gimme some of that ol’ atonal music. It lingers in my ears! Schoenberg and Alban Berg were the genre’s pioneers. Keep your Bach and Chopin, they’re melodic and passe. Gimme some of that ol ...

But in order to understand his argument and Schoenberg’s innovations, I needed to appreciate the difference between tonal and atonal music—music, as Tommasini put it in the essay, ...

On a bare stage beneath a jagged ice floe, a chorus of penguins sang a solemn farewell to the explorer, who had just lurched off into the Antarctic night. The audience was not sure what it was ...

His “Method of Composing With Twelve Tones Which Are Related Only With One Another” outlined the procedures for what became known as “atonal” music, breaching nearly every precept of the ...

The 21st is the second century for music conservatories and contemporary concert composers to put forth the notion that atonal music is preferable to the tonal music that defined western civilization ...

But the music the Gregg Smith Singers performed last ... Rhythm & Pitch. Ernst Krenek’s atonal Santa Fe Time Table was in itself enough to put a tremolo in the larynx of most singers.

Berlin Atonal has shared the first wave of acts playing its 2025 edition this August. More than 100 acts in total will play across the five-day event, with more acts set to be announced over the ...