Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In the early 1980s, John Adams’s “Grand Pianola Music” defied the seriousness of classical music. Not everyone liked that. By Joshua Barone It was ...

The future for pianolas in Australia looks grim, with the country's only manufacturer of pianola music set to close down. A collapse in demand for the music is sending the unique business to the wall.

Sooner or later, almost every composer grapples with Beethoven. From Brahms, who felt the “footsteps of a giant” haunting him, to contemporary artists like John Adams, the spirit of the great composer ...

The Mostly Mozart Festival's Grand Pianola Music concert on 2 August presented three pieces exploring the interaction between man and machine, in three very different ways. And there wasn't a pianola ...

"We have music that we love so much that we kind of want to get under the skin of that composer," Adams says. "For me taking not so much melodies but just little harmonic fragments, like fractals, ...

Eric Hawkes sits by his pianola pumping his feet as Percy Grainger's composition of Country Gardens plinks and plonks itself out with just his foot moving. "It's his original. His version is a lot ...

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If only all proponents of contemporary classical music could channel P.T. Barnum the way Patrick Scott did on Saturday night at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge. As artistic director of ...