Julian Loida is a Boston-based percussionist, collaborator, and curator. In September 2019, he released his first full-length studio album, which he d...

The last episode of Art Music Perspectives delved into performers’ experience of pain and discomfort in playing the music of Galina Ustvolskaya. In th...

Soviet composer Galina Ustvolskaya wrote music that seemed to defy the rules of pain/injury prevention for pianists. Her pieces frequently ask the pia...

Messiaen includes a written account of his birdsong collecting tour in the preface to each movement of the Catalog. Read as a quasi-ethnographic accou...

Music history is full of examples of composers who used environmental sounds in their works, notably Ludwig van Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, in whic...

How does one translate sounds of the forest to the manuscript page, or even describe a natural sound in language? Do Messiaen’s transcriptions succeed...

An introduction to Olivier Messiaen’s epic, seven-volume work around birds in the composer’s homeland of France.  Special guest: Todd Welbourne, piani...