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 In a rarity for ...

The Pulitzer Prize winner, whose music enveloped everything from the horrors of the Vietnam War to the calls of humpback whales, died Sunday. George Crumb, an influential and deeply American composer, ...

For contemporary-music aficionados in the 1960s and '70s, the music of composer George Crumb seemed to capture the spirit of the time - both its paranoia and its hopeful strains - as succinctly as any ...

Chamber music pieces by George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and George Crumb. George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and George Crumb offer three unique sound worlds — yet they all maintain common roots. Hear ...

Cellist Molly Goforth, 17, performs George Crumb's Cello Sonata, 1st and 3rd mvts. Goforth started playing cello in the fourth grade. "I started out through a string recruitment program in Birmingham ...