Pianist Scott Dunn delivers a 2012 performance of Satie's "Vexations" at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Safe at home this spring has not ...

Igor Levit will attempt to play Erik Satie's "Vexations" 840 times in a row this spring in London Sebastian Reuter/Getty Igor Levit is taking on one of classical music's most daunting challenges — ...

Everyone’s got their thing. Erik Satie, for example, only ate foods that were white. We’ll get a taste of his quirky music... and a "Surprise" Symphony, starting just after 9 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5 and ...

A Song For You (Gnossienne No. 1); Mood (Musica Universalis); Holding On To Beauty (Gnossienne No. 3); Peace (Gnossienne No. 2); Avec le Temps; D'Ou Venons-Nous (Gymnopedie No. 3); I Kiss Your ...

Even amid the tornado of cultural experimentation that defined La Belle Epoque—those four fertile decades in France that preceded World War I—Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a singularly windy eccentric.

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 A century after the ...

New York-based vocalist Tessa Souter is deservedly treasured among jazz fans, critics and musicians alike. Equally effective performing live and on her several fine recordings, she is a jazz singer ...

That artists have a tendency to be strange is not surprising. However, Erik Satie, who was a groundbreaking composer that lay the foundation for minimalism in 20th-century classical music, really ...

Stefani Art Gallery is delighted to present the unveiling of Erik Satie’s Apartment, an immersive painting/installation by acclaimed artist Gary Westford, accompanied by a live piano recital ...

Safe at home this spring has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer’s most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the ...

Safe at home has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer’s most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the inescapable ...