Mesmerism therapy according to an anonymous French painting dated between 1778 and 1784. The woman on the right is the famous pianist and composer Maria Theresia von Paradis. Credit: Wellcome Images / ...
Each player in this trio addresses the beat in a spontaneous way, without constant chaos. A casual romp like this session makes for breezy listening. This is FRESH AIR. African American composer and ...
The word “mesmerism” comes from the name of an 18th-century German physician named Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1815). It is considered the forerunner of what is now known as “hypnosis,” although they are ...
And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: March 5th, 1815, 202 years ago today … the day German-born Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer died at the age of 80. Mesmer believed he could harness a force he ...
The multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey has spent two decades expanding the borders of jazz and fortifying its connections to contemporary classical music. But he takes a far different ...
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is an idiosyncratic and restless explorer. An accomplished percussionist, he is known for blurring, if not completely erasing, the boundaries between ...
This is FRESH AIR. African American composer and MacArthur fellow Tyshawn Sorey has written music for orchestra, chamber ensembles and opera companies and leads his own groups featuring improvising ...