Performance When Portland composer Jack Gabel received a 2005 Oregon Arts Commission fellowship to create a dance score for the dance company headed by his wife, Agnieszka Laska, the daily news was filled with re ...   More

Performance For more than a decade, New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross has been showing readers why music composed in the past century—or the past week—matters. Still safely under 40 and a fa ...   More

Music If you were silly enough to compile a list of candidates for the mythical title of Greatest Living American Musician, along with Bob Dylan and Neil Young, BB King and Smokey Robinson and Doc Watson and Steve Reich and all the rest, you'd have to give strong consideration to the snowy- haired and bearded 77-year-...   More

Music Stories For the past three decades, an irrefutable signifier of cool has been the prominent placement of an ECM record jacket or CD in your dorm or living room. One of the original indie label successes, ECM' ...   More