Riley's pioneering piece, which premiered 60 years ago, leaves many decisions up to the performers. It helped launch the movement known as... 'In C' Forever: The eternal evolution of Terry Riley's ...

Legendary experimental composer Steve Reich is turning 80 this year, and he’s celebrating in part by holding the 2016–2017 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair, a composing residency at the ...

Inspiration can spark in the most mundane circumstances. In 1964, a young composer named Terry Riley was on his way to work — playing ragtime piano at San Francisco's Gold Street Saloon — when he had ...