This collection of works from across Grisey’s creative life offers a welcome chance to explore this architect of ‘spectralism’ Even if he had written just one work – Quatre Chants pour Franchir le ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Eerie coincidences make the composer’s final work, “Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold,” seem like a requiem written for himself. By Jeffrey Arlo ...

In his magnificent “Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil” (“Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold”), the French composer Gérard Grisey undertook a sweeping reckoning with the specter of death, setting ...

The late composer's mastery of a gigantic spectrum of sound, texture and feeling makes his work some of the most special of the late 20th century The 1999 premiere of French composer Gérard Grisey's ...

“Apollo Frequencies” is a new series that explores music that seems to come from another world. The first edition deals with French composer Gérard Grisey’s sounds from deep space. In May 1969, two ...

Gérard Grisey (1946-98) first heard the deep sound of the cosmos in 1985, in Berkeley, Calif. There, the French composer associated with the spectralist school met astrophysicist Joe Silk, who played ...

Gerard Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques is a ground-breaking work which defies all assumptions about what music "ought" to be. Not for nothing did the composer describe it as "a great laboratory", ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Friday night, REDCAT was packed. A red-blooded audience filled every ...

Few composers could claim to have initiated a whole style. Debussy is one; Webern, another; Gérard Grisey – who would have been 70 this month – is a third. Grisey was the initiator of spectral music ...