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 ...

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 ...

In 1893, Erik Satie composed an enigmatic little piano piece titled “Vexations.” At the head of the score, he wrote, “To play this motif eight hundred forty times in a row, it would be advisable to ...

Jazz has had its fair share of musical revolutionaries. Charlie Parker in the 1940s. Ornette Coleman in the late '50s and John Coltrane in the '60s. Erik Satie and Claude Debussy were revolutionaries ...

For more than three decades, WNYC host John Schaefer’s New Sounds has been a cherished destination for musically omnivorous listeners. On The Furthermore, Schaefer draws on his deep musical expertise ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The pianist livestreamed “Vexations,” a solo of four lines repeated 840 times, to evoke the crisis facing artists during the coronavirus pandemic. By ...