If you wanted to conjure up the quintessential reclusive unsung genius of the musical world - an artist to make Emily Dickinson look like a celebrated glad-hander by comparison - you could not do ...

Mr. MAYNER: Conlon Nancarrow was writing the early version of a mash-up -combining different melodies and different time signatures. He knew this was too hard for just about anyone to play so he ...

Saturday sees Texarkana honor the centennial of native son and celebrated composer Conlon Nancarrow. Texarkana College Department of Music presents "Conlon Nancarrow: A Centennial Celebration" at 7:30 ...

To anyone who met Conlon Nancarrow in the 1930s — or ‘40s, or ‘50s — he must have seemed like a bit of a lost sheep. A thinly educated trumpeter whose father was the mayor of Texarkana, he drifted ...

The American composer Conlon Nancarrow, who died in 1997, must be a tantalizing presence for performing musicians. He wrote some of the 20th century's most dazzling and inventive music, but he didn't ...

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In 1989, after decades of isolation creating intricate rhythmic studies for player piano, the great American composer Conlon Nancarrow wrote a set of three pieces for pianist Ursula Oppens that ...

Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) was one of the first American composers to specifically compose pieces for a machine to play. Nancarrow faced an uphill battle in getting his music played, as it was ...

As an English major, Web editor, and gearhead, my favorite literary metaphor of the 20th century comes from William Gaddis’s two essays on the player piano — Stop Player. Joke #4 and “Agape Agape: The ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Avant garde rock star Frank Zappa said his music sounded like “bionic ragtime”, the U.S. government considered him an unwelcome communist and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s ...