Barbara Hannigan sings the songs of Erik Satie as if she’s sitting next to you, whispering and cooing across the kitchen table with sufficient breathiness, soft edges and exquisite spaciousness to ...

Safe at home 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 inescapable ...

No one came closer to the early 20th-century avant-garde ideal that an artist’s creations and his life should be inseparable than did composer Erik Satie. A Paris Conservatory dropout who supported ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Caitlin Horrocks about her debut novel, The Vexations. It's about French composer Erik Satie and his siblings. SIMON: One of the most haunting and evocative pieces of ...

New York-based vocalist Tessa Souter is deservedly treasured among jazz fans, critics and musicians alike. Equally effective performing live and on her several fine recordings, she is a jazz singer ...

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 ...

Even amid the tornado of cultural experimentation that defined La Belle Epoque—those four fertile decades in France that preceded World War I—Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a singularly windy eccentric.

That artists have a tendency to be strange is not surprising. However, Erik Satie, who was a groundbreaking composer that lay the foundation for minimalism in 20th-century classical music, really ...

Igor Levit will attempt to play Erik Satie's "Vexations" 840 times in a row this spring in London Sebastian Reuter/Getty Igor Levit is taking on one of classical music's most daunting challenges — ...

What is the purpose of a poem, an illustration or a nonsensical phrase in a score? If it makes musicians stop and think, that’s a good start. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim A century after the ...

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 ...