Ethan Iverson

Sir Harrison Birtwistle has always dared to ask the hard questions, searching for the most extreme expression that angular modernism can find.

Some composers are more about other music than others. Perhaps no one was about other music more than Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), the virtuosic...

Some of our favorite Talkhouse writers remember musicians who passed away in 2013.

While today “melancholy” simply means being sad, it used to mean a variety of introspective attitudes and, as they were called back then, humors.

Is there anything Joss Whedon can't do? He's a phenomenally successful director and screenwriter with gigantic films and TV shows like...