Mesmerism therapy according to an anonymous French painting dated between 1778 and 1784. The woman on the right is the famous pianist and composer Maria Theresia von Paradis. Credit: Wellcome Images / ...
Each player in this trio addresses the beat in a spontaneous way, without constant chaos. A casual romp like this session makes for breezy listening. This is FRESH AIR. African American composer and ...
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is an idiosyncratic and restless explorer. An accomplished percussionist, he is known for blurring, if not completely erasing, the boundaries between ...
The word “mesmerism” comes from the name of an 18th-century German physician named Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1815). It is considered the forerunner of what is now known as “hypnosis,” although they are ...
Using self-mesmerism I felt overtaken on a cellular level by a serene form of concentration. I began to accumulate pages and finish my projects. By Ingrid Rojas Contreras One thing I knew as an ...
The multi-instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey has spent two decades expanding the borders of jazz and fortifying its connections to contemporary classical music. But he takes a far different ...
As Watchmen's stunning sixth episode, "An Extraordinary Being," comes to a close, we've learned a lot about Will Reeves . First, well, he's Hooded Justice . There's that. We learn his past, his ...
This is FRESH AIR. African American composer and MacArthur fellow Tyshawn Sorey has written music for orchestra, chamber ensembles and opera companies and leads his own groups featuring improvising ...