Reporting from BOCHUM, Germany — As a phenomenon, the 1960s, argues British critic D.J. Taylor in a recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement, have had “more significance extracted from them than ...

For Steve McQueen, the “genius” of production designer Adam Stockhausen is his ability to manifest “lived-in worlds,” incredibly detailed sets that add a sense of weight and history to the story for ...

What could Karlheinz Stockhausen have been thinking? A composer whose name was once synonymous with futuristic modern music and who influenced everyone from the wildest avant-gardists to the Beatles, ...

In 1991, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the mystical showman of the musical avant-garde, was commissioned to write a string quartet for the Salzburg Festival. Being Stockhausen, he offered up the “Helicopter ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the most important and controversial postwar composers who helped shape a new understanding of sound through his pioneering electronic compositions, died at his home in ...

What do we mean when we say ‘opera’? Full-bodied women in viking helmets bellowing throatily with arms outstretched? Stuffed tuxedos in over-priced boxes braying bravos with champagne flowing? An ...

BERLIN -- Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose innovative electronic works made him one of the most important composers of the postwar era, has died at age 79. By The Associated Press BERLIN — Karlheinz ...

The urge to grandstand is human: Sometimes you feel you just have to wreck people’s self-serving illusions. Have a knockdown, drag-out. Nuke ’em. All in a good cause, you think: Moral rectitude—the ...

With a string quartet flying in helicopters, musicians suspended on giant swings and a dancing camel, Karlheinz Stockhausen's radical six-hour opera Mittwoch Aus Licht was thought to be unstageable - ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died today aged 79, was the leading pioneer of electronic music and of the new uses of physical space in the performance of music; he was regarded by many avant-garde ...