Terry Riley is an American composer and musician, born June 24, 1935, in Colfax, California. He’s a pioneer of minimalism in music, known for his innovative use of repetition, tape loops, and ...

Inspiration can spark in the most mundane circumstances. In 1964, a young composer named Terry Riley was on his way to work — playing ragtime piano at San Francisco’s Gold Street Saloon — when he had ...

On April 5, 2024, cellist and producer Maya Beiser will release her newest solo album, Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C, on her Islandia Music Records label. On it, Maya recreates Terry Riley's In C as ...

On June 24, Terry Riley turned 90. It was a momentous occasion for American music that got little attention in the U.S. But Sunday night at the Ford, Bang on a Can All-Stars will pay tribute in a ...

Minimalism met rock in 1972 when Pete Townshend wrote “Baba O’Riley.” The song’s cyclic, arpeggiating riff was inspired by ...

The Who’s Pete Townshend is among the artists participating in a 90th birthday tribute to experimental music legend Terry Riley as part of the fourth Long Play festival curated by Bang on a Can, The ...

As far back as the ’60s, Terry Riley began changing the rules of contemporary classical composition. His early classic piece In C was among the first examples of what has (somewhat incongruously) come ...

For almost an hour on Sunday, April 16, Buchanan Park became a meditative concert space. Close to 20 musicians from in and around Lancaster County gathered to play composer Terry Riley’s influential ...

Riley's pioneering piece, which premiered 60 years ago, leaves many decisions up to the performers. It helped launch the movement known as... 'In C' Forever: The eternal evolution of Terry Riley's ...

Inspiration can spark in the most mundane circumstances. In 1964, a young composer named Terry Riley was on his way to work — playing ragtime piano at San Francisco's Gold Street Saloon — when he had ...