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Mr. Crumb wrote startling works, sometimes with political themes, and challenged musicians to employ new techniques, vocalize and move about the stage.

Instructions included singing into a cardboard tube, walking slowly offstage while performing, and ‘expel breath violently, like a sneeze’

T HE INSTRUMENT was new and shiny, trailing black cables across the stage, and Chick Corea did not much like the look of it. Nor, as he sat down and tapped the keys in his clear, springy style, did he much like the sound of it. The year was 1968, he was in trumpeter Miles Davis’s band, and he was sitting at a Fender Rhodes electric piano. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. This was the future, though. He and Miles had been wondering for a while whether jazz could move authentically from acoustic instruments to electric, fuse with rock and rhythm ‘n’ blues...

Classical CDs Weekly: Stravinsky, Weinberg, Igor Levit | reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs Weekly: Stravinsky, Weinberg, Igor Levit Classical CDs Weekly: Stravinsky, Weinberg, Igor Levit Colourful ballets, neglected chamber music and a great German pianist's lockdown album by Graham RicksonSaturday, 12 December 2020   Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx)   Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx) Petrushka is usually played in the 1947 revision, so it’s a pleasure to hear the 1911 original. The musical material is identical...