BERLIN — Over the weekend, we wrote about some of the attractions of Germany's capital city for newcomers from a newcomer's perspective. One area there was not enough space to address in detail, as ...

Berlin Atonal defies the conventions of both a festival and an exhibition. It does not follow a unifying curatorial theme; instead, the experience is driven by sound and its interaction with space, ...

A common process contributes to organizing the interval structures in both tonal music and the atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg, a process he called "developing variation." This article shows how ...

I can imagine readers thinking to themselves what a nonsensical title this post bears – atonal music as a model for democracy? Really? What possible connection could there be? And yet, someone ...

I vaguely remember the first Atonal back in 1982. Apparently I performed at it with my band Die Unbekannten. I only know this because I still have the flyer. Dimitri “Leningrad” Hegemann had ...

Midgette writes for the Washington Post. Leon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of expressive, rigorous, atonal yet romantic music, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in ...

• Johnny Weir is pretty wonderful, and he embraces his individuality with a kind of fearlessness that has always impressed me. But even knowing those things about him, I was really moved by the ...

The German rail operator Deutsche Bahn has got a new plan for getting people in Berlin not to use drugs at one of its busiest stations: atonal music. But local residents are unimpressed by the ...

George Perle, the American music theorist and scholar who was widely regarded as the composer who put a human face on atonal music, has died. He was 93. Perle died Jan. 23 at his home in New York City ...