Join Network for New Music to explore the cultural and intellectual ramifications of Milton Babbitt's music and ideas. The program includes the screening of an hour-long video documentary of Babbitt’s life and work, Portrait of a Serial Composer, produced by Robert Hilferty and Laura Karpman. And a panel discussion will include Karpman, David Rakowski, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, […]

Milton Babbitt, pioneer of serial and electronic music, is considered one of the most influential – and controversial – composers in the second half of the twentieth century. Babbitt was vitally interested in both jazz and popular music; he composed a snappy jazz ensemble work,  All Set, and a 1946 Broadway musical entitled The Fabulous Voyage.   […]