William Robin

William Robin is a music journalist. Below are 66 of 66 articles dotpiff indexes across 2 publications. Each links out to the original at the publisher.

• Michael Harrison, 67, Dies; Inventive Composer Who Played With Tuning — The New York Times · Apr 24, 2026
• When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture — The New Yorker · Aug 26, 2025
• Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85 — The New York Times · Jan 04, 2025
• Richard Crawford, Leading Scholar of American Music, Dies at 89 — The New York Times · Jul 30, 2024
• Catherine Christer Hennix, Spiritual Drone Musician, Dies at 75 — The New York Times · Nov 26, 2023
• Robert Black, Bass Virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, Is Dead at 67 — The New York Times · Jun 27, 2023
• Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Composer, Dies at 71 — The New York Times · Apr 02, 2023
• Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 — The New York Times · Jul 01, 2022
• R. Murray Schafer, Composer Who Heard Nature’s Music, Dies at 88 — The New York Times · Aug 23, 2021
• She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. — The New York Times · Jul 30, 2021
• Frederic Rzewski, Politically Committed Composer and Pianist, Dies at 83 — The New York Times · Jun 27, 2021
• Yoshi Wada, Inventive Creator of Sound Worlds, Dies at 77 — The New York Times · Jun 05, 2021
• How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s — The New York Times · Feb 18, 2021
• The 1918 Pandemic’s Impact on Music? Surprisingly Little — The New York Times · May 06, 2020
• 3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music. — The New York Times · Apr 23, 2020
• Charles Wuorinen, Uncompromising Modernist Composer, Dies at 81 — The New York Times · Mar 13, 2020
• A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels — The New York Times · Feb 07, 2020
• A Year After Kendrick Lamar, Will the Music Pulitzer Embrace Pop? — The New York Times · Apr 11, 2019
• Making Peace With the Music Left by an Omnivorous Young Composer — The New York Times · Jan 04, 2019
• At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ — The New York Times · Nov 09, 2018
• He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? — The New York Times · May 25, 2018
• The Pioneering Modernist Who Wrote an Audacious String Quartet — The New York Times · Oct 13, 2017
• Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 — The New York Times · Sep 01, 2017
• ‘Hamilton’ Is Known for Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? — The New York Times · Aug 11, 2017
• The Electronic Music That Tom Wolfe and the Kennedys Frugged To — The New York Times · Jul 13, 2017
• How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records — The New York Times · Jun 09, 2017
• What Du Yun’s Pulitzer Win Means for Women in Classical Music — The New Yorker · Apr 13, 2017
• Tony Conrad Was Such a Good Minimalist, He Was Almost Forgotten — The New York Times · Mar 24, 2017
• Q2 Music’s Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast — The New Yorker · Mar 04, 2017
• Philip Glass Celebrates His 80th Birthday With an 11th Symphony — The New York Times · Jan 27, 2017
• To Help Women in Opera, Several Institutions Arise — The New York Times · Dec 14, 2016
• Women Are Making Opera. And It’s Not Easy. — The New York Times · Dec 14, 2016
• The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles — The New York Times · Nov 08, 2016
• A MacArthur for the Composer Julia Wolfe — The New Yorker · Sep 22, 2016
• Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” — The New Yorker · Aug 29, 2016
• For Black Lives Matter, Classical Music Steps In — The New York Times · Jul 10, 2016
• Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule — The New York Times · Apr 12, 2016
• Hans Abrahamsen: Fame and Snow Falling on a Composer — The New York Times · Mar 09, 2016
• Protecting Alberto Ginastera From Oblivion — The New York Times · Mar 02, 2016
• Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome — The New York Times · Jan 13, 2016
• Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries — The New York Times · Nov 25, 2015
• ‘Hopscotch’ Takes Opera Into the Streets — The New York Times · Oct 30, 2015
• Classical Duets of a Singular Nature — The New York Times · Sep 30, 2015
• The Icelandic Composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Searching for Beauty Amid Brokenness — The New York Times · Aug 19, 2015
• La Monte Young Is Still Patiently Working on a Glacial Scale — The New York Times · Aug 19, 2015
• Carlos Chávez, Mexican Modernist — The New York Times · Jul 30, 2015
• A Symphonic Staple — The New York Times · Jun 12, 2015
• Celebrating 50 Years of New York Philharmonic Outdoor Concerts — The New York Times · Jun 12, 2015
• They’re Always Borrowing His Stuff — The New York Times · Feb 06, 2015
• Revisiting Our Neo-Classical Moment — The New York Times · Oct 31, 2014
• Great Divide at the Concert Hall — The New York Times · Aug 08, 2014
• Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter — The New Yorker · Jul 01, 2014
• How the National Anthem Has Unfurled — The New York Times · Jun 27, 2014
• His Music, Entwined With His Faith — The New York Times · May 16, 2014
• Classical Music Isn't Dead — The New Yorker · Jan 29, 2014
• Beethoven Again — The New Yorker · Jan 17, 2014
• Nico Muhly’s Team Spirit — The New Yorker · Oct 20, 2013
• Classical Saxophone, an Outlier, Is Anointed by John Adams Concerto — The New York Times · Sep 17, 2013
• Secrets Found Online, Shared Softly — The New York Times · Aug 02, 2013
• Looking Back at ‘Lenny’s Playlist’ — The New York Times · May 31, 2013
• Traveling 48 States, by Orchestra — The New York Times · Apr 19, 2013
• A Renaissance Man, and Many Eras Besides — The New York Times · Aug 02, 2012
• New Kind of Online Dating: Classical Competitions — The New York Times · Feb 12, 2012
• Bridging Genres And Generations On the Fly — The New York Times · Feb 03, 2012
• Haunting Unpredictability — The New York Times · Aug 04, 2011
• An Operatic Conundrum Untangled — The New York Times · May 06, 2011