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Terry Riley

March 2024

  • School of rock? … (L-R) Little Richard, Joanna Newsom and Metallica.

    Pop! goes the curriculum: songs to inspire primary school children

    Keir Starmer is on a personal mission to promote music to the under-11s. From rock’n’roll to Jonathan Richman, our writers suggest songs for an alternative schooling

June 2021

  • Jon Hassell in 2009

    Jon Hassell, avant garde US composer, dies aged 84

    Family and fellow musicians pay tribute to inventor of influential ‘fourth world’ musical aesthetic

July 2020

  • Jon Hassell

    Jon Hassell, music's great globetrotter: 'Be more aware of the rest of the world!'

    The 83-year-old is heralded by everyone from Bono to Basquiat for his ‘fourth world’ vision for music – and pop has caught up with him

October 2018

  • Terry Riley and Gyan Riley at Tusk festival in Gateshead.

    Tusk festival review – multisensory showcase of sonic adventures

    Terry Riley, one-note symphonies and bearded men in dresses all find their place in this uncompromising celebration of experimental music

July 2018

  • Terry Riley performing at Oval Space, London.

    Terry Riley review – father and son deliver gleefully chaotic minimalism

    The composer, aided by guitarist son Gyan, sounds like Bach doing bebop during this series of joyously ramshackle improvisations

June 2018

  • Gavin Bryars ’ haunting, ethereal Jesus Blood, the UK composer leading a festival ensemble — including young musicians from Music Generation Louth. Book of Hours festival / Louth contemporary music

    Book of Hours review – tender minimalism to restless bravura

    The highlight of Louth Contemporary Music Society’s varied programme was Gavin Bryars’ Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which brought a tear to the eye

June 2017

  • Terry Riley, Sofia Gubaidulina, Philip Glass Louth Music Preview

    'It’s just me, on the phone in my son’s bedroom.' The church hall that became contemporary music’s hottest venue

    How does a small Irish border town pull in the likes of Terry Riley and Philip Glass? Eamonn Quinn, the man behind Louth’s contemporary music society, reveals all

November 2016

  • Captain Sensible … on stage with the Damned, 2016

    The playlist
    Captain Sensible's playlist – Soft Machine, Mylène Farmer, Terry Riley and more

    Forty years after helping to form the Damned, the Captain picks a punk-free playlist of all-time favourites

September 2016

  • Terry Riley at the piano.

    Terry Riley review – in the groove with the daddy of repetition

    The avant-garde composer led a leisurely survey of recent work, aided by son Gyan on guitar and the London Contemporary Orchestra, which built to the thrilling climax of his masterpiece, In C

June 2016

  • Ragazze Quartet

    Riley: In C, Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector CD review – fun, breezy and cheesy

October 2015

  • Terry Riley

    Terry Riley: 'I haven’t felt nailed down to anything'

    The contemporary composer celebrates his 80th birthday this year and shows no sign of slowing down, with a blowout weekend at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust on tap. Just don’t call him a minimalist

July 2015

  • Fruitful ... Terry Riley's long-time collaborators, the Kronos quartet.

    Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector: Music of Terry Riley CD review – gentle and humane

    An 80th-birthday collection that celebrates Riley’s rich and lengthy creative partnership with the Kronos
  • Terry Riley

    Terry Riley review – minimalist shaman still delivering joyous futurism at 80

    A mixed programme of new orchestral pieces and extended solo freakouts from one of music’s great experimenters proves hypnotic, ecstatic and somehow reassuring
  • Little People by David Gilliver.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: minimalist songs

    Stripped back, pared down, sparse or pure? Suggest music that in sound or lyrics expresses clarity or simplicity distilled down to its fighting weight, says Peter Kimpton

March 2015

  • Telephone operators

    The playlist
    The playlist: experimental music – Africa Express, Colin Webster, Rutger Zuydervelt, Laurie Spiegel and more

    The funkiest version of Terry Riley’s In C ever recorded and a project on 1950s telephone operators – consider your mind expanded

December 2014

  • africa express

    Africa Express Presents… Terry Riley’s In C Mali review – conceptual masterpiece gets a charming update

    Terry Riley’s 50-year-old piece gets an update thanks to a group of Malian musicians, Damon Albarn and Brian Eno, writes Paul Mardles

November 2014

  • Terry Riley In C Mali africa express recording Bijou Lil Silva Andre de Ridder Jeff Wootton

    Terry Riley’s masterpiece – and minimalism, African style

    It can be over in 15 minutes. It can last several hours. It can be done with a Wurlitzer – or 20 guitars. Now In C, the defining work of minimalist music has been tackled by Damon Albarn and Africa Express. Its composer Terry Riley talks to Philip Oltermann

October 2013

  • Transcender in C – review

    Reinterpretations by Pantha Du Prince and Matthew Herbert of Terry Riley's In C wisely avoided the reverential or wacky, writes Ben Beaumont-Thomas

January 2013

  • Composer Terry Riley, 1998

    A guide to contemporary classical music
    A guide to Terry Riley's music

    Tom Service: His composition In C was a minimalist masterpiece, but these days Terry Riley takes in life, the universe and everything

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