William Bolcom
Plenty of classical composers like to borrow a snippet from pop music, or throw in a little reference to a well-known song in a piece of "serious music." William Bolcom prefers to go whole hog. WNYC's Sara Fishko talked to Bolcom for our series on living composers and their relationships with other musicians.
- William Bolcom's website
- Buy William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Buy Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840"
- Buy Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite
