Today I heard–for the thousandth time– Satie’s famous solo piano tryptic 3 Gymopedies—the title refers to an ancient Spartan dance performed by naked men. Satie was an eccentric who gave his ...

Safe at home this spring has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer’s most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the ...

My friend Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert, a cat lover like myself, sent me this video of Henri, a very French kitty. The music—most appropriate for this video– is by Erik Satie, who left the Paris Conservatory ...

This is starting to look like the year of Erik Satie. How else could there be two magnificent albums dedicated to his music? The first was Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen's The Satie Project (Daywood ...

Valadon posed for Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec before being mentored in her early painting career by Degas, who recognised her as ‘one of us’.

Classical pianist Igor Levit took to a London stage on April 24 for an epic musical endurance test directed by performance artist Marina Abramovic. Levit was among the first people to solo play ...

In his splendid book on the French avant-garde during the 30 years preceding World War I, Roger Shattuck describes composer Erik Satie as “a musician more heard of than heard.” James Valcq is trying ...

The spare, haunting melodies of composer and pianist Erik Satie have inspired a wide range of musicians, from his contemporary Claude Debussy to The Velvet Underground's John Cale. Guitarists Jonathan ...

When it comes to Erik Satie’s “Vexations,” I have thus far been a grazer. On the several opportunities I have had to experience a performance of the work, which entails repeating the same page of ...

New Music by Composer/Piano/Brass Erik Satie, with vocals by Debbie Lease, now available. A contemporary collection of styles reminiscent of Louis Armstrong, Bix Biderbecke, Rafael Mendez, Miles Davis ...