Iconoclastic composer Julius Eastman died homeless almost three decades ago, and his work was nearly lost. But classical music finally has room for a queer black voice in the minimalist pantheon.

The growing Julius Eastman revival throughout the new music community in the past few years seems, particularly from hindsight, inevitable. It would be hard to find an artist who personifies so ...

Julius Eastman’s music is a pulsing minimalism reminiscent of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass. Its mystery echoes the life and career of this black, gay composer.

One such product of his time was Julius Eastman, born in 1940, who found himself straddling both academic and reactionary styles in the classical scene. Eastman held a teaching position in the ...

The details of his life in the years right after college are sketchier according to Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and his Music, a 2015 book co-edited by Renée Levine Packer and Mary Jane Leach ...

What Wild Up unearths on Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy is more than just music, it's a set of relations and modes of comporting in the world that risk trading fleeting, worldly praise to regain ...

“Performing the Music of Julius Eastman,” is on display in the UB Music Library in Baird Hall on the North Campus. Visitors can view a collection of photographs and texts on Eastman’s compositions ...

American composer Julius Eastman died in 1990 at age 49. While much of his work was largely forgotten for a time, it’s experiencing a rebirth, courtesy of a new generation of classical composers and ...

Julius Eastman’s ‘Femenine’ is performed at Monday Evening Concerts by an ensemble including artistic director Jonathan Hepfer on vibraphone, center, and cellist Seth Parker Woods, to his ...