By: Brian Berger

Out of Bedlamite shrieks, a Melvillean lucidity.

By: Brian Berger

He was a pioneering cultural relativist.

By: Brian Berger

Rhapsodic, recondite philosopher of music, hope, and Stalin.

By: Brian Berger

For the 4th: 20th-century America’s pre-eminent gangster capitalist.

By: Brian Berger

A composer who revels in a stern individuality.

By: Brian Berger

After Schoenberg & Stravinsky, what can a modernist composer do?

By: Brian Berger

The lucid anger & radical influence of a life too brief.

By: Brian Berger

Ambiguity in a world of song beyond hero and anti-hero.

By: Brian Berger

Hip-hop lyrics bust through to literature.

By: Brian Berger

This poet, scholar, and muse of the beats was never beat.

By: Brian Berger

“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”

By: Brian Berger

“The fingering… may here and there appear somewhat strange.”

By: Brian Berger

The musical redemption of a prodigal son.

By: Brian Berger

At Black Mountain College, he taught “to open eyes.”

By: Brian Berger

Poet, Jargon Society publisher, inspirator…