Ennio Morricone at the Estadio Bicentenario de la Florida on Nov. 26, 2013. Courtesy: Gonzallo Tello/Wikicommons. Celebrated soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone died in Rome on Monday, July 6. He was 91. The famed composer scored iconic soundtracks for a number of spaghetti Westerns, most famously director Sergio Leone’s 1966…

SAN FRANCISCO — Like Watson and Crick, or Jekyll and Hyde, scientists often make breakthroughs when they collaborate. On Monday night, the stage at The Chapel became a laboratory where three of music’s most celebrated experimenters successfully extracted and mutated DNA before a sold-out crowd. Renowned minimalist composer Terry Riley and…

Photos: Shawn Robbins SAN FRANCISCO —  Watching John Zorn and Bill Laswell on stage at The Chapel in San Francisco Friday, a sentence James Baldwin wrote in his famous short story Sonny’s Blues hung in the air: “The man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing…