Composer

NEW YORK—Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as “Killer Joe” and “Along Came Betty," has died. He was 95. Golson died Saturday at his ...

At 98 years old, Phillip Springer is no ordinary musician. The award-winning artist has created music recorded by ...

Bach, Beethoven, Brahms: Remarkable things conveniently come to mind in trios, and these three ‘B’s are on the ...

This episode features Trinity Davis-Floyd, an eight-year-old author of children’s books and a survivor of two open-heart surgeries. ...

Kaija Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st ...

The challenges facing classical music institutions worldwide have been well-publicised. Declining audiences and tightening revenue streams are a ...

NEW YORK—Nicholas Lloyd Webber, the Grammy-nominated composer, record producer and eldest son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died Saturday ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Bramwell Tovey, the London-born composer and conductor who’s been the principal conductor and artistic director of the ...

LONDON—Monty Norman, a British composer who wrote the theme tune for the James Bond films, has died. He ...

ATHENS, Greece—Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the Academy Award-winning score for the film “Chariots of Fire” ...

You can fly. You can fight evil. You can mount adventures, study magic, con the FBI, save the ...

Because the repertoire of classical music is like a web or a maze that can be entered at ...

ROME—Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, ...

LONDON, U.K.—Music feeds the soul and is a universal language that can be enjoyed by people from all ...

A British composer for film and TV  died along with his wife Hannah Marcinowicz and their baby in ...

I first came across Richard Allain's music at one of Alistair Dixon's “New Lamps for Old” concerts with his ensemble ...

NEW YORK—Classical violinist and composer Michelle Ross works surrounded by paintings, as the only musician among a group ...

German musician Jörg Widmann says that for him, everything began with the clarinet. He started playing the clarinet ...

Arsentiy Kharitonov’s talent manifested from loving music so much that it gave him the stamina, and the will ...

In this day and age, Gustav Mahler (1860—1911) is known as one of the most important symphonic composers ...

Shen Yun Performing Arts performed to a full house Saturday afternoon at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the ...

This is the last month to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Donald Erb, an avant-garde composer of the 1960s and '70s who helped promote the acceptance of electronic music, ...