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composer

[kuhm-poh-zer] / kəmˈpoʊ zər /


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He can’t channel a direct personal relationship with the composer, as did Bud Powell and Barry Harris.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Time marched on, and in 1996, when the two-time Oscar winner was directing his first feature, “August,” he asked composer George Fenton if he would score the film.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

It was immortalized by the composer Johann Strauss II as “The Blue Danube,” but the views from today’s cruise-ship windows are heavy on the grey-brown hues of dried-up riverbeds.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Called out for bows, composer and singer fell into each other’s arms with the same ardor they had brought to the creation of their masterpiece.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

When she was twenty, she recorded composer Edward Elgar’s cello concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

In that note, Mr. Batiste also connects Mozart with Monk, citing how the two composers combined “melodic simplicity with staggering complexity” to “challenge convention while achieving universal appeal.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

At one point, an exasperated Wataka pulled out his phone to prove that the composers had been dead for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Despite the art form’s foreign origins, composers such as Antonín Dvořák, George Gershwin and Charles Ives have managed to convey our country’s spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Phil and at 67 having become one of the world’s most impressive conductors and composers, he is moving back to L.A., where he will become the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

Over the North Sea in Britain’s Victorian empire, artists, writers and composers were dredging Albion’s Arthurian roots, too.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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