composer

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

When asked whether he saw himself as a composer who conducts or a conductor who composes, he simply laughed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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

The composer improvised his way through the initial stages of “Pray for a Storm,” his high-energy collaboration with famed drummer Stewart Copeland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The new musical style was already well under way by the time Mozart was a young composer, and he grew up in a Europe experiencing a sea change in cultural attitudes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Amid all the fireworks and fanfare sure to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial this weekend, it’s worth remembering how sculptors, writers, composers and more have channeled the American character in works from throughout this country’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

It was, however, Conlon’s attachment to the Austrian composer that led him to the many composers who could not flee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Everywhere you look in the 1880s, outside Bayreuth, you see composers carrying on as if nothing had happened.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall